http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;expand%3Dsubject;f4-date%3D1800 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;expand=subject;f4-date=1800 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-00000.xml The task of relating the last events in the life of my beloved master, has fallen upon me. His last words reminded me of the obligation, which I had long since assumed, of conveying to his Atticus a faithful account of his death. Having performed this task, life will cease to be any longer of value. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-00000.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01017.xml [Continued from p. 434 of vol. i.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01017.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01030.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01030.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01047.xml [Continued from p.445 of vol. i.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01047.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01055.xml WE should not notice a per- formance of so transitory a nature as the present, so long after its appearance, if its compara- tive merit were not so great as to render it more worthy of attention than most of the class of similar publications. We regret that it was not put into our hands at an earlier period; but, should it be indebted to this circumstance for a longer existence, the writer may be com- pensated for our tardy approbation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01055.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01061.xml [Continued from p. 453 of vol. i.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01061.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01076.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01076.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02096.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02096.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02099.xml RUSSIA, by the part she has lately taken in the contests and negociations of the western nations of Europe, has become an object of importance. The pro- gress and condition, political and geographical, of that Empire, are subjects of curious speculation; but these speculations seem hitherto to have led to many erroneous con- clusions. It is common to allow our minds to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of this object, and not to discriminate between the real and apparent sources of power and wealth. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02099.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xml EVERY event has some good effects mingled with its evil ones. This is eminetly true with respect to the death of Washington. I condole with my fellow citizens in general, on the loss which they have sustained in the death of one, who, in every political exigence, would have exerted himself for the common safety, with more likeli- hood of success, with greater puri- ty of motives, with more foresight and caution, and with a larger por- tion of the general confidence, than any other man living. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02108.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02108.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02115.xml [Continued from p.53.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02115.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02120.xml IT may be said, without deroga- tion to the numerous rhetorici- ans who have devoted their genius to the same theme, that popular es- teem was more ardent and unani- mous with respect to this orator, than to any of his compeers. His personal acquaintance with that great scene in which the late Presi- dent performed so memorable a part; the maturity of his age; the ample limits of his observation, and the long exercise of his intelligence on political topics, were justly imagined to place him far above all other competitors for this office, and carried to a very lofty pitch the ex- pectations of the public. This eu- logy, stripped of all the fascinations of looks and gesture, and all the magic of tones, is now submitted to our sober and dispassionate in- spection, and the delicate and ardu- ous function is assigned to us of weighing its topics, and scrutiniz- ing its style. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02120.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02122.xml THE fire that pervades this composition is, by no means, of so sparkling a kind as that by which the former is animated and brightened. There is nothing which, in any degree, rises above the hu- mility of prose. If there be no strains of uncommon eloquence, there is, at least, no tincture of af- fectation, no painful efforts to at- tain sublimity and grandeur. There is none of that glittering imagery and elaborate conscieness which prove the writer to be more engaged in displaying and contemplating his own perfections than those of the deceased. There is earnestness, if not pathos; and, if he depicts in ex- aggerated colours the national grief, he is led into this error, less by the precepts of a fulsome and phantastic rhetoric, than by the mournful suggestions of his own mind. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02122.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02124.xml FOR several years past the orators on the anniversary of Ameri- can independence have ben freed from the tramels which formerly beset them, in undertaking their holy-day task. The awful convul- sions of Europe, and the conflicts of party animosity in our own country, have furnished ample sub- stitutes for the old and thread-bare topics of British oppression, the value of independence, the blessings of civil liberty, and the rising glory of our new world. Of this oppor- tunity to depart from the beaten path, Mr. L. has availed himself. Instead of dwelling on themes for- merly considered appropriate to the occasion, he prefers the more popu- lar subjects of domestic broils, the French revolution, and the horrors produced by political licentiousness and false philosophy, in every coun- try in which French power and principles have gained the ascend- ancy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02124.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02125.xml THE death of General Wash- ington has produced sensa- tions in the public mind, and called forth expressions of sorrow for his loss, and of respect to his memory, which are, probably, without a pa- rallel in the history of man. Over his tomb the spell of party is dis- solved; the conflicts of opposing politicians are suspended, and the American people, with one heart, and with all the ardour of filial af- fection and gratitude, crowd around, to do honour to his ashes. Seldom have those who contend that Re- publics can be grateful, been fur- nished with a more remarkable in- stance in support of their opinion than the manner in which the citi- zens of the United States have treat- ed the memory of their political fa- ther. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02125.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02128.xml ON perusing this Address, we could not forbear to remark a strain of sentiment very different from that of other performances; on the like occasion, which have come before us. The subject is the same, but the topics of argu- ment and illustration, as well as the manner in which they are treated, are greatly dissimilar. Dr. M. tells his hearers that he came not to de- liver the language of flattery and declamation to “tickle their ears” or to amuse their fancy with the flowers of rhetoric. His purpose is to talk with plainness and candour about independence, and the na- ture and characteristics of a repub- lican government. He does not, therefore, seek to gain their favour by flattering their prejudices, or to awaken their feelings by depicting the splendid attributes of national sovereignty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02128.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02131.xml PERFORMANCES like the pre- sent, which are of a temporary and fugitive nature, are not always expected to be elaborately wrought, or exquisitely finished. Indeed, on the present occasion, there is danger, lest the imagination of the orator, so powerfully impressed with the magnitude and grandeur of his subject, should lead him astray from the path of a just and manly eloquence. Too many of those who have attempted to eulogize the father of our country, have indulged an undisciplined and lawless fancy, which has produced nothing but extravagant bombast, outrageous metaphor, and splendid conceit. Pleased with the creations or distor- tions of their own imaginations, they have wholly lost sight of the noble simplicity, and true dignity of that great man whom they wish to honour and immortalize by their matchless strains. His productions would have furnished them with models of a pure and correct style, replete with the lessons of wisdom and truth, the result of a keen pene- tration and just discrimination, long ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02131.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02139.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02139.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02155.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02155.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03161.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03161.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03172.xml A FRIEND of mine lately de- sired me to lay aside some very urgent business in which I was engaged, to attend to a certain Mr. Calvert, whom he solicited my leave to introduce to me. My at- tention was otherwise engaged, and I saw nothing in the character of this stranger that promised to re- ward me for the time bestowed up- on him; but my friend was ex- tremely importunate, and assured me that I should have no reason to repent of my compliance. He said I should be infinitely entertained with the adventures of the man, that his life abounded with surpris- ing turns of fortune, and that he would prevail with him to tell me his story. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03172.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03174.xml YOU will return, Harry, to an house of sorrow. Your pre- sence will contribute to make my solitude less painful. I would, there- fore, intreat you to come back im- mediately: but there is something to be first settled before I can meet you with satisfaction, or even before I can permit you to return to me. I have had something on my mind to disclose, which I have brooded over occasionally ever since we parted, but which it is now abso- lutely necessary to mention. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03174.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03208.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03208.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03213.xml MR. TURNER is of opinion that “these remains evince a member of the herbivorous order; and, from their extraordinary size, prove, that they belong to some link in the chain of animals, which, like that of the Mammoth, has long been lost. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03213.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03217.xml RHETORICK has been lavish of its homage to the memory of Washington; but we recollect only this and one other considera- ble specimen of poetry which this occasion has produced. On this account, therefore, as well as on others, these specimens deserve par- ticular attention. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03217.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03219.xml WE are highly pleased with the chaste and temperate strain of this discourse. In many cases this theme has suggested the wild- est flights of imagination that we have ever witnessed. The orators seem to have thought that no effort could equal the greatness of their theme. They have sparkled and glittered till our sight has been daz- zled, and pained; and we light, with uncommon satisfaction, on a piece of smooth and unostentatious verdure like that before us. Our sight is invigorated and refreshed, and enabled to resume its gaze upon the glaring meteors which the fa- shionable rhetorick is constantly darting athwart our horizon. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03219.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03221.xml THE bill of fare contained in the title-page did not awaken very high expectations of the com- ing banquet. The Commander in Chief was only Lieutenant-Gene- ral, and the day and year of his death would have been proper to identify his person, if he had been liable to be mistaken for another. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03221.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03222.xml THIS oration is suitably intro- duced by reflections on the useful tendency of public acts of mourning, and monuments of gra- titude, for such as have benefitted mankind, to inspire the living with similar virtues; and on the re- ference which ought always to be made, on those occasions, to our Maker, from whom every perfect gift is derived. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03222.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224a.xml THIS is a brief and simple nar- ration of the principal events of the life of General Washington, from his youth to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, delivered in plain and perspicuous language. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224a.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224b.xml THE topics of this orator are in no respect different from those we have very often noticed in the numerous publications on the same occasion. There is no- thing in his style and manner that merits particular attention. His effusions of admiration and grief are those of a grateful and virtuous heart. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224b.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03225.xml AS both of these translations are from the same German play, our remarks on them, and the play itself, will be comprised under this article. Great liberty is allowable in the adoption of dramatic titles. The original words, wild fang, taken in their literal sense, mean wild chase; but it is a phrase tantamount to mad-cap, or a wild, hair-brained young fellow. Wild Youth is well enough, but a Comedy for Digestion sounds oddly in our ears, and is somewhat equivocal in its meaning. In the preface to the former translation* of Mr. S. it was said, that this piece was in- tended only for a Christmas-day, and he might easily be led to adopt the other part of the title. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03225.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03236.xml THIS is a plain, serious, and sensible discourse. Among the numerous publications which have been made on the same sub- ject, it does not rank very high. Still, however, we do not think it falls below mediocrity. Dr. Os- good's mode of depicting General Washington's character, though not very discriminating or new, has little of that affectation and extra- vagance which we have too often seen displayed. On the whole, he treats the character, and the dispen- sation of Providence, on which his discourse is founded, in a manner becoming a minister of religion, who, while he gives due praise to the creature, ascribes all the glory ultimately to the Creator. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03236.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 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=1800-04243.xml VISITING my friend Crito, lately, I found him in his closet poring over a collection of metrical romances, by some of the old Troubadours. I could not help censuring that perverse taste which could find pleasure in the monsters and prodigies of the Gothic ro- mance, and expressed much con- tempt for their incredible exploits, their absurd images, their lame al- legory, their spells, and giants, and winged dragons, their halls of gold, and their bridges of glass. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04243.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xml HISTORY and romance are terms that have never been very clearly distinguished from each other. It should seem that one dealt in fiction, and the other in truth; that one is a picture of the probable and certain, and the other a tissue of untruths; that one de- scribes what might have happened, and what has actually happened, and the other what never had exist- ance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04256.xml [Continued from page 30.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04256.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04284.xml To know the language, I must read its books. These books may be inferior to French or English; but they doubtless have an absolute, and no inconsiderable value: I may comprehend them less easily or per- fectly than English compositions; but I shall, nevertheless, obtain, in some degree, their meaning. Ger- man poetry, philosophy, and elo- quence, will, therefore, impart to me some of those benefits which eloquence, philosophy, and poetry are always qualified to give. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04284.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04289.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04289.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04296.xml THIS animal, hitherto a non- descript, unless we suppose it to be similar to that described by Mr. Jefferson, is thus pourtrayed by Mr. H. from intelligence col- lected among the Indians. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04296.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04302.xml THIS performance begins with a very spirited exordium. It is brief, and a transition is easily and gracefully made to an enume- ration of the great events of Wash- ington's life. This method is strictly natural, and has therefore been adopted by every eulogist whom we have seen. A critical observer will be instructed and amused by marking the various combinations of words and associa- tions of images produced, by the same events, in different minds; and, as human excellence is merely comparative, there hence arises a criterion by which the merit of the several orators may be weighed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04302.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04304.xml THIS address is remarkably characterized by simplicity and seriousness. It is of a mild and equable tenor. It abounds with proofs of clear judgment, and is free from all extravagance, or af- fectation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04304.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04305.xml “GREAT God! we adore thy sovereign providence, which hath smitten the father of his country, and left a nation in tears!” Such is the exordium of this oration, which pursues to the end, though with somewhat diminished vehe- mence, the same strain of glowing eloquence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04305.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04307.xml THE design of this writer is to borrow the phrases and images of the Scotish Bard, and ap- ply them to Washington. The propriety of this design is a consi- deration very different from that of the success with which it is executed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04307.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04309.xml WHEN the death of Wash- ington had awakened every sympathetic feeling, and roused every faculty of the orator to do justice to his character, and render homage to his memory, it was not to be expected that the poet would slumber in silence, or his lyre be unstrung. But the effusions of the latter have been extremely rare. Thousands may, from education and habit, deem themselves quali- fied to discharge the functions of an orator or eulogist on this occa- sion, but those of the poet are more arduous, and demand those splendid endowments, those divine energies which belong only to the few. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04309.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04318.xml AFTER a storm of rain with thun- der and lightning, on the evening of Saturday the 12th of April, the streets of this city appeared covered with a yellow substance resembling sulphur. Se- veral gentlemen made experiments upon this yellow dust, and found that it pos- sessed none of the properties of sulphur, but was a vegetable substance, supposed the pollen, or fecundating dust, of the pine forests of New-Jersey. The same ap- pearance of yellow dust was also observ- ed after the same storm, on Long-Island, more than thirty miles from New-York. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04318.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05321.xml IT is a common remark, that friendships formed in childhood are most permanent. But observa- tion and experience will lead us to doubt its truth, and to believe that the intimacy between children of the same age rarely continues to years of maturity. In youth, ab- sence or a change of fortune, weak- ens or destroys the sentiment of friendship. Early attachments, it will be found, are often unfavour- able in their impressions, and in- jurious in their consequences. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05321.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05323.xml WAS there ever any satisfac- tory account given of the passion of love? Was the subject ever handled didactically? What is love? Has this question, so of- ten asked, ever been properly and clearly answered? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05323.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05326.xml IT is strange that you book- makers are a race of such grave, abstruse people, that you are fond of talking about things with which most people have no concern, and in a way that not many can under- stand, and still fewer are pleased with. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05326.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05330.xml [Continued from p. 284.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05330.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05347.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05347.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05352.xml FEW of the orations which have commemorated the death of Washington can be quoted in comparison with this. The strain of eloquence is more unaffectedly impassioned, more correctly figura- tive, more temperately encomiastic, than commonly is met with. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05352.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05353.xml THE usual detail of the inci- dents of Washington's life, his public and his private virtues, is given in this discourse. The narrative is not enlivened by many sparks of eloquence. The writer observes that “the sublimest eulo- gy of Washington consists in a faithful history of his life, and an impartial delineation of his public and private virtues;” and every reader will probably comply with his request to be forgiven, “if, in the sketch of his history and cha- racter, a strong affection for the man should appear, blended with a reverence for his talents.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05353.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05354.xml “Americans! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05354.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05355.xml OF a character far different from the performance noticed in the preceding article, is the one now before us. We turn with pleasure from a fabric gaudy, tasteless, and frail, to the contemplation of one where the proportion, beauty, and strength of a Grecian structure are displayed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05355.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363a.xml THE text of this discourse is taken from Isaiah iii. 1, 2, 3. Behold! the Lord of hosts doth take away the mighty man, and the man of war, the prudent, and the ancient, the honourable man, and the counsellor. The principal object of Mr. H. is to apply the various epithets and characteristics mentioned in this passage of holy writ, to the late father of our country, to shew that he was a mighty man—a man of war—prudent—ancient—honourable, —and a counsellor. We see little to commend, or to censure, either in the plan or execution of this sermon. Mr. H. tells us nothing of Washington but what is fami- liarly known. He places no part of his wonderful character in a new, or peculiarly interesting light. His praise is all of the common kind, and expressed in the common way. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363a.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363b.xml THIS sermom is chiefly remark- able for two things, its brevi- ty, and its modesty. Mr. S. nei- ther fatigues by tediousness, nor nauseates by indulging in fulsome or extravagant strains. Too many of General Washington's eulogists seem to have supposed, that the more frequently they mentioned his name, and the more rhapsodical and bombastic the style of their praise, the more fully they attained the desired end. Mr. S. has taken a different method. He describes a great and a good character in the abstract. In this description, which is pretty well drawn, though the talents and virtues of our departed hero are obviously kept in view, yet there is no direct reference to them. Toward the close, Mr. S. gives vent to his feelings in the fol- lowing language: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363b.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05365.xml IN the dedication of this play, we are informed that it owes its origin to the “commands” of a fe- male friend of the author, who was present with him at the representa- tion of Nauman's opera of Cora, and suggested it as a subject for a drama. The author, obedient to the gentle mandate of the fair critic, soon after introduced to her “The Virgin of the Sun.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05365.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05398.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05398.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06401.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06401.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06402.xml I WENT lately into the company of two persons, whom I will call Tom and Harry, talking very loudly upon politics. The debate, as usual, had proceeded from argu- ment to sarcasm, and from raillery to railing, and went on somewhat in this style: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06402.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xml BELIEVE me, Mary, that to the security of matrimonial felicity, no quality is more necessa- ry than candour. All reserve, ob- scurity, or disguise, are produc- tive of indifference, suspicion, or distrust. Let my example con- vince you of the necessity of per- fect candour, and unbounded con- fidence in the conjugal union. There should exist such an unity of interest that every pleasure or pain should be common, and all separate enjoy- ment or suffering is an injury to its sacred rights. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06413.xml [Continued from p. 340 and concluded.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06413.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06424.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06424.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06429.xml “AND in thine hand it is to make great.” This is the text, branched out into numerous dis- tinctions, and judiciously applied to the merits of the great deceased, which forms the basis of this per- formance. The usual sources of greatness, in birth, property, and talents; in fit adjustment of occa- sions; in the reverence of mankind; and in moral excellence or sanctity; are concisely displayed; and a transition is made to Washington, in whom the principal sources of greatness were, in a remarkable de- gree, combined. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06429.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06431.xml THIS discourse is remarkably different from most of those that have issued from the pulpit and the press on the same occasion. All fervour, and impetuosity of conception and language, seem to have been studiously avoided. There is the calmness and circum- spection of the analist in his closet, who desires to convince us, by slowly and accurately adjusting the balance, and taking a numerical account of how much one scale outweighs the other, rather than the bold career of eloquence, that aims to hurry us away without delibera- tion and in spite of our reluctance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06431.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07007.xml WHAT strange project is this which you describe? A picture of American manners! A view of our social, domestic, eco- nomical state! Such as foreign and future observers, as well as contemporary ones, shall point to and say, “This is the scene dis- played by four millions of actors on the vast stage bounded by the Ocean, Florida, Mississippi, and St. Lawrence, for the three lustrums ensuing the revolution, which made the Anglo-Belgico- Teutonico-North-Americans a na- tion.” Are you aware of the many difficulties attending such a scheme? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07007.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07011.xml A GENTLEMAN, a friend of mine, who sometimes favours me with a visit, lately found me at a window that overlooks New- York-Bay and its Islands. This scene, just then, was extremely beau- tiful, and its beauties were height- ened by a long-protracted echo oc- casioned by the evening gun, fired from the ramparts of the fort on the Island. My guest took his seat by my side, and began the talk by some reflections on the picturesque. He spoke somewhat to this effect: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07011.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xml IS there any difference between the words felicity and happiness? If any difference there be, it must, methinks, be of a very delicate and subtile nature. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07016.xml THE property of North-Ame- rica was claimed by the kings of England, because certain navi- gators, either their native subjects, or foreigners authorized by their commissions, and sailing from their ports, had descried some parts of its eastern shore. To have sailed along the cost was a sufficient bar to the claims of other christian princes, provided no other had sailed along it before. In that case it seems to have been deemed necessary, not merely to descry it at a distance, but to land and leave behind them some monument, or some inscrip- tion, by way of taking possession. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07016.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07019.xml New-York, April, 1800. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07019.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xml LET me thank you, my belov- ed friend, with tears of true pleasure, for this letter. How happy am I in your love and confidence! How zealous shall I be, and how proud to deserve it! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07047.xml THIS pamphlet exhibits a view of the proceedings of the University of Cambridge, in Massa- chusetts, “in solemn and pious commemoration of the singular talents, eminent virtues, and unpa- ralleled services of General Wash- ington.” So far as we have been informed, or can now recollect, this University has the honour of be- ing the only one in the United States, which, as a Seminary of learning, has joined in the public expression of mourning, so gene- rally and fervently offered to the memory of the departed chief of America. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07047.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07051.xml WE presume the most of our readers recollect the passage in Mr. Jefferson's “Notes on Vir- ginia,” which this pamphlet is de- signed to elucidate and defend. Some philosophers of Europe had advanced an opinion, that there is something in the soil, climate, and other circumstances of America, which occasions animal nature to degenerate. They extended this opinion to the men as well as to the brutal tribes of our western world. Mr. Jefferson, in the above-men- tioned work, thought proper to examine and controvert a theory, which he considered “so unfound- ed and degrading to one third of the globe;” and among other proofs adduced in opposition to it, he men- tions the speech of Logan, an Indian chief, ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07051.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07056.xml THAT author is much to be envied who not only derives self-gratification from the exercise of his pen in the recesses of study, but enjoys the sweet satisfaction of hearing hundreds acknowledge, that they have received pleasure and instruction from the composi- tions of his genius. But it seems there are some writers so careless, or rather so diffident of acquiring literary renown, that they are con- tented with the retired and sponta- neous exercise of their faculties, without exposing themselves to the inquisition of criticism, by coming forward as candidates for public ap- plause: and that man may surely be deemed fortunate, who possesses the art of amusing his leisure with the elegant occupations of taste and li- terature, without toiling to promote the entertainment of others. The author of the work before us appears to have been a character of the last description, for he tells us in his preface, that he wrote for his own amusement and improvement,— but his friends, it seems, reque... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07056.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07058.xml “I Have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,” (2 Tim. iv. 7.) is the text prefixed to this discourse. After some very pertinent and judicious observations on the interesting spectacle of pub- lic mourning for the death of Wash- ington, and the presage of future virtue and patriotism, which this spirit of national gratitude and ad- miration for his eminent talents and services affords, Dr. M. proceeds to consider the character of the illus- trious deceased in three points of view—as a military commander— as the first civil magistrate—and as a private citizen. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07058.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07074.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07074.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07III.xml THE Monthly Magazine, and American Re- view, was undertaken with a foresight of the many diffi- culties which might embarrass and impede its progress for a time; but, feeling some confidence in the general excel- lence of their plan, and relying on the aid of friends, and others well disposed to promote the literature of their country, the Editors were not intimidated by the gloomy prospect of the disastrous wreck of former adventurers, or discouraged by the predictions of a similar fate, from re- newing the experiment, and again trying the strength and durableness of public favour and patronage towards literary projects. Its appearance, too, at a time when no similar publication was known to exist in the United States, was justly deemed a circumstance peculiarly favourable to success. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07III.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 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=1800-08081.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08081.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08087.xml IT is a pity that the most useful of intellectual exertions is at the same time the most difficult, but such is definition. The difficulty, indeed, disposes us to decry the utility, and to call for definitions is, now-a-days, accounted impolite. That readiness and accuracy of con- ception and command of language requisite to answer such calls, being seldom or never possessed, the call is heard generally with anger and impatience, and he that is used to make it may pass for logician or philosopher, but will never be ranked with polite men; politeness being merely the art of pleasing, di- rectly, by soothing the vanity or banqueting the passions of others, or, indirectly, by avoiding accusa- tion, and helping others to conceal their incapacity or ignorance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08087.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08092.xml SHORT-HAND has grown con- siderably into use of late years. In some schools in Great Britain, it has been adopted as a part of or- dinary education, and the authors of schemes of short-hand writing are never tired of dwelling on its ex- cellencies and advantages. It may, therefore, be worth while to reflect a moment upon the possibility and limits of this accomplishment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08092.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xml THESE words have differences that are not easily discovered or defined. I offer you my opi- nion on those differences with no great confidence; but I am a great friend to inquiries of this nature; and as some of your readers appear to resemble me in this respect, I am willing to throw my mite into the common fund of instructive entertainment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08101.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08101.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08120.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08120.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08131.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08131.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141a.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141a.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141b.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141b.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143a.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143a.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143b.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143b.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143c.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143c.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143d.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143d.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08144.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08144.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08153.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08153.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT