The Edinburgh Review (Volume 158-250) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1813. Excerpt: ... Trochaic tetrameter, how usually divided, both in tragedy and co- medy, xix. 92. See Poison's Hecuba. Troketon, John de, quoted respecting the word schawaldouru, xiv. 139. Trommsdorf, M., his discovery of the new earth in the beryls of Johangeorgenstadt, iii. S07. Trongon du Coudray, a victim to the climate of Cayenne, xiv. 237. Troops levied from agricultural occupations the most expensive, v. 11--modes of arranging them by the Greeks and Romans, 471-- present modes, 472. Trophies, in the church at the fortress of St Petersburg, xiv. 174. Tropical climates, their salubrity chiefly dependent on the dryness of the air, xvi. 6,5. Trotter, J. B., his letter to Viscount Southwell on the Catholics of Ireland, xiv. 60--a collection of trash in it, 62. Troubadours, favourite ones, decorated by the ladies with crowns of peacocks' feathers, xiv. 137. Troy, site of, remarks on the conjectures of Monsieur le Chevalier respecting, i. 56. -- GelPs topography of, vi. 257--site of, 258. 274--situation of the Grecian camp of Homer at, 260--plain of, 25s--Bryant denies the existence of the war of, 259--Rhattean and Sygsean promon- tories, 263--on the battle of the 21st book of the Iliad, 266--rivers Scamander and Simois, 264. 266. 272--Mount Gargarus, 272-- Ida, 271--Xerxes's journey to, 272--tombs near, 275.280.261. Truck and Darter, in Russia, remark on, xiv. 178. Truncations, the hypothesis of, iii. 46. Trusts, public, the sale of, defended, xvii. 262. Truth, no criterion of Poetry, ii. 422--should be often repeated, hr. 210--remarks upon Dr Beattie's essay on, x. 192, 193--import- ance of distinguishing necessary from contingent, xii 203--ety- mology of that term, xvii. 194--reflections on the criterion of, m different ages, xviii. 216. Trutter, Mr, his journey in Africa, viii. 432. Tscherchasho...