favorite Sparre, 259;-advice from
the English Ambassador, Whitelocke,
on resigning her crown, 261;-inge-
nious explanation on the failure of
her attempt to make Gustavus a mere,
titular king, 262;-medal struck on
taking farewell of Sweden, ibid;—
singular mode of travelling; person
and dress, 263;-embraces the Ro-
man Catholic faith at Brussels, which
is equally praised and condemned,
264-account by her enemies, the
protestants, of her whimsical conduct
during divine service, in Sweden; of
her disbelief of the passage of the
Israelites over the Red Sea, 265;-
and of her reply to the Jesuits of
Louvain, 266;-attention, at Rome,
to the works of the great masters;
knowledge of sculpture, ibid;-jour-
ney from Rome into France, and mag-
nificent reception there by Louis XIV.;
arrival at Fontainbleau, 267 ;-ad-
mired by the men, but disliked by
the French ladies, ihid;-reported
esteem for the courtezan, Ninon, 268;
introduced when at Paris, by Menage,
to the French Academy, and all the
literati, ibid ;-fond of the amuse-
ments of youth, and conversation of
learned men, 269;--revisits. Italy,
but abruptly returns to France, ibid ;-
horrid murder of her chief equerry,
Monaldeschi, 269;-defended by
some lawyers and historians, among
whom is Leibnitz, 271;-her conduct
abhorred; departs from France, and
wishes to visit England, but not encou-
raged by Cromwell, 272;-returns to
Rome, and resigns herself up to the
arts and sciences; disputes with Pope
Alexander VII. and retires to a con-
vent, 273;-once more revisits Swe-
den, on the death of Charles Gustavus,
but so unfavourably received, that she
returns to Rome, 274;-her exertions,
with the Continental powers, on be-
half of Venice, ineffectual, 275;
interference in the affair of the Corses,
ibid ;-conditions on which the Senate
place her return to Sweden, 276;-
repairs to Hamburgh to await her ne-
gociations with the Diet, 277;-pro-
ving unfavourable, she renounces Swe-
den for ever, and goes back to Rome,
ibid;-witty observation to Bishop
Burnet about the Popes; last years

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of her life, 278;-admirable letter
on the revocation of the edict of
Nantz, ibid; - dies, it is said, with more
fortitude than Queen Elizabeth; re-
marks, 280;-death of Monaldeschi
haunts her last moments, ibid.
Church, established, more attention to
its music might promote its interests
among the people, 157

Cicero, his definition of "true glory,"
Tuscul. Quæst. Lib. iii. 54.
Clarke, Adam, of great authority among
the methodists; quotation from one
of his sermons on the punishment
of sinners, 161
Cleanthes, hymn of, 9-12
Clergy of the established church, not
sufficiently energetic and impressive
in their preaching, one cause of the
desertion of their flocks, 159;----
if enabled, by suitable incomes, al-
ways to reside among their flocks,
the established church might defy all
the attacks of its enemies, 174
Climate, its influence on character, re-
moved by education, 127

Cnidian Venus, supposed suggested to
Praxiteles by the exquisite beauty of
the Athenian courtezan, Phyrné; im-
mense sum offered for it by Nico-
medes, king of Bithynia, 62

Coke, Dr. his absurd account of Wesley,

Comedy, old Roman, changed by the

studied manners which the artful po-
licy of Augustus created, 126
Constantine, first Roman Emperor who

punished adultery with death, 84
Corinth, notorious for prostitutes, whom
it was the first to import from the
East, 61

Corneille, persecuted and terrified by
Richelieu, who compelled the French
Academy to 'censure his famous work
"The Cid," 125

Courtezans, Grecian, excelled in music,
63;-Athenian lived in a public man-
ner, and enjoyed the most enlightened
society, 65

Crusades, opportunity they afforded for
female heroism; examples, 95
Curates, resident,-not remarkable for
professional activity, 171;-inferior
incomes but weak inducements to ex-
ertion, 17%

DARWIN, Dr. scheme for amending
the climates of the frigid and torrid
zones, 145

Demosthenes, his amorous visit to Corinth,

61

Descartes boasts of the philosophical
spirit of women, 112;-the precursor
of Newton, put into the expurgatory
index at Rome, and persecuted in
Holland, for his philosophical tenets,
254-high regard for his personal
liberty; tutor of Queen Christina,
ibid;-much envied-his death, 256
Dicæarchus, his reflections on the tra-
veller's approach to Athens, 68
Diodorus Siculus, his account of the
Egyptian tribunal for trial of the
dead, 18

Druids, office of among the Celts, 14

EDWARD I. his destruction of the
Welsh Bards, 15
Egypt, the cradle of the arts and sci-
ences, 19

Elizabeth, her knowledge of the Greek,
Latin, and modern languages, 99
Ellsley, his remarks on John, chap. xi.

v. 44; on v. 22, John xx., p. 45
English Law, its voluminous extent and
insuperable intricacy, 236
Episcopacy, prejudices of the common
people against, one of the causes of
the growth of Methodism, 130-133
Eponina, wife of Julius Sabinus, her
wonderful conjugal attachment, 86
Esquire, qualifications for the title of,

184

Eulogies, origin of, 6;-when and how
applied to men as well as to deities,
12-13;-among Chinese, Phoenicians,
Arabians, Grecians, Romans, and Celts,
13-14;-effects of in Germany, Gaul,
England, Scotland, and Wales, 15;-
used by Scandinavians, Danes or
Normans, 16;-in North and South
America, 17

Evangelical Magazine, object of, and
quotation from, 135

FANATICISM, remarkable instance of,
in a Methodist, 133
Fine Gentleman, character of, in days of
Addison and Pope, 182;-of the pre-
sent day, 184;-his career; turns
senator, 186-187;-contrast between
the fine gentleman of Greece and of
England, 188;-character of the latter

HABEAS Corpus Bill planned during
the minority of Louis XIV. but aban-

doned by the ministry of that day, 123
Harrington, Lord, his remarkable coolness
as an ambassador, 227
Harrison, his description of the literary
court of Queen Elizabeth, 100
Heroism, conjugal, remarkable instances
of, among Roman women, 84-85
Hilarion de Costi, his work on the female
sex, 101

Homer, hymns of, 8-9
Horace, hymns of, 12
House of Commons, how aspersed by
zealous reformers; its true condition,
50-51;-sometimes to be governed
by a single patriotic member
Hymns, origin of, 6

INCUMBENTS, resident, spiritual ac-

quaintance with their parishioners, 172
Ingratitude, impossible to legislate against
it, 206

Innovation, when unreasonably opposed,

213

Institutes of Justinian, publicly read in
the 14th century by a lady of Bo-
logna, 97

JANE of Naples, how unjustly praised
by Brantome, 101

Patriotism, one of the greatest efforts
of, 48

Paulina, wife of Seneca, her conjugal
fidelity, 85

Pearce, Bishop, commentary on Matt.
v. 46, chap. xxvii., p. 35;-on John,
v 22, chap. xx., p. 45
Pericles, first receives Solon's laws con-
cerning bastards, and then repeals
them, in favour of his own natural
children, 198

Phænicians, eulogies of, 13
Phyrne, the famous Athenian courtezan,
so rich from prostitution as to offer to
re-build the walls of Thebes, destroyed
by Alexander, 62;-stood as a model
to Praxiteles and Apelles, for their
greatest works in painting and sculp-
ture, 62-had a statue of gold at
Delphi, between two kings, 67
Picture of the times from the 7th to 11th
century, 91
Pindar, hymns of, 9

Plato, his opinion of Aspasia, 66;-his
works, objects of attention among
poets, lovers, and women of Italy, at
the end of 14th century, 98
Plutarch, his account of the severe
treatment of the Persian women, 57;
his opinion of Aspasia, 66

Poets, of the North and South of Europe,
compared English preferred to the
Italian, 127

:

Press, fettered in Spain and Portugal,

and the people thus restrained from
every effort of mind, 125

RICHELIEU, his conduct to Corneille,
125;-his meanness towards Grotius,
250

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Romans, their use of eulogies, 14;-
primitive, their right of life and death
over their wives, 70;—vigilant atten- |
tention to the preservation of the
morals of their wives, 72 --practice
of lending their wives to others, to
have children; striking instances of,
as also among the Greeks, 75-76
Roman Tables, supposed borrowed from
the laws of Solon; their injustice to-
wards Bastards, 199

Ruga, Spurius Carvilius, assertion doubt-
ed, that he was the first among the Ro-
mans, during 520 years, who availed
himself of the right of divorce, 74