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Such are all moments of emotion: the judgment is no more; and a
pleasure like that of dreams is experienced, when that which is ex-
traordinary appears possible, and the chains which bounded the reigu
of existence are rent asunder. In the tumult and rapid succession of
sensations, which seize a soul that is vehemently stimulated, danger,
even without an object, becomes a pleasure. In calmer states of
mind, apprehension seems a painful feeling: but at play, at the
instant of great decisions, it enhances the glow of delight. This
wound-up state becomes so necessary to those who have experienced
it, that sailors, when they have been long settled on shore, will go
to sea again in order to experience it. It is difficult to play at the
great game of glory, and therefore a green cloth and a pack of cards
supply its place. The agitation of the soul is that treacherous want
to which most men will deliver themselves up, without thinking of
the consequences of this intellectual intemperance. They will ha
zard the fortune which maintains them, dare the battle which maims
them, or invite the martyrdom which awaits them, in order to acquire
those moments of strong present impression-free alike from recol-
lection and from foresight-which give a sort of instantaneity to ex-
istence, and of omnipresence to life.'

P. 316. Study, far from depriving life of the interest which it
needs, has all the characters of passion, except that which consti-
tutes its misfortune-dependence on fortune and on man. Study
offers an end which is accessible in proportion to the effort made; and
fowards which progress is certain, and subject neither to vicissitude
nor to disappointment. Study has new objects perpetually to present,
and events to produce which are sufficient for thought. Days which
are similar by continuity of misfortune, or by sameness of vacuity, are
transformed by study into amusive and varied epochas. At one period,
comes the solution of a lang investigated problem; at another time, a
new beauty starts, like a nymph of Armida, from beneath the mossy
rind of an antient author. Every day adds a new province to the em-
pire of thought; and the Student can never weep because there are no
more worlds to invade and to conquer. Instruction is but the mid-
wife to curiosity. Every attainment creates a new ambition. The
ascent of each fresh hill on his progress exhibits prospects of a wider
range, and excites him to wander through the new vales of idea
which are expanded before his efforts and his hopes.'

Many of the Baroness's observations respecting conjugal fe-
licity deserve notice: but her remarks concerning children are.
less novel and forcible. Is she without a family? The gene-
ral tenor of her instructions, however, which are designed to
recommend a purity of domestic morals that is more common in
Switzerland, in Geneva, and in England, than in the Catholic
countries, cannot but operate favourably on the females in
Paris, and may one day place her, like the Theano of Pytha
goras, among the models of an improving sex.

Jaylor.

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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214.

Alumine from Schemnitz, exami-
nation of, 577.
Alum, natural, from Miseno, ac-
count of, 580.
America, North, antient Indians
of. See Indians. See also Unit-
ed States. See Washington.

South. See Surinam.
Andrews, Mr. James Petit, con-
tinues Mr. Henry's history of
Great Britain, 241.
Apology for the Bible, by the
bishop of Landaff, examined,
303. Objections brought for-
wards, 305.

Apples all derived from the Crab.

293.
Arabians, their poetry consider.

ed, 43. Specimens of, 45.
Aramic language, essay on, 6.
Arms, heraldic, established in fa-
milies long before the Norman
conquest of England, 259.
Armorial bearings hereditary
in this country before the time
of the Crusades, 261. Coat
of arms given to Capt. Cook,
in 1785, 264.
Atmosphere, reflections on the
composition and decomposi-
tion of, 7.

Aklus Gellius translated, 449.
Aylmer, bishop of London, a
good cudgell-man, 244

B

Ball, Mr. his method of cultivat-

ing and preparing opium from
English poppies, 139.
Barking of trees. See Re barking.
Barn-floor, moveable, new inven-

tion of, 141. See also Upton.
Belsham, Mr. censured for his
unfavourable account of the
government of India, under
Mr. Hastings, 193.
Benevolence, &c. essay on, as op-
posed to principle, 6.
Book, a poem from the works of
the Rev. S. Bishop, 381.
Botany. See Withering.
Botany Bay Eclogue, 299.

Hardships in a voy-
age to, by Palmer, Skirving,
&c. 236.
Bucknall, Mr. his system of orch-
arding, 138. Of re-barking
trees that have been peeled by
sheep, ib.

Burke, Mr. his late political writ

ings criticised, 334-336.
Burrow, Mr. Reuben, his ob-
servations, &c. relative to the
measurement of a degree of
longitude in the East Indies,
105.

с
Casar, (Julius,) his death, &c,
from Thomson's translation of
Suetonius, 309.
Camps, useful remarks relative
to the arrangements of, 98.
Carlsbad, chemical inquiry inta

the mineral springs there, 581.
Carthage and Great Britain com-
pared, 542.

Cat's eye, inquiry into the nature
of this mineral, 574.
Chambonas, M. his Letter to

Louis XVI. giving an account
of the last agonies of a go-
vernment supported by cor-
ruption, 276.

Chevalier,

Chevalier, M. his description of
the Plain of Troy controvert-
ed, 142.

Christianity, the downfall of,
predicted, 545:
Chryso-beryl, analysis of, 574.
Chrysolite, analysis of this gem,
574. See also Olivine.

Cicero, account of, from Sueto-

nius, 310.

Cicisbeo, female, that character
delineated, 280.
Cimolite, chemical account of this
species of clay, 579.
Cold, the influence of, on the
health of the inhabitants of
London, 408.

Convention, national, of France,
the principles of its admini-
stration developed, by Mr.
Necker, 539.
Cook, Captain, coat of arms given
to him in 1785, 264.
Copper-mines at Fosse du Sapin
described, 553.
Corday, Charlotte, anecdotes
and character of, 279.
Corn, new method of preserving
in the ricks from rats, 455.
CORRESPONDENCE with the Re-
viewers, p. 119. Col. Ferrier,
on Dr. Stahl's pretended suf-
ferings in the inquisition at
Goa, 119. R. G. T. con-
cerning Mr. Ruggles's history
of the poor, 238. W. R. re-
lating to the occasional con-
formity of the clergy, 239.
B. Jones, relating to the pi-
racy of the magazines which
copy articles from the M.R.240.
Mr. Capel Lofft, relative to his
edition of Gilbert's Law of
Evidence, 360. Dr. Aikin,
relating to the Description of
Manchester, 479. W. A. re-
lating to a calculation in his

Injuries of the Public, the
cause of Famine,' ib. P. H.
concerning the iniquity of
Banking, 480. Others of less
note, ib.

Cotton-Mills in Lancashire, &c.

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Debt, national, plan for the pay.
ment of, 104.
Derbyshire, pleasing general view
of, 136.

Devonshire, remarkable British
monuments in, 2.

Directory, Executive, of France,
characters of each of the five
members of, 320.

Distilleries defended, in regard
to their effects on health, mo-
rals, &c. 464.
Dutens, M. his enlargement of
his 66
Origin of the Disco-
veries attributed to the Mo-
derns," but which have mostly
been known to the sages of
antiquity, 410.

E

Eager, M. his method of reliev

ing cattle that have over-eaten
themselves, on clover, &c. 139.
Eagle, the assumption of, in the

arms of the German govern-
ment, explained, 258.
Earthquake. See Gray.
Eden, Sir Frederic Morton, his
State of the poor announced,
361.

Electricity, animal, (or relating
to muscular motion,) disco-
veries in, 47. Observations
relating to the theory of ani-
mal excitement, ib. Electric
. doubler, 49. Multiplier of elec-
tricity, 50. Experiments on
metallic substances, 51. Divers
configurations, how produced,
52. Effects produced by elec-
tricity on permanently elastic.
fluids, 53. Extraordinary ef--
fects of thunder-storms, 54.
Action of electricity on the
-vegetable kingdom, 55.

England,

England, the proper constitu-
tional defence of, against the
enemies of the country, foreign
or domestic, pointed out, 68.
Erskine, Mr. his sentiments on
the state of Ireland, 198. On
the origin of the French war,
200. On Mr. Burke's late
writings, 202.
Exeter, literary society formed
there, 1. Essays by the mem-
bers of, published, ib.
Eyes of birds, remarkable in
stance of their quickness of
discernment at an immense
distance, 407.

F

Falconry, antiquity of that amuse-

ment, 2.

Fame, literary, essay on, 5.
Farms, large ones recommended,
456.

Fire. See System.
Fire-stone, analysis of, 573.
Forms, prescribed for religious
worship, utility of, 317. Pro-
gressive formation of those of
our liturgy, 318. Observa-
tions on, 319.

Fox, Mr. his Ovidian Latin
verses, from the Muse Etonen-
ses, 21-22.

France, publications relating to
the revolution in, 195, 224,
276,293, 320, 404, 465, 537,
540, 555.

French, change of manners in
that people, in consequence of
the revolution, 277. Their

new

280.

calendar disapproved,
Account of the bulletines
of the Convention, 281. Le-
cointre's character, ib. That
of Lanjuinais, &c. ib. & seq.
Frend, Mr. his plan for an im-
proved school for arithmetic,
algebra, &c. 440.
Fuseli, Mr. lines addressed to him
on his gallery of Milton, 387.
G.
George, Mr. his hymn on the pu-
rification, &c. 19.
Gessner, Solomon, the poet, his

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119.

Gold, native, accounts of the late
discovery of, in Ireland. See
Lloyd. See Mills.
Government, civil, its proper

ends, 25-36. Notions of,
as entertained by the Ame-
rican Indians, when first vi-
sited by Europeans, 26. Dr.
Robertson's notions of,contra-
verted, 27. That of Kings,
merely of civil appointment,
30. Political resistance of the
Subject discussed, 33. Oppo-
sition to rightful government
distinguished from resistance,
24. Imperfections in the British
constitution pointed out, 72.
Formsof government classified,
163. Antient forms of, among
the American Indians, ib.
Forms and customs of, among
the Greeks and other antient
nations, 164. The constitu-
tion of England detailed from
the year 1547, to the time of
Edward VI. 242. Democracy
investigated and condemned,
396.

H

Hanno, the Carthaginian, his fa-
mous voyage on discovery,
compared

compared with that of Capt.
Cook, 541.
Hastings, Mr. his government of
India defended, 193.
Hatchet, Mr. his experiments on
the Corinthian molybdate of
lead, &c. 408.
Reberden, Dr. his account of the
influence of cold on the Lon-
doners, in the winters of 1795
and 1796, 408.
Hebrides, savage manners of the
inhabitants of those islands, in
the time of James VI. 245.
Hereford, the cathedral there de-
scribed, 73. Sketches towards
a topographical history of the
county, 292.
Herodotus, his testimony relating
to the prodigious host brought
by Xerxes against the Greeks,
defended, 503.

Home, Everard, his Croonian
Jectore on muscular motion,
406. His observations on the
changes which blood under-
goes when extravasated into
the urinary bladder, 410.
Homer's Iliad, Wolt's edition of,
completed, 523.

Hook, Major. See Adultery.
Hep-plant, when first introduced

into England, 292. Remarks
on the culture of, 293.
Horses, instructions for fasting,
as food for man, 256. Our
prejudices against eating horse-
flesh encountered, 257.
Hunter, Dr. his new method of
raising wheat by transplanta-

tion, 455.

Husbandry, remarks on the drill

system, 393. Difference be-
tween that and the Tullian
method, 394. Conjectures on
the possible use of the latter,
in future time, 395.
Hyacinth, inquiry into the pro-
perties of this precious stone,

577.

I and J

India, poems on the gods of, 4.
See also Hindostan, Hastings,
Belsham.

Indians of America, their notions
of religion before their inva-
sion by the Europeans. See
Government.

Indies, East, publications relative
to, 108, 176, 193.
Inoculation, of the small-pox,
observations relative to, by
Mr. D. Sutton, 98.
Inquisition, holy, at Goa, its abo-
lition, 119.

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Invasion, plan for the defence of
this country against, 338.
Essay on the defence of the
coasts, 458.

John I. ch. v. ver. 7. critical ex-
aminations relative to, 493-
'I he text rejected, 497.
Ireland, country of, its evil state
in the time of Queen Eliza-
beth, 244.
Observations on
the present state of, 339.
Prince of Wales proposed as
governor of that island, ib.
Accounts of the native gold
found in Ireland, 407.
Ireland, Mr. his publication of
manuscripts forged under the
sanction of Shakspeare's name,
explained, 111. His vindica-
tion of his conduct, 238.

jun. his confession of the
fraud, &c. 4.
Iris, of the eye, essay on, 3.

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Inge, apology for that character, Labourers, in husbandry, in-

7.

quiry into the state of, 37.
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