THE Eclectic Review, MDCCCXV. JANUARY—JUNE. NEW SERIES. VOL. III. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ ου την Στωικην λεγω, ούδε την Πλατωνικην, ή την Επικούρειον τε CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOSIAH CONDER, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. SOLD ALSO BY DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE; AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, AND INNES, EDINBURGH. CONTENTS TO VOL. III. Abernethy's Introductory Lecture for the year 1815, exhibiting some A Faithful Narrative of the Re-passing of the Beresina by the French Alison's Sermons, chiefly on particular Occasions Alpine Sketches, comprised in a short Tour through parts of Holland, 398 Butler's Essay on the Life of Michel de L'Hôpital, Chancellor of France Chaplin's Sermon, occasioned by the Detection and Punishment of Cri- minals guilty of Robberies and Murder, in the Counties of Essex Colquhoun's Treatise on Spiritual Comfort Delambre's Abrégé d'Astronomie Astronomie Théorique et Pratique Eighth Report of the Directors of the African Institution Eustace's Letter from Paris, to George Petre, Esq. Fry's Sick Man's Friend, containing Reflections, Prayers, and Hymns Hill's Essay on the Prevention and Cure of Insanity Hogg's Pilgrims of the Sun, a Poem Hopkinson's Religious and Moral Reflections Hull's Doctrine of the Atonement, an essential Part of the Christian Labaume's circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia Leftley's Sonnets, Odes, and other Poems, with Ballads and Sketches, List of Works recently published 110, 318, 429, 533, 638 London's, the Bishop of, Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of London Marsh's, Dr. Course of Lectures, Part III. On the Interpretation of 522 the Bible 79 Memorial on Behalf of the Native Irish More's, Mrs. Hannah, Essay on the Character and Practical Writings More's, Mr. Hannah, Sacred Dramas Original Lines and Translations Penn's Prophecy of Ezekiel concerning Gogue, the last Servant of the Church; his Invasion of Ros, his Discomfiture and final Fall Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year Playfair's Outlines of Natural Philosophy, being Heads of Lectures de- Ramond's Travels in the Pyrenees, translated from the French Traduit de l'Anglais, par M. P. S. Girard Scott's Lord of the Isles; a Poem Select Literary Information . Shepherd's Paris in Eighteen Hundred and Two and Eighteen Hundred Sismondi, de l'Interêt de la France à l'Egard de la Traite des Nègres Wardlaw's Discourses on the principal Points of the Socinian Contro- Wathen's Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812 to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena Whitaker's Sermon, preached in the Parish Church at Lancaster, at the primary Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Chester Wilberforce's Letter to his Excellency Prince Talleyrand Perigord, on Wilson's (Susannah) Familiar Poems, Moral and Religious Wordsworth's Excursion, being a Portion of the Recluse; a Poem 577 236, 369 447 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1815. Art. I. Journal of a Voyage from Okkak on the Coast of Labrador to Ungava Bay, westward of Cape Chudleigh; undertaken to explore the Coast, and visit the Esquimaux in that unknown Region. By Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch, Missionaries of the Church of the Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren. Le Fevre, 2, Chapel place. Seeley. 1814. THE natural enmity of the human heart to the things of God, is a principle, which, though it find no place in the systems of our intellectual philosophers, has as wide an operation as any which they have put down in their list of categories. How is it then that Moravians, who, of all classes of Christians, have evinced the most earnest and persevering devotedness to these things, have of late become, with men of taste, the objects of tender admiration? That they should be loved and admired by the decided Christian, is not to be wondered at: but that they should be idols of a fashionable admiration, that they should be sought after and visited by secular men; that travellers of all kinds should give way to the ecstacy of sentiment, as they pass through their villages, and take a survey of their establishments and their doings; that the very sound of Moravian music, and the very sight of a Moravian burial-place, should so fill the hearts of these men with images of delight and peacefulness, as to inspire them with something like the kindlings of piety;all this is surely something new and strange, and might dispose the unthinking to suspect the truth of these unquestionable positions, that "the carnal mind is enmity against God," and that "the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of VOL. III. N. S. B |