people's right to freedom now fully
admitted, 74. Contrast between the
Allies of 1792 and those of 1814, 75.
Homage of the continental potentates
to freedom, 76. Heresy of English
Tories, 77. Apology for Tory grudg
ings, 78.

These originate chiefly in
ignorance, 79. Antagonist principles
greatly relaxed since the first day of
the Revolution, 81. Systematic haters
of liberty, 82. Tendency of recent
changes to increase of liberty, 83.
Influence of peace, in diminishing pa-
tronage, and removing pretexts for de-
laying Reform, 85. Poland and Nor-
way- -state of these countries a great
drawback on the pleasure excited by
the contemplation of the present pro-
spects of the European commonwealth,
86-88.

Sounds, remarks on,in relation to Beauty,
i. 71.
Southey, Robert, Esq., Poet-Laureate,
&c. Review of his 66 Roderick the
Last of the Goths," iii. 133. Testi-
mony to the great merits of the poem,
Faults of the poet's style, 134.
Too uniformly solemn, emphatic, and
verbose, 135. Too bitter on the Moors,
136.

133.

Questionable choice of subject,
137. Outline of the story, 138.
Moorish invasion-flight of Roderick,
139. Roderick's agony of mind-but
is at length aroused from it, and begins
to preach his crusade, 140, 141. First
sight of his conquered realm, 142.
Meets with a heroine, 143. Progress
of his mission, 144. Pelayo — meet-
ing with Florinda, 145. Night journey,
146. Striking scene of Roderick and
Florinda, 147. Roderick's interview
with his mother, 151. Recognised by
his Argus, 152. Beautiful group of
Pelayo's family, 153. Calm dawn of
comfort, 154. Count Julian, and his
child, 155. Adosinda's revenge, 158.
Death of Julian, 159. Roderick - the
last of his battles, 160. Conclusion,
162. General remarks on the poem,

161.

"Sovereign People, The," remarks upon,
in connection with America, iv. 211.
Space, metaphysically considered, iii.

343.

Spaniards, their oppression on the natives
of the Caribbees, ii, 196.

"Specimens of the British Poets: with an
Essay on English Poetry. By Thomas
Campbell." Review of, ii. 249. See
Campbell.

Spirit of Music, Song of the," iii. 229.
Spring, beauty of, i. 38.

66

Squire and the Priest, The," by George
Crabbe, notice of, iii. 69.

Staël, Madame de, Review of her In-
edited Works, published by her Son,
iv. 487. General remarks on her work,
487. Character of Mad. de Staël's
parents, 488. Her own early train-
ing and precocity, 489. Progress of
her genius, 490. Her sensibility, gene-
rosity, and kindness, 491. Her strong
affection for her father, 492. Anecdote
illustrative of it, 493. Her strong re-
ligious impressions, 494. Mad. de
Staël not a foundress of philosophy
except, perhaps, in France, 496, 497.
Her besoin de Paris, 498. Her lia-
bility to ennui, 499. Eulogium on
her writings, 500.
Staël, Madame de.

Review of her work

on Literature, i. 79. Her character,
and scope of her work, 79, &c. Notices
of, by M. Simond, iv. 469. Extracts
from her work, i. 83. 118. 121. 124.
133. Her theory of Perfectibility, i.
85, &c. Grounds of the doctrine, 86.
Strictures on, 88. Hopelessness of
its attainment, 97, &c. Supposes the
Greeks to be the first inventors of
literature, 106. Her views of the
natural progress of literature, 106.
Her manner of accounting for the
purity of taste characterising the earliest
Greek poetry, 107. Remarks on her
picture of the parting of Brutus and
Portia, 115. Her views of the amelio-
rating influence of Christianity on so-
ciety, 118. Her views of Italian litera-
ture, 121.
Remarks on affectation, on
character, and taste, 122. Her opinion
of English writers, 126. Strictures on,
127. Her estimate of Shakespeare, 129.
Her opinion of the wit and humour of
the English, 130. Question as to its
justice, 181. Her praise of English
Her complaints of the
prolixity of English writers, 133. Her

poetry, 132.

remarks on English Parliamentary

Debates, 134.

Staël, Madame de. Review of "Con-
siderations upon the Principal Events
of the French Revolution," ii. 55.
Great interest of the work, 55. Some
notices of Madame de Staël as a writer,
56.

General character of her history,
57. Its defects, 58. Disadvantages
arising from contemporary history, 58.
Their cause, 59. Impossibility of
anticipating great events, or tracing
their causes, 60, &c. Evils of making
theory the basis of history, 62. Madame
de Staël's leading objects in writing
her history, 63. Her theory of govern-
ments, 64. Her mistake in taking
England for her model, 65. The
opinion of the powerful the only
source of stability in governments, 67.
Sources of the French Revolution, 69.
Administration of Necker, 70. Of
Calonne, 71. His dismissal, 71. His
recall, 72. The States-general, 72.
Oppressive privileges of the nobles, 73.
Pretensions of the new noblesse, 74.
Struggles of the Tiers Etat, 75. Con-
vocation of the States, 76. Fatal vacil-
lations of the court, 77. The duplicity
of the court party, 78.
Its effects, 79.
Mirabeau La Fayette Sieyes, 80.
Infatuation of Aristocrats and Doctri-
naires, 81. Madame de Staël witnesses
the horrors of the 5th of October, 82.
Progress of the Revolution, 83. Dis-
solution of the First Assembly, 84.
Insane emigration of 1791. Character
and fate of Louis XVI., 86. Madame
de Staël's theory of popular excesses,

87.

The Directory, 88. Napoleon
Bonaparte, 89, &c. Madame de Staël's
personal impressions of, 90. Her con-
versations with, 91. He establishes
the Consulate, 93. His insolence and
falsehood, 94. His persecution of
women and authors, 95. Etiquette of,
96.

His gift of sleep-arrogance, 97.
Treaty of Chatillon, 98. First abdi-
cation, 98. Conditions of Bourbon
restoration, 99. Bonaparte's return
from Elba, 100. Madame de Staël's
notions of England, 101. Her general
merits, 101.

"Steam-boat, The. By the Author of
'Annals of the Parish,'" &c., iii. 497.
517.

Steele, notice of, i. 174.

Stewart, Mr. Dugald, his " Philosophical
Essays," i. 25. His theory of Beauty,
28, &c.
Review of his "Account of

587

the Life and Writings of Dr. Reid,
late Professor of Moral Philosophy in
the University of Glasgow," iii. 322.
General remarks on the inductive
philosophy of Bacon, 322. Experiment
and observation, 323. Bacon's philo-
sophy directed chiefly to experiments,
of which Mind cannot be the object,
324, 325. Metaphysics not expe-
rimental, but merely the arrangement
of things previously known, 326, 327.
Utility of the science, 328. Observa-

tions on Materialism, 329. Imperfec-
tion of Stewart's defence of Dr. Reid,
330. No principle of credulity or
veracity, 331. Stewart's fundamental
laws of belief, 332. Disbelief in the
existence of matter not absurd, or in-
conceivable, 334. Idealists neither mad
nor wicked, 336. Cause and effect--
liberty and necessity, 337.
Stewart, Dugald, Esq., F.R.S. E.,
Emeritus Professor of Moral Philo-
sophy in the University of Edinburgh,
&c. Review of his " Philosophical
Essays," iii. 373. Remarks on the
declension of metaphysical studies, and
its causes, 373–375. The results of
close reasoning and investigation too
easily accessible, 376. Excellence of
the "Essays," 377. Controversy
with Mr. Stewart as to Observation
and Experiment, 379. Reply to his
objections, 380. False analogy of
anatomy, 381. No parallel in astronomy,
382. Metaphysics give no power, 383.
Experiment always gives power, 384.
No proper experiments on Mind, 385.
Manners not philosophy, 386. Prin-
ciple of association, 387. Association
always known and acted on where
useful, 388, 389. No proofs of the
useful application of mental philo-
sophy, 390, 391. Question considered,

"Where are we to look for the fruits
of metaphysical investigations?" 392,
393. Great merit of Mr. Stewart's
writings, 394.

Stoics, philosophy of the, its influence on
the Romans, i. 114. Revival of their
maxims, i. 117.

Strafford, Lord, strictures on the proceed-
ings of Parliament in his case, ii. 21.
"Sublime and Beautiful," Burke's Trea-
tise of the, i, 19, &c.

Sublimity and Beauty identical, i. 73,
&c.

Substance, metaphysically considered, iii.

340. 351.

Suicide, frequency of, in Rome, i. 116.

Review of the
General charac-

Το

Swift, Jonathan, D.D., Dean of St.
Patrick's, Dublin,
Works of, i. 158.
ter of his writings, 167. Remarks
on the Life, prefixed to his Works,
168. Too favourable to the per-
sonal character of Swift, 169. Swift's
selfish change of politics, 170. His
own admission, 172. Acknowledg-
ment of his motives for changing,
173. His libels on his first associates,
174. A courtier with the Tories, 176.
His mercenary politics, 177. His
vanity and arrogance, 179. His poli-
tical friendships, 180. His party afflic-
tions, 182. His Irish animosities, 185.
His mean solicitations, 184. His per-
sonal character, 185. Tyrannical and
overbearing, 186. Servile, 187. His
heartless cruelty to women, 188.
Varina, 189, &c. To Stella, 191, &c.
Some account of Stella and Vanessa,
193, &c. Catastrophe of Vanessa, 199.
Her Letters, 201, &c. Catastrophe of
Stella, 205. Swift's melancholy old
age, 206. Character ofhis writings, 208,
&c. A great master of invective, 210.
"His Tale of a Tub," 210. "History
of John Bull," "Martinus Scriblerus,"
and Gulliver's Travels," 211, &c. His
"Polite Conversation," Directions to
Servants," "Journal to Stella," 212.
Character of his poetry, 212. His im-
itations of Horace" Cadenus and
Vanessa," 213. His Rhapsody of Poetry
and Legion Club, 214. Extracts from,
215, &c. His libel on the Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland, 221. Character of his
genius and style, 223. His peculiar
humour and irony, 225. Extracts from
his writings, i. 173. 182. 189. 190, 191.
192, 193. 196-198. 199-201, 202,
203, 204, 205, 206.212, 213. 216, 217,
218, 219, 220, 221, 222.
Switzerland, description of scenes in, by
Lord Byron, iii. 190, &c. Admirable
description of a first view of, iv. 455.
Pictures of Swiss towns and costumes,

457.

"Switzerland, or a Journal of a Tour
and Residence in that Country in the
Years 1817, 1818, 1819. By L. Si-
mond." Review of, iv. 451. See Simond.

T.

"Tale of a Tub," Swift's, notice of, i.
209.

439.
439.

440.

Review of, iii. 51. See Crabbe.
"Tales of the Hall, By George Crabbe."
Review of, iii. 77. See Crabbe.
"Tales of My Landlord," review of, iii.
Conjectures as to authorship,
Superiority of novels to epics,
These novels better than any
others, 441. Character of the author's
genius, 442. His political bias and
his fairness, 443. General character of
the author's novels, 444. Their occa-
sional defects, 445. "Guy Mannering,"
446. The Antiquary," 447. "Tales
of My Landlord," 448. "The Black
Dwarf," 449. "Old Mortality," 451.
Last persecution of the Covenanters,
452. Its gloom relieved by the under-
currents of life, 453. Public events
affect few individuals, 454. Old friends
with new faces, 455. The author's
treatment of the Covenanters, remarks
upon, 456, 457. Cruelties of govern-
ment not to be palliated, 458.
on both sides, 459.

Faults

Tartar tribes, notices of, ii. 218, &c.
"Task, The,” Cowper's, origin of, i. 401.
Taste, Alison's Essays on the Nature and
Principles of, i. 3.

Taste, difference of national, i. 41. 257.
Influence of our civil wars, and the
Restoration, upon our national taste,
ii. 288, &c.

Taste, no standard to be fixed in relation
to, i. 75.

Taylor, Jeremy, notices of, i. 87. 100.
132. 134. 161, 162.

Theatre, the, forbidden by Quakers, iv.
236. See Quakerism.
"Theodoric, a Domestic Tale: with
other Poems. By Thomas Campbell."
Review of, ii. 445. See Campbell.
Thomson, i. 132. Critique on, by Camp-
bell, in his Specimens of British Poets,
ii. 273.

Thornhaugh, Colonel Francis, Mrs.
Hutchinson's portrait of, i. 451.
Thunder, considered in relation to Beauty,
i. 33.

Tillotson, Dr., remarks of Bishop War-
burton on, iv. 362.

Time and chance, their co-operation ne-
cessary to form a good and a stable
government, iv. 126.
"Tiranide, La," of Alfieri, i. 380.
Toleration, William Penn's admirable
plea for, iv. 262.

"Tom Jones," remarks of Sir James
Macintosh on, iv. 518.

Tombs of the kings in Egypt, iv. 331.

Tories of England dissatisfied with the
restoration of the Bourbons, iv. 77.
Strictures upon, 78.
Such sentiments

must originate in ignorance, 79. Tories
and Whigs, 151.

Tory ministers-eulogium on their con-
duct in the affairs of France, iv. 51.
Trade, maxims of, among the Quakers,
iv. 245. See Quakerism.
Trafalgar, battle of, some particulars re-
lating to, iv. 285.

Transactions, American, and the Edin-
burgh Review, iv. 191.
"Trials of Margaret Lindsay.

By the
author of Lights and Shadows of
Scottish Life."" Review of, iii. 497.
"Troilus and Cressida," Shakespeare's,
remarks upon, by Mr. Hazlitt, ii. 328.

V.

"Valerius, a Roman Story." Review of,

iii. 497.

Vane, Sir Henry, account of his execu-
tion, i. 498.

Venality of the people in any country only
an argument for urgent remedies, iv.
98, 99.
Some remedies recommend-
ed, 100. British people not generally
open to the charge of, 108.
Vendée, La, Wars of. Review of Me-
moirs of Madame de Larochejacque-
lein, ii. 104, &c. Description of the
country, 111. Character of its popu-
lation, 112. First revolution-unpre-
meditated, 113. Originated with the
peasantry, 114.
Their extraordinary
success, 115. M. de Lescure joins the
insurgents, 116. His family impri-
soned, 117. Perils and deliverance,
Great but undisciplined levies,
Spread of the insurrection, 127.
Check at Nantes, 128. Success at
Chatillon, 129. War of extermina-
tion, 131. Guerilla exploits, 150. Re-
treat across the Loire, 134. Last vic-
tory of the insurgents, 136. Death of
M. de Lescure, 138. Dreadful close
of the conflict, 139. General amnesty,
143. Executions at Nantes, 144.
Final amnesty, 146.

118.

121.

Veracity and credulity, in connection
with metaphysics, iii. 331.
"Vicar of Wakefield," noticed, iii. 501.
"Virgin Martyr," Massinger's, Pepys'

opinion of, i. 486.

"Vivian," Miss Edgeworth's tale of, re-
marks upon, iii. 414.

Voltaire, i. 86. 134. Cognomen of "The

589

of our great divines, 337. A giant in
literature, 338. His personal history,
339. Series of his publications, 340.
His staples, paradox and vituperation,
341. His notion of the necessity
of future rewards as an incentive to
virtue, 342. Strictures on this doc-
trine, 343. His doctrine of the in-
completeness of moral obligation unless
in obedience to the will of a Superior,
344. Effects of his insolence, intoler-
ance, &c., 346. His ferocity towards
unbelievers, 348. Injurious influence
of his violence on the cause of truth
and religion, 350. Scope and preten-
sions of the present publication, 351.
The same intolerant spirit pervades his
private letters, 352. His treatment of
his brother clergymen, 354. Instanced
in the case of South and Jortin, 355.
His tone towards Leland, 356. His
feelings on Jortin's death, 357. His
insolence to Middleton, Priestley,
Johnson, &c., 358. His absurd dis-
content, 359. Character of his wit,
359. Possessed force and originality,
Remarks on Clarendon, 361.
His views of Tillotson, &c., 362. Ob-
sequiousness of Bishop Hurd, 363.
General observations on the work,
363.

360.

Wars, probable perpetuity of, considered
as an argument against the doctrine of
Perfectibility, i. 93. No final cure for,

94.

Washington Irving, his "Memoirs of the
Life and Voyages of Christopher Co-
lumbus. See Columbus."
"Washington, Life of," Marshall's, cri-
tique on, in the Edinburgh Review,
vindicated from the charges of Mr.
Walsh, iv. 189.
Watt, James, notice and character of, iv.
551. Remarks on the steam-engine,
551. Watt a benefactor to mankind,
552. Extent and variety of his attain-
ments, 553. Character of his conver-
sation, 554. Manners and personal
character, 555. Suitable close of his
life, 556.
Waterloo and Wellington, ii. 100. Lord
Byron's description of the muster for
the battle of Waterloo, iii. 184.
"Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years since."

Review of, iii. 426. Peculiar charm
and character of the work, 427. Con-
tains a gallery of Scottish portraits, and
painted from the life, 428, 429. Out-
line of the story, 430. Baron of Brad-
wardine- Fergus Vich Ian Vohr, 431.

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Waverley his introduction to the
Highlands, 433. Romantic visit to

the cave of Donald Bean Lean, 494.
A night in the cave, 435. Morning
by Highland Lake, 436. General ex-
cellence of the work, 437.

Wealth and intelligence may exist with-
out independence, iv. 102, 103. Pur
suit of wealth by the Quakers quite
inconsistent with their repudiation of
self-gratification, 234.

Weber, Henry, Esq. Review of his edi-
tion of the " Dramatic Works of John
Ford," ii. 284.

"Westminster Review," notice of, iv.
154.

Wharton, Lord, Swift's libel on, i. 221.
Whartons, the, notice of, i. 166.
Whig Royalists, their duty defined, iv.

127.

Whigs, the old Constitutional, of Eng-
land, their position considered, iv. 117.
Whigs and Tories, 151.

"Widow, The," by George Crabbe, no-
tice of, iii. 100.

Wilberforce, Mr., interesting notice of,

iv. 287.
"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: a
Novel. From the German of Goethe."
Review of, i. 257, &c. See Goethe.
Will of the Sovereign-The question
discussed, "Do we recognise the indi-
vidual will of the Sovereign in the
British Constitution?" iv. 22, 23.
Wilson, testimony to the agreeableness
of his writings, iii. 501.
Windham, The Right Hon. William, Re-
view of his Speech on Mr. Curwen's
Bill for securing the Independence and
Purity of Parliament. Review of, iv.
89. General subject considered, 89.
The natural influence of property, 90.
Such influence inevitable - and not
injurious, 91. Corrupt influence of
property
how indicated, 92, 95.
Corrupt or rotten boroughs. 94, 95.
Antiquity no real defence of abuses, 96.
Abuses in the representation not an-
cient, 97. Venality in the people
renders some remedy the more ur-
gently necessary, 98, 99. Some reme-
dies suggested, 100. The spirit of
freedom ought to be diffused, 101.
Wealth and intelligence do not neces-
sarily make a people independent, 102,
103. Greater power of the people
now than formerly, not owing to in-
creased wealth but greater intelligence,
104, 105. The power of the people
more than equal to any government, if

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