http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3Dserial%20essay Results for your query: expand=subject;f1-subject=serial essay Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-06185.xml sir , http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-06185.xml Sat, 19 Jun 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04008.xml THERE was, if I mistake not, an officer among the old Ro- mans, called the Censor. It was his business to note the moral devi- ations of his countrymen, to check and to punish them. I believe very little success attended this officer in the administration of his duties. From some defect in the agents or objects of censure, this employ- ment seems, in general, not merely to fail of producing good, but ac- tually to exasperate the evil which it purposes to cure. This is poor encouragement for a lover of man- kind to assume this illustrious pro- vince, and yet I cannot but think, that mild and seasonable animad- versions on the errors and follies of our neighbours, may sometimes be of use. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04008.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml I KNOW not whether my pen will afford me any amusement in my present condition. I have been little accustomed to the use of it, but I have nothing else to do, and my pre- sent situation stands in need of being beguiled of its cares. I am without books, and am not permitted to leave my chamber. I have, therefore, no alternative. This, or nothing is my lot. I cannot consent to pass a life of inactivity. But what shall I write? There is something whimsical in this undertaking. For a man of my ha- bits, at the age of sixty, to sit down to the writing desk! Nothing would have been less expected a month ago, and nothing but the unfortunate cir- cumstances in which I am placed would reconcile me to it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml Tue, 03 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml GO thy ways for an honest crea- ture. I cannot explain to thee, in an intelligible way, the true nature of my condition; or perhaps I might be disposed to gratify thy curiosity. I have no need to dread from thee any imputations on the honesty of my proceeding. Casuists have, long ago, settled that point. By casuists such as thou, it would never be brought into question. That action may be wrong, which law has thought proper to prohibit and punish. He that per- petrates it may be truly criminal. The action by which we incur punish- ment is unjust, but what is to be said of the means by which we elude the penalty? No doubt an highwayman is criminal, but after the commission of the deed, he endeavours to elude his pursuers. Do these endeavours enhance his guilt? When taken, and dungeon-doomed, and fettered, does duty restrain him from breaking his chains, and restoring himself, by the exertion of dexterity or strength, to liberty? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml Tue, 10 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml I AM sitting here employed in this way, from a notion that it is the only practicable employment: It is the only exercise, as I suppose, within my reach. This perhaps is an error. In one sense my sphere is a small one. My observation is limited to an area of twelve feet square; but surely it becomes me to examine every thing within this space. If it be small, the examination is proportionably easy. If our means are few, the motives seem to be enhanced for making the best use of them of which they are capable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml Tue, 17 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml I HAVE talked with Kate upon the subject of this chest. Her infor- mation, as I expected, is not very satisfactory. When she first applied for this house it was untenanted. Its recent inhabitants had been destroyed by the reigning malady. The scanty furniture that was possessed by them, had been partly sold by the landlord for the payment of arrears. The rest, such as beds and clothes, had been buried or burnt, on account of the in- fection which they were supposed to have imbibed. The seeming worth- lessness of this trunk, and the difficulty of removing it, had rescued it from the general wreck. In the terms which he made with Kate, the landlord al- lowed her to act, with regard to this piece of furniture, as she thought proper. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml Tue, 24 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml MISS De Moivre did not fail to remind me of my promise when I next saw her. I repeated that the task which she assigned to me, was arduous. It was perhaps impossible to say what species of employment was most beneficial. Some might be mentioned from which unquestionable benefits would flow. It is worthy of a rational being to weigh with scru- pulous exactness; to chuse that only which is intrinsically preferable. This, however, is your own province, not mine. I will point out one method, and state the recommendations that belong to it. Judge you whether it outgoes in excellence all others. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml Tue, 31 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml BAXTER, after taking some re- freshment, retired to rest. In no long time, however, he was awakened by his wife, who desired him to notice a certain glimmering on the ceiling. It seemed the feeble and flitting ray of a distant and moving light, coming through the window. It did not proceed from the street, for the cham- ber was lighted from the side, and not from the front of the house. A lamp borne by a passenger, or the attendants of an hearse, could not be discovered in this situation. Besides, in the latter case, it would be accom- panied by the sound of the vehicle, and, probably, by weeping and ex- clamations of despair. His employ- ment, as the guardian of property, naturally suggested to him the idea of robbery. He started from his bed, and went to the window. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml Tue, 03 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml PAGES have been filled with ideas suggested by a broom-stick. I have a volume, under that title, in my possession. The writer follows the train of ideas suggested by the sight of this useful instrument, and is led by it on many an instructive and amusing ramble. His speculations, indeed, are bound together by no other affinity than this. It is curious to observe what various and momen- tous themes take their rise in his un- derstanding, from this humble source. He first discusses the nature of that principle, by which the sight of a broom-stick is made productive of a series of thoughts in the mind. In the course of this speculation he raises a scheme of his own on the ruins of that system which changes man into a pair of bag-pipes, and makes out the contexture of his body to be nothing more than a congeries of fiddle-strings. He endeavours to prove, that the hand is lifted and planets impelled by the same power, and that this power is thought. Having settled this point, he proceeds to describe the thoughts t... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml Tue, 10 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml I AM disappointed, though the cha- grin of disappointment has perhaps been justly incurred by me, since my expectations were set on irrational foundations. I have opened, and find —nothing! I will take, however, a child's vengeance on the cause of my vexation. I will hew the chest to pieces, and convert the fragments into fuel. Henceforth it shall be my busi- ness to forget it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml WELL, old as I am, I find I am reserved for an extraordinary fate. “Nil desperandum” was ever my motto; and yet, in the present case, I suffered appearances to snatch it from me. For a time, I thought my search was at an end—that the trunk was useless for any purpose but that of kindling a blaze. When black Will came to cut my wood, I desired my good woman to bring me up his axe for three minutes, and I proceeded to break up the chest. It is nothing, thought I, but useless lumber. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04289.xml THE second period of Miss De Moivre's life was still more worthy to be exhibited. She was now become a woman, and was preparing to return to her father, when a letter from him informed her of a change in his plans. He was considerably capricious, and had roamed about so much, that he found it impossible to remain long in one place. Add to this, a sudden scheme that occurred to him of ex- ploring the southern side of mount Jura, as a botanist. Every thing must yield to the gratification of his darling passion. He immediately re- solved to sell his property in St. Do- mingo and return to France, and of this, timely information was received by his daughter. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04289.xml Tue, 07 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04320.xml WHAT a series of calamities is the thread of human existence? I have heard of men who, though free themselves from any uncommon distress, were driven to suicide by reflecting on the misery of others. They employed their imagination in running over the catalogue of human woes, and were so affected by the spectacle, that they willingly resorted to death to shut it from their view. No doubt their minds were consti- tuted after a singular manner. We are generally prone, when objects chance to present to us their gloomy side, to change their position, till we hit upon the brightest of its aspects. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04320.xml Tue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04352.xml IT is amusing to remark in what va- rious points of view the passion of love has been considered. I was lately perusing an author*, whose theory * Darwin's Zoonomia. Eratomania. had more novelty, and wore an air of greater paradox than I have hitherto met with. He is a physician who makes a threefold classification of diseases. The two first classes are fashioned on a new, but on no fantasti- cal model. If there be any truth in the customary distinctions, these are suf- ficiently within the province of the medical art. Many of the articles that constitute the third class have hitherto been assigned to the mo- ralist. This writer, however, very gravely arranges them in his cata- logue, annexes a technical descrip- tion, and prescribes the “modus medendi.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04352.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04383.xml TO be sure! Yet retire for a while: I shall not leap out of the window to escape you. I am weary of my present habitation, and should, in a few days, have put myself within your power. I have not the least objection to this visit, though, I must own, it was somewhat unex- pected. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04383.xml Tue, 28 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-09291.xml (To be continued). http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-09291.xml Sat, 18 Sep 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-08464.xml IN commencing a work of this kind, it has always been usual to give the reader some acquaint- ance with the person of the au- thor, and to inform him respect- ing the cause of his thus publish- ing his lucubrations to the world; but it has not, I think, been con- sidered as necessary, that the ac- count thus given, should exactly correspond with the truth. Where the case is otherwise, an author would find a disadvantage in dis- closing his real situation, not to be recompensed by any fame or reputation he might derive from his writings. For my part, were I to comply with the uniform ex- ample of my predecessors, I should, I frankly confess, be un- der the necessity of somewhat disguising the truth; but as I in- tend that the sincerity of my cha- racter shall be the principal cha- racteristic of these papers: the public will excuse me in dispen- sing with a rule, which owes its sole authority to custom, without any foundation in reason. It is not my intention to be totally concealed from view. I shall from tim... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-08464.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-09537.xml THE Rhapsodist, though he not unfrequently derives half the materials of his thoughts from an intimate acquaintance with the world, is an enemy to conversati- on. It is indeed, in his fondness for solitude, that the singularity of his character principally con- sists. He loves to converse with beings of his own creation, and every personage, and every scene, is described with a pencil dipt in the colours of imagination. To his strong and vivid fancy, there is scarcely a piece of mere unanimated matter existing in the universe. His presence inspires, being, instinct, and reason into every object, real or imagined, and the air, the water and the woods, wherever he directs his steps, are thronged with innume- rable inhabitants. The pleasures of company and conversation con- stitute the only happiness of some; but the rhapsodist is incapable of tasting pleasure, when he is in- debted for it to the presence of a third person. Whether the hours be spent in mirth and pleasantry, surrounded by a circle of the young a... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-09537.xml Tue, 01 Sep 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-10587.xml IT was but two days since, that the letter mentioned in my se- cond number, was presented to me. In vain the Rhapsodist announces to his Readers, that he hates the intrusion of a visitor. Nothing but the rights of the strictest friendship (for the circle of my friends is numerous, though, my disposition is averse to friendship) will entitle any one to demand a private audience from him. In spite of my pretensions to unlimit- ed sovereignty over my own person and actions. In spite of my strong original propensity to silence and reserve, I am, in some measure, compelled to pay obedience, tho' grudgingly, to the laws of society. Thus, indeed, it fares with every one who aspires to the fame of sin- gularity. He, who affects the man- ners of a recluse, and demeans him- self in the midst of a populous ci- ty, like the lonely inhabitant of a desert, will often incur the censure of inveterate folly. While he feels his imaginary rights infringed, and the sanctity of the hermit disre- garded; men are little prone to sp... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-10587.xml Thu, 01 Oct 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-11661.xml IT may probably be expected that the Rhapsodist will now proceed to gratify his reader's curi- osity, by submitting to his critical inspection, the rest of that curious performance of which the purport has already been explained in the sequel of my former paper. I know not whether the limits to which reason and convenience na- turally restrict the writer of perio- dical essays, will admit of so diffuse a composition.—But perhaps it will not be absolutely necessary to com- prise the whole in a single paper, nor will it be less acceptable, tho' delivered out by piece-meal. The essay may be broken down into e- qual though detached portions, and by means of my judicious distribu- tion of the several parts, the frag- ments may be so disposed as to ren- der a due connexion of the subject, and a regular arrangement of my author's critical remarks, a very entertaining, and by no means a laborious task. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-11661.xml Sun, 01 Nov 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-02264.xml WHAT a name is this! And to be conferred by a man on himself! Yet this is frequently the best policy. The surest way to preclude, is to anticipate, censure, for no one will think it worth while, to call a poor culprit by names which the culprit has liberally and unceremoniously given himself. If Tom says, “I am a fool and an oddity,” his worst enemies can only add, “so you are.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-02264.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1815 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01057.xml I have often been struck by the different value which men annex to their own literary productions, and to those of others. It is not simply that the fame and success of our own performance is dear to us, that we wish it to be read, studied and admired for the sake of being extolled or revered by others, as the authors of so much eloquence or wisdom. We feel unspeakable compla- cency and satisfaction in the survey of the work; review it fre- quently and with new pleasure, and when it has been laid aside or disappeared so long as to be nearly forgotten, we fasten upon in anew with the utmost eagerness, and give it a dozen succes- sive readings without satiety or weariness. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01057.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02162.xml Those who write without affording any pleasure except to them- selves may be aptly distinguished by the name of Scribblers, but what name shall we confer on those who read with the same limited effects; without being inclined or enabled by their reading to please or benefit others? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02162.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04338.xml Ridicule, says some one, is the test of truth. If we judge by the ordinary practice of mankind, this opinion seems to be generally adopted, for nothing is more common than to use this weapon against those whose conduct or opinions, we disapprove; yet, why this opinion has been sanctioned by the approbation of all, and the practice of as many as are qualified for the undertaking, I am quite at a loss to con- ceive. The purpose which ridicule designs to effect is laughter, and the means adopted for this end are universally, an aggravation, dis- tortion, or concealment of the truth. It is absolutely necessary to heigh- ten the natural colours of most objects, to enlarge their proper linea- ments and features, or to show some of them disconnected with others, which are their genuine attendants, in order to render them ridiculous. If we examine any instance of ridicule, either in books, or conversa- tion, we shall not fail to find it such as I have mentioned. If we are acquainted with the original of which the lu... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04338.xml Sat, 01 Apr 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-05421.xml There are a great many wise sayings current on the worthless- ness of wealth and power; or rather on their positive and universal tendency to injure the possessor, to deprave his morals and subvert his happiness. Judging from the invectives of the teachers of mankind, one would think that rank, office, and riches would be as sedulously avoided, by those who desire to be happy, as any other road to ruin. Yet no one seems to be the better for these admonitions. People tug at the oar as strenuously, they manage the helm as vigilantly as ever, of that bark, by which they expect to gain the haven of riches and power. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-05421.xml Mon, 01 May 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-07029.xml Your countrymen, said a splenetic friend of mine, who has travel- led a good deal in America, are a nation of readers. Taking one with another, a far greater number of the people devote some of their time to reading, than of any other nation of the world. In Great Britain, France, and Germany, those who do, or who can read, bear a very small proportion to the rest. They are scarcely one in twenty; but in America almost every man is a student. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-07029.xml Sat, 01 Jul 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-08124.xml The writers of periodical essays frequently confess themselves very much at a loss for a subject. This is a little surprising to those who consider the essential and unlimited variety of human thought, and even those who prescribe to themselves a task of this kind, while they are often sensible of this difficulty, cannot but wonder that it should ever prove to be such. Even when they narrow their view, from the consideration of subjects in general, to that of subjects proper for them to discuss, the variety is still inexhaustible. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-08124.xml Tue, 01 Aug 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09155b.xml Ah! Jenny! these are hard times, but ours is no extraordinary lot. Heavy as the burden is on us, there are thou- sands on whom the load is heavier still, while the shoulders on which it is laid are far less able to sustain it than ours. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09155b.xml Sat, 21 Sep 1822 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09162.xml Why truly, Sister, I have no objection, but first, I must despatch my daily scrib- ble. Content thyself for a while with a look out from thy window. This is a more amusing employment than I thought it would prove. What impor- tance does it give, to have one's idle reveries clothed with the typographical vesture, multiplied some thousand fold, and dispersed far and wide among the race of readers! I wonder the scheme never occurred to me before. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09162.xml Sat, 28 Sep 1822 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-10170.xml 'Tis a sad thing to be without a friend. To pass to and fro, through a busy crowd and no eye be caught at your ap- proach; no countenance expand into smiles, no hand be stretched forth and while it grasps yours, be accompanied by the friendly greeting of “How d'ye.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-10170.xml Sat, 05 Oct 1822 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002a.xml What name is this? And to be conferred by a man on himself! Yet this is frequently the best policy. The surest way to preclude, is to anticipate censure, for no one will think it worth while, to call a poor culprit by names which the culprit has liberally and uncere- moniously given himself. If Tom says—“I am a fool and an oddity”—his worst enemies can only add—“So you are.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002a.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002b.xml Ah! Jenny! these are hard times, but ours is no extraordinary lot. Heavy as the burden is on us, there are thousands on whom the load is heavier still, while the shoulders on which it is laid, are far less able to sus- tain it than ours. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002b.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002c.xml Why truly, Sister, I have no objection, but first, I must despatch my daily scribble. Con- tent thyself for a while with a look out from thy window. This is a more amusing em- ployment than I thought it would prove. What importance does it give, to have one's idle reveries clothed with the typographical vesture, multiplied some thousand fold, and dispersed far and wide among the race of readers! I wonder the scheme never occur- red to me before. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002c.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002d.xml Methinks I blush to mention what is just now the subject of my thoughts. Even to trust it to paper, when the name of the wri- ter is invisible, as mine shall always be, is somewhat difficult. Whence does this reluct- ance to acknowledge our poverty arise? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002d.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002e.xml 'Tis a sad thing to be without a friend. To pass to and fro, through a busy crowd and no eye be caught at your approach; no coun- tenance expand into smiles, no hand be stretched forth and while it grasps yours, be accompanied by the friendly greeting of “How d'ye.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08002e.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09155a.xml What name is this? And to be confer- red by a man on himself! Yet this is frequently the best policy. The surest way to preclude, is to anticipate censure, for no one will think it worth while, to call a poor culprit by names which the culprit has liberally and unceremonious- ly given himself. If Tom says—“I am a fool and an oddity” —his worst ene- mies can only add—“So you are.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-09155a.xml Sat, 21 Sep 1822 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-10169.xml [We have failed in receiving the copy of the Marauder from the author, who is now in the country. —The Tale will be resumed in the next Cabinet] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1822-10169.xml Sat, 05 Oct 1822 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04241.xml AS I am a man of leisure, I frequently amuse myself with turning over the pages of your Magazine. I conceive your under- taking to be highly laudable, and wish you all success; notwithstand- ing, I perceive that you and I dif- er materially in our opinions re- specting the true purposes of such a publication. According to my opinion, a Magazine is not a volume from which, by laborious research, the divine, the philosopher, or the politician may extract materials to build some abstruse hypothesis, but a book whose every page should be fraught with some simple truth, some touching, moral precept, which comes home to the under- standing and the heart; a book to which the studious man may have recourse in a moment of relaxation, and from which, even the idle and the dissipated shall not rise without improvement. Since, then, not only to inform the understanding, but to delight the fancy, is the double purpose of the Magazine essayist, he is not always obliged to ransack the store-houses of me- mory and reflection... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04241.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10257.xml AS soon as my friend had closed the door of my apartment I threw myself into an arm-chair, and, resting my elbow on an old-fashion- ed escritoire which stood beside me, sunk into an intense meditation. Perhaps on this occasion I was borne away by an imagination, whose be- nevolent ardours the frost of three score winters has not been able to repress. It has frequently deceived me by false representations of men and things; yet still I am inclined to resign myself to its influence: and, old as I am, my bosom throb- bed when I contemplated a com- munity in which justice should be considered as an universal and sa- cred duty, and perfect sincerity the privilege of every rational being. As the term justice is liable to dif- ferent acceptations, it may be ne- cessary to explain what I mean by the use of it. Justice, with me, is not that partial thing which confines its views to a family, a class, a na- tion, or even to the human species. It comprehends the whole of intel- ligent existence. It unites adoration of t... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10257.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09161.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09161.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-03322.xml AN elegant writer has asserted, that we are all the creatures of Education, —implying that society is composed of persons who act only as they are taught. Perhaps the maxim may be justified from the example of some countries, in ancient and modern times. The Spartans and the Prussians would afford evidence of its truism. But in a country where education is a matter of inferior consideration, where teachers are as various in their precepts as they are numerous; and where the external alone is studied, to the ne- glect of moral accomplishment; in what light must we pursue the senti- ment of the writer?—We cannot call that education which consists of an indifference for, or a dereliction of the true intention of education. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-03322.xml Mon, 23 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT