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From the unremitting efforts which are making by the emissaries of infidelity, to diffuse its pernicious principles throughout the community, the advocates of virtue, the friends of revelation, the supporters of social order, and those who believe in the existence of a God, are called upon to rally round the throne of eternal Truth. To these points, during the ensuing year, particular attention will be paid, in the pages of the IMPERIAL MAGAZINE ; of which some propositions, and other articles in the January number, may be considered as specimens. In this volume there is one trifling irregularity, which has unavoidably occurred, but which, it is hoped, will not again so glaringly return. When the portraits, with which it is ornamented, were prepared for publication, it was intended to accompany them with the memoirs of the individuals in the same numbers, in which they appeared, or in those which immediately succeeded. But it has occasionally happened, that the information expected was not attainable until a longer time had elapsed than had been taken into calculation. It is on this account, the volume being bound, that the plates appear to be distributed without any strict regard to order. INDEX TO VOLUME IV. COL. COL. ACUPUNCTURATION, ............... 173 Coffin, a remarkable, Discovery of,... 477 Affection, filial, instance of, ........ 1089 Commercial Reports, 103, 200, 295, 392, Allan Cunningham's Poems, reviewed, 554 488, 583, 696, 791, 887, 984, Allegory, American, ...... 264 1079, 1175 Alleghany, the Prophet of the, ...... | Concession, Advantages of, ......... 24 Anniversaries of Religious Institutions, | Conference, the Methodist, ......... 860 &c. .... 574, 686, 778 | Conscience, on. Conscience, on, ................... 536 Antiquities, American, ............. 1166 Coversation, on, .................. 548 Apocalyptic Number, ....scovi.... 573 Courage, Instinctive, .............. 70 Aretino Leonardo, Memoirs of (conti Crucifix and Gold Chain of Edward the pued,)................132, 213 Confessor, account of ...... 1177 Argumentum ad Hominem, the,...... 1090 Curran, Anecdote of,.............. 729 Astronomy, Lecture on,.........., 18, 115 D Dale, David, Memoir of, ........... 1068 Balloons, Observations on, ....... 29, 918 Dancing, Strictures on, vindicated, 163, 265, Bear and the Child, a story, ........ 1206 309 Bible Society, the Naval and Military, Davy, Sir Humphry, Memoir of, .... 1148 Proceedings of, ........... 284 Deliverance, an Extraordinary,...... 726 Bishopsgate, Antiquities of the Ward Delicacy necessary in performing Acts of, .....................1198 of Kindness, ............. 844 Bosworth's Introduction to Latin Con Demerára, Religion in, ... 806 struing, reviewed, ........ 1138 | Discount, on, .................... 473 Bottle washed on Shore,. ........... 480 Discourse in Commemoration of the Brindley Mr. Memoir of, &c......... 651 First Settlement of New EngBritton's Cathedral Antiquities, review land, .................... 72% ed, ....... *. 181 Disputation, ......................: 903 Buchanan, Rev. Claudius, Memoir of, 153 Divine Revelation, on the necessity of, 715 254, 350 | Domestic Hours, .................. 1034 Byron and Wordsworth, on the respec Dowson's Abridgment of the Youth's tive Merits of, ........ 416, 628 Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary, reviewed, ...... 868 Drams, on giving them to Porters, &c. 619 Dream, a Political, ... 540 Cain, a Mystery, reviewed, ........ 380 Campbell's Travels in South Africa, re viewed,.......... 281, 457, 557 Care, Dissertation on,.... Eastern Powers, on the Disturbed State Catherine, Empress of Rassia, short of the, reviewed,.......... 1056 History of, ..............1192 Education, Eulogy on the Blessings of, 61 Charity, Christian, defined, .......... Edwards's Tour of the Dove, a Poem, Charter, Translation of an Old, ...... 152 reviewed, ................ 955 Chaucer's Arcita and Palamon, modern Effort, on Unanimity of, ............ 626 ized by Lord Thurlow, re Eggs, on the Preservation of, ....... 620 viewed, ................. 466 Essays, Chemical, 25, 227, 346, 510, 603 Chemical Experiment, ............. 480 --Moral and Literary, 147, 338, 599, Chest in the Corner,..522, 662, 740, 1014 806, 1020 Circumstances, a Comparison of,..... 1196 on Modern Poetry, remarks on 530 Classical Collector's Vade Mecum, re Eternal Election, Remarks on, vindiviewed, ................. 1138 cated, ................... 312 land, ... nor.rrrrr OOSINI110.. ..... 441 F COL. the, reviewed, ............ 865 reviewed, ............... 944 Junius Brutus, justified in condemn- 478 ing his sons, ........ 242 - censured, ........... 497 K. Life and Character of, ...... 238 L. Laplanders and Rein Deer, in England, 52 - further Account of, ....... 370 Lawrence's Lectures on Physiology, reviewed, ....... 668, 765, 958 Kenyon, ...... 720 - from the Rev. Samuel Leigh, Missionary, extract of a,.... 750 -s of Julius, reviewed, ........ 944 Literature, Science, &c. Gleanings from, 96, 190, 286, 388, 482, 579, 690, 785, 883, 977, 1073, 849 1168 581, 787, 885, 981, 1077, 1171 Living Poets of Great Britain, Memoirs of,....751, 816, 905, 1005, 1094 963 869 Lunatic Asylum, near Stone, Account of, ......... ............. 937 M. Machinery, Ingenious, Specimen of,.. 1165 Mahomet and the Duke of Guise, Di- alogue between, ..... 609 Mahometan Capital, the, ........ 330, 410 Malicious cruelty, Display of,........ 725 Mason's Poetical Essays, reviewed, .. 867 M Comb's School of the Sabbath, a 836 Poem, reviewed, .......... 863 Memoirs of a Life in Pennsylvania, re- viewed, ....... 747,937, 1002, 1003 .. 783 Mission, South Sea, ............... Missionary Intelligence, ............ 825 Montgomery's Songs of Zion, reviewed, 774 Mutation, a Fragment, ............. 616 Distress in, .......... 690, 788 Mutiny, Narrative of a, ............ 516 N. Narrow Escape, .................. 1013 1126 from the Study of, ......... 1044 Locke, .............., of, ....... ........ 382 .............. 1075 2.25 News P. 3 Petrifaction, 180370 449. 532, 733, 840, .............. 2837 790 COL. COL. 493 Scriptures, improper use of the, in con- Scriptures, improper use or U versation, censured, ....... 1037 546 Seasons, Changes of the,............ 1212 739 and the Dake of Kent, re- 379 Shelley, Barton's Verses on the Death of, reviewed,............. 1061 Shops, on giving Liquor in, ......... 832 Slander, &c. an Essay on, reviewed, 91 Somerset, Anecdote of the Duke of, .. 70 Speech, a Remarkable, ............ 1114 Spiritual Recreations in Affliction, re- viewed,.................. 377 Stocks, Price of, &c. 102, 198, 293, 391, 487, 582, 694, 788, 886, 983, 1078, 1174 392, 488, 582, 696, 788, 886, 982, 1078, 1174 835 Sunday Schools, regular Attendance at, 616 a hit at, ........... 650 936 Surinam, Slavery in, ... T. 940 Thomas's Sermons, reviewed, ....... 1122 Angelica, reviewed, 1249 required in each, ....... 501 Triple Aim, the, reviewed, ..... Unitarianism, Remarks on, review- ......... 284 • 486, 693, 887 . .. 1255 | Vital Christianity, on the Progressive - Increase of, .............. 248 w. 75 Walch, Rev. J. Anecdote of,......... 830 Walker's Thuanas, reviewed,........ 1059 - Protestant Historical Cate- chism, reviewed, ......... 952 ing,.................. 134, 219 Watmough's Sunday School, a Poem, reviewed, ................ 864 964 - Discovery by, ........ 977 | Wolfe, Major-General, Memoir of, ., 176 COL. 1 COL, Essay on the Talents, Cha My Soul is dark, by Lord Byron, ..., 449 racter, and Education, of,... 1216 National Benevolent Institution, on the, 171 says on, 9, 105, 201, 297, 395, 489, Night Piece, a,................ 171, 738 . . 1029 On Jordan's Banks, by Lord Byron, .. 450 ...... 840 .. 1233 1234 1031 735 739 536 271 173 Reflections in a Burial Ground, ..... 843 .......... 533 Secret Sinners, on, ................ 536 .......... 1027 | She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron, 449 55 The Old Soldier, .................. 974 733 | The Withered Primrose, ........... 1033 275 To a Friend on his Marriage, ........ 841 his Daughter, 1205 840 843 | Winter, ............ ......... 169 734 Stanzas in admiration of,.... 532 173 | Young Lady, Lines addressed to a, .. 61 ........ to the,................... 1118 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIST OF PLATES IN VOL. IV. COL. 153 1219 1148 370 441 595 651 1235 869 1068 1159 1253 938 971 1065 .......... 1075 |
