an inferior, 419;
value of the proper application of, 420.
RABBINICAL Stories, specimens of, i. 120-126; scripture quoted to
support, 126.
RANTZAU, founder of the great library at Copenhagen, stanzas by, i. 5.
RANZ DES VACHES, effect of, i. 274.
RAWLEIGH, Sir Walter, composed his History of the World in prison,
i. 36; assisted in that work by several eminent persons, ib.;
variations in orthography of his name, iii. 111, note; author's
account of his character, 112; Gibbon's and Hume's observations on,
113; cunning practised by, ib.; anecdotes of, 114; account of his
return from Guiana, 115, 116; his attempt to escape, 118; betrayed
by Sir Lewis Stucley, 119; narrative of his last hours, 124-129; his
History of the World, the labour of several persons, 131; note on
Mr. Tytler's remarks on the author's account of, 135, note; his
extravagance in dress, 407; notice of Oldys's life of, 499.
RAYNAUD, Theophilus, his works fill twenty folios, and ruined his
bookseller, 542; notice of, 543; his curious treatises, ib.
REALISTS, a sect of Scholars, i. 312.
REFORMATION, origin of, iii. 142.
REFUTATION, a Catholic's, i. 349.
REGENERATION of material bodies, iii. 286, 287.
RELICS of Saints, bought, sold, and stolen, i, 239; treatise on, by
Gilbert de Nogent, ib.; of St. Lewin, ib.; of St. Indalece, 240; of
St. Majean, ib.; of St. Augustin's arm, ib.; flogging of, ib.;
miracles performed by, ib.; miraculously multiplied, 241; anecdote
of a box of, presented by the Pope to Prince Radzivil, ib.;
Frederick the Wise, a great collector of, 242; phial of the blood of
Christ sent to Henry III., ib.; fall in price of, ib.; deceptive,
243.
RELIGION, state of, during the Civil Wars, iii. 433; illustrative
anecdotes of, 434-436; contest between Owen and Baxter on, 437;
confusion of, ib.; a colt baptised in St. Paul's Cathedral, 439, and
note; anecdotes, 439-441; noticed by George Wither the Poet, 442;
ordinance of the Parliament to rectify the disorders in, 443.
RELIGIONISM distinguished from religion, iii. 239.
RELIGIOUS Nouvellettes, a class of very singular works, i. 363;
account of one, 364; notice of one discussing three thousand
questions concerning the Virgin Mary, 365; Life of the Virgin, 367;
Jesuits usual authors of, 368; one describing what passes in
Paradise, ib.; the
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