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CONTENTS.

o ANO

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1. Jan. 1. Reflections for New Year's Day ...........

11. .......... 2. Death of General Wolfe ..............

III. ......... 3. Cicero .........................................

4. Roger Ascham ..........

5. Character of the British Soldier .........

6. On the Pleasures arising from true Taste........

7. The Groves and Forests of the Tropical Regions.

8. Galileo .........

IX. ....... 9. Nelson ................

10. Linnæus ...............................

XI. .......... 11. Sir Hans Sloane ...,

lans Divane .......................................

XII. ......... 12.

12. Maximilian I. ......................

XIII. ........ 18

18. The Music of Nature ...........

XIV, .... 14. Destruction of the Alexandrian Library ......

xv. ....... Queen Elizabeth ....

16. Death of Sir John Moore ............

XVII. 17. On Man .........

XVIII. ....... 18. Mount Jura ......

19. Congreve .......

XX. ..., 20. Howard the Philanthropist ........

XXI. ........ 21. Fate of Louis XVI. and Family

XXII. ....... 22. The Migration of Birds ...............................

XXIII. ....... 23. William Pitt ..............

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XXIV. ....... 24. Adrian.......

XXV. ........ 25. Description of Russian Manners -- their Dwarfs,

&c. .........................

XXVI. ....... 26. A Squire of Queen Anne's Time..................

XXVII. ...... 27. Lord Hood..........

XXVIII. ..... 28. The Ocean an Image of Eternity ............... 38

XXIX. ....... 29. A Thunder-storm in the Highlands.............

XXX. ........ 30. Decollation of Charles I..........................

XXXI. ....... 31. Churches on the Continent .......................

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XXXII. FEB. 1. The Study of Natural History...........

XXXIII. ..... 2. Mount Vesuvius ............

XXXIV. ...... 3. St. Blaise.................................................

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xxxv. .. FEB. 4. Remembranco ...........

XXXVI. ........ 5. Cato ............

XXXVII. ...... 6. James II. ......

XXXVIII. ..... 7. Characteristics of the French and English

Rural Population .....

XXXIX. ....... 8. Morning Hymn of Praise and Gratitude .....

XL ....... 9. Remarks on Ancient Rome

XLI. .......... 10. The Husbandman

XLII. .......... 11.

11. The Common Lot

XLIII. ......... 12.

12. Lady Jane Grey and her Husband ..

XLIV. ......... 13.

13. William III.

XLV. .......... 14.

14. Captain Cook

XLVI. ......... 15. Shakspeare's Literary Character ...........

XLVII. ........ 16. Melancthon

XLVIII. ....... 17. Herbert Knowles........

XLIX. ......... 18. Luther ...........................................

L. ............. 19. Beauty ................................................

LI. ............ 20. The Approach of Spring.............

LII. ........... 21. The Horrors of a Siege, as exemplified in that

of Zaragoza.................

LIII. .......... 22. James Barry .........

LIV. ........... 2 23. Sir Joshua Reynolds ....................

LV. ........... 24. Battle of Pavia..........

LVI. ........... 25. Sir Christopher Wren ..................

LVII. .......... 26. John Philip Kemble ...............

LVIII. ......... 27. John Evelyn ............................

LIX. .......... 28. Of the Attraction of Cohesion ..........

LXIV. .........

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LX. MARCH 1. The Spectator ...........

.... 2. Horace Walpole ....................................

LXII. .......... 3. Robert Adam .........

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LXIII. ......... 4. Ratification of the Pennsylvania Treaty

5. The Anglo-Saxons ...........

LXV. ..........

6. The Writings of Oliver Goldsmith .............

LXVI. ......... 7. State of the Arabs at the Coming of Mahomet

LXVII. ........ 8. The Duke of Bridgewater ........................

LXVIII. ....... 9. Lord Capel's Execution ...........................

LXIX. ......... 10. On Novels and other Works of Fiction.........

LXX. ......... 11. Recollection of Youthful Days

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LXXI. ......... 12. Effects of Temperance in prolonging Life...... 99

LXXII. ........ 13. Belisarius .........

4. Admiral Byng.......................

LXXIV. ........ 15. Julius Cæsar......

LXXV. ......... 16. A Naval Ode, by T. Campbell ............. 104

LXXVI. ........ 17. St. Patrick ........

LXXVII. ....... 18. Edward, King of the West Saxons..............

LXXVIII. ...... 19. Eclipse of the Moon

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Lxxix. ....... 20. Sir Isaac Newton...........

LXXX. ......... 21. On Light and Colours............

LxxxI. MARCH 22. Napoleon at Fontainebleau .................. 111

LXXXII. ........... 23. Kotzebue ............

LXXXIII. ........... 24. Of the Specific Gravity of Bodies ......... 114

LXXXIV. ........... 25. The Hermit .........

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Lxxxv. .......... 26. Of Heat and Cold .

LXXXVI. .......... 27. The Value of Good Advice ..

LXXXVII. ......... 28. Sir Ralph Abercrombie

LXXXVIII. ...... 29. Battle of Towton

LXXXIX. .......... 30. The Defence of Acre

xc. ................ 31. The Elements of Hydrostatics .............. • 124

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XCI. ...... APRIL 1. On the Circulation, &c., of the Blood ...... 127

XCII. ............... 2., The great Naval Victory at Copenhagen... 128

XCIII. ............. 3. The Captive ..................................... 129

XCIV. .............. 4. Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Drake ...... 130

5. On Sound, and its Velocity ...........

XCVI. ............. 6. Napoleon in the Zenith of his Power ...... . 134

XCVII. ............ 7. Liberty and Slavery .............................

XCVIII. ........... 8. Petrarch .......

XCIX. .............. 9. Lord Bacon................

10. Effect of the Human Eye on Animals...... 139

CI. ............... 11. Youth and Summer ........

CII. ............... 12. Galgacus, the General of the Caledonii, to

his Army..............

CIII. .............. 13. The Falls of the Missouri ......................

CIV. ............... 14. Otway .............

14. Otway ..............................................

cv. ............... 15. Flowers and Insects ................. ......... . 146

cv. ...............16. Buffon........

CVII. ............ 17. Dr. Franklin ........

CVIII. ..........

18. The Talking Lady .............

19. A Parent's Advice to his Children ..... . 151

20. Admiral Blake ...........

21. Alexander the Great ...........

22. Henry VIII. ........

CXIII. .... 23. The Village Clergyman..

24. Châteaubriand's Description of the Valley

. of Jehoshaphat

cxv. ......... .... 25. Cowper

26. Iceland and its Inhabitants ...........

27. Sir William Jones ..................

CXVIII. ........... 28. Of the Nature and Uses of Gold

CXIX. ............. 29. The Fine Arts ...........

CXX. .............. 30. General Washington .. ......................

CXVII. ............ 27. Dr W

CXXI. ...... MAY 1. May-Day ...............

CXXII. ............ 2. Hamlet's Instruction to the Players ....... 172

CXXIII. ............ 3. Habitations of the Ancient Britons......... 173

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CXXX. ...... 10. The battle

cxxiv. MAY 4. Barthelemy .......

cxxv. ....... 5. Account of Massieu, a Deaf and Dumb Pupil

of the Abbé Sicard .............................. 175

CXXVI. ...... 6. Battle of Prague ...............

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CXXVII. ..... 7. The Attraction of Gravitation ...................... 178

CXXVIII. .... 8. The Lark-a Parable ..........

CXXIX, .... The Sabbath Morn

.. 10. The Battle of Lodi .....................

CXXXI. ...... 11. The Earl of Chatham .............

CXXXII. ...... 12. Description of New Orleans ....................... 185

CXXXIII. ..... 13. John, King of England ............

CXXXIV. ..... 14. Henry IV., King of France .............

cxxxv. ...... 15. The Discovery of America by Columbus ....... . 188

CXXXVI. ..... 16. Same Subject continued .............

CXXXVII. .... 17. The Substantial English Farmer's Wife ......... 195

CXXXVIII. ... 18. Graphic Description of the Mediterranean ...... 197

CXXXIX. ..... 19. Stage-Effect the Ruling Passion of the Fair

CXL. ......... 20. Americus Vesputius

CXLI. ........ 21. Battle of Cannæ ..

Cannæ ....................................

CXLII. ....... 22. Battle of the Granicus ...

CXLIII. ...... 23. The Duke of Marlborough

CXLIV. ...... 24. Edward the Black Prince .

cxlv. ....... 25. View of Palermo .....

CXLVI. ...... 26. The Man of Ross

CXLVII. ...... 27. Character of Sir John Moore ......

CXLVIII. ..... 28. Edmund Burke, on the Impeachment of War-

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CXLIX. ...... 29. King Charles IŤ. restored ............

CL. .......... 30. Alexander Pope e .............................

CLI. ......... 31. Antony's Funeral Oration over the Body of

CLII. . JUNE 1. Thoughts on Horsemanship ........................ 217

CLIII. ....... 2. Of the Nature and Uses of Hydrogen ............ 218

3. William Caxton ..........

4. Character of the Turks ........................... 221

5. A Summer Evening ..................

CLVII. ... 6. Lord Anson ..............

CLVIII. ...... 7. Bishop Warburton and Dr. Johnson

CLIX. ....... 8. Reflections of Alexander Selkirk

CLX. ......... 9. On Rivers ...........

CLXI. ........ 10. The Cause and Nature of the Tides ............

CLXII. ....... 11. Troy ..........

CLXIII. ...... 12. Filial Affection exemplified ...

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CLXIV. ....... 13. The Unbeneficed Old Bachelor..

CLXV. ....... 14. Battle of Marengo and Friedland ..

CLXVI.. ...... 15. On History and Chronology ...........

CLXVII. ...... 16. A Thunder-Storm ........

CLXVIII. .... 17. The Influence of Poetry on the Mind and

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