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INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS.
I.
page 1
Education-Foreign Colleges for the Education of English
Catholics
1.-Remarks on the Heirship and Venality of Judicial
Offices in France -
ib.
2. On the Presents and Personal Solicitations to
Foreign Judges
36
39
3.-On the Limits of the Right of Courts of Judicature
to interpret Laws
42
4. On the Separation of Courts of Law and Equity,
peculiar to English Jurisprudence
5.-On the Redactions and Reforms of the French
Customary and Statute Law-and on the Code
Napoléon
-
46
6. On the Order of Avocâts in France, and its Ex-
tinction at the French Revolution
7.-On the English Law of Property
51
56
8.-Recommendation of a course of Study of the Eng-
lish Law of Real Property -
61
THE WORKS OF THE REMINISCENT:
IV.
ESSAY ON HOUSES OF INDUSTRY-Notice of Mr. Pitt's Bill
for the Relief of the Poor
66
V.
ESSAY ON IMPRESSING SEAMEN-Character of the Earl of
Sandwich
68
VI.
HIS LORDSHIP'S SPEECH, IN DEFENCE OF HIS ADMINISTRA-
TION OF GREENWICH-HOSPITAL-Notice of Lord Erskine's
Speech on that subject-Character of his Eloquence
70
VII.
LETTER ON JUNIUS
73
VIII.
COMPLETION OF MR, HARGRAVE'S EDITION OF COKE ON
LITTLETON-Character of Littleton and Coke
IX.
108
HORÆ JURIDICÆ SUBSECIVE-Notice of some foreign juris-
consults
115
X.
EDITION OF MR. FFARNE'S ESSAY ON CONTINGENT RE-
MAINDERS- -Some Account of Mr. Fearne
118
120
2.-Lord Hardwicke-Lord Camden-Lord Thurlow
-Lord Rosslyn-Sir Wm. Grant-Lord Eldon—
Lord Kenyon
132
5.-Miscellaneous Observations on the Characters of
Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Burke
169
177
187
191
193
Part I. Containing an historical and literary account of the
original text, early versions, and printed editions of the
Old and New Testament; or the sacred books of the Jews
and Christians.
Part II. Containing an historical and literary account of
the Koran, Zend-Avesta, Kings, and Edda; or the books
accounted sacred by the Mahometans, Parsees, Chinese,
and Scandinavian nations.
XV.
SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL
REVOLUTIONS OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE-Remarks on the
French Revolution
XVI.
page 212
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CONFESSIONS OF FAITH OF
PROTESTANTS: Articles in which all Christians agree 221
XVII.
HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE MONASTIC ORDERS OF THE
CHURCH OF ROME
223
XVIII.
ESSAY ON THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME,
RESPECTING THE GENERAL PERUSAL OF THE SCRIPTURES
IN THE VULGAR TONGUE BY THE LAITY
226
XIX.
ESSAY ON THE WORK INTITULED ROMAN-CATHOLIC PRIN-
CIPLES IN REFERENCE TO GOD AND THE KING;" pub-
lished in 1680
229