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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f109-subject=anecdoteWed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTAnecdotes of distinguished Characters. – Kotzebue. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Kotzebue,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04076.xmlWed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTAnecdotes of Madame Du Barri. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir Benjamin employed the
four first years of his abode at Mu-
nich in acquiring the political and
statistical knowledge necessary for
realizing the plans which his phi-
lanthropy suggested to him for im-
proving the condition of the lower
orders. He did not neglect in the
meantime his favourite studies and
it was in the year 1786, in a jour-
ney to Manheim, that he made his
first experiments on heat. Politi-
cal and literary honours poured in
upon him during that interval. In
1785 he was made Chamberlain of
the Elector, and admitted a mem-
ber of the academies of science of
Munich and Manheim. In 1786 he
received from the King of Poland
the order of St. Stanislaus; in 1787
he made a journey to Prussia, dur-
ing which he was elected a member
of the academy of Berlin. In 1788
he was appointed major-general
of cavalry and privy counsellor of
state. He was placed at the head
of the war department, and parti-
cularly charged with the execution
of the plans which he had proposed
for improving the ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMTAnecdote of General Lee. Brown, Charles Brockden
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General Lee was remarkably
slovenly in his dress and manners;
and has often by the meanness of his
appearance, been subject to ridicule
and insult. He was once attending
general Washington to a place dis-
tant from the camp….Riding on, he
arrived at the house where they
were to dine, sometime before the
rest of the company. He went di-
rectly to the kitchen demanding
something to eat; when the cook,
taking him for a servant, told him
she would give him some victuals in
a moment….but he must help her off
with the pot. This he complied with
and sat down to some cold meat
which she placed before him on the
dresser. The girl was remarkably
inquisitive about the guests who were
coming, particularly of Lee, who
she said she heard was one of the
oddest and ugliest men in the world.
In a few moments she desired the
general again to assist her in plac-
ing on the pot, and scarcely had he
finished, when she requested him to
* This city is in long. W. from Phi-
ladelphia 29° N. lat....http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377b.xmlWed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMTA Worldling's Prayer. Brown, Charles Brockden
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BEND a favourable ear, O Lord,
to all our prayers; but grant only
those of our prayers which thou
knowest will be serviceable to us.
Have compassion on the errors and
blindness of these my brethren, and
let not any thought of their hearts
be gratified, for all the good things
they ask for would prove unto them
vanity and vexation of spirit.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06175.xmlFri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] La Chemise de la Vierge Marie. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is well known that the votaries
of the Roman religion deem them-
selves in possession of every thing
belonging to the person, family, and
household of the Saviour. Every
article of his clothing and lodging,
the house in which he was born, the
cup out of which is infancy was fed,
and even drops, or rather quarts, of
his blood, are preserved in Euro-
pean churches. As curious a relio
as any, however, was la chemise de
la vierge, which was preserved, in
the city of Chartres, in the ninth
century.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248a.xmlSun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMTAnecdotes. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A HOLLAND merchant, travel-
ling in a diligence in France, after
bearing patiently the loquacity of
several companions for some time,
at length desired them to desist
from interrupting the ride by their
conversation.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10530.xmlMon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Manners. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE following incidents will
amuse the observer of national man-
ners, and of the delicate links by
which the destinies of men hang to-
gether. The female racer will as-
tonish those who form their judg-
ments of foreign manners by their
own.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10546.xmlMon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMTBeatification. Brown, Charles Brockden
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On the 17th July was celebrated
at Verona the beatification of sister
Vermique Giuliana, late superior
of the convent of capuchins of St.
Claire. The miracles performed
by this female saint are, according
to the legend of the faithful, very
numerous, and amount to upwards
of 300. Lately, the wife of a wine-
merchant, whose favourite saint she
always had been, experienced the
effects of her prayers and presents,
by being delivered at once of three
strong healthy boys, after a mar-
riage of 18 years, during which she
never before had a child. Her hus-
band, in gratitude, has presented
this saint with a rich diamond cross;
and there is not a wife or a husband
in that part of Italy, who desire the
sterility of their beds to cease, who
does not address prayers and offer
sacrifices to her shrine. It is said
that three convents, possessing for
a long time saints famous for the
same qualities, intend to bring suits
at Rome against this member of the
Paradise, as an intruder or interlo-
per, their convents being entir...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10547.xmlMon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMTMarcia The Vestal. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A YOUNG lady being called up-
on for a Latin motto to a wedding-
ring, gave....
Felices nuptæ! moriar ni nubere dulce
est.
which may be rendered into humble
English thus....
Let me die if I don't think it a fine
thing to be married.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02085.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTYoung Roscius. Brown, Charles Brockden
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ONE of the most general and in-
teresting subjects of curiosity and
discussion, in England, at present,
next to the menaced invasion, ap-
pears to be the character and me-
rits of a player, by name William
Henry Betty, but who is more com-
monly known by the name of Young
Roscius. This title will sufficiently
explain the popular opinion of his
merit. The press has teemed with
publications respecting him, and the
ingenuity of biographers and mana-
gers has contrived to extract from his
affairs the materials of a heavy con-
troversy, in which, however, we, in
America, have no interest. Whe-
ther we shall ever be favoured by a
sight of this miracle of talents on
this side the ocean is a doubtful
point. Unless we go, or unless he
comes, immediately, we shall miss
the surprising spectacle. The ac-
complishments of Betty, at the age
of twelve or fourteen, are truly pro-
digious; but the prodigy will disap-
pear with that age. Betty, at the
age of twenty-five or thirty, what-
ever his ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04277.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTAnecdotes of Wieland. Brown, Charles Brockden
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NO poet has attained so much
eminence, in his native country, and
even beyond its precincts, as Wie-
land. English readers, indeed, must
be satisfied with such a knowledge
of him, imperfect as it is, as trans-
lation affords; but luckily for Wie-
land's glory, the version of Oberon
into English is at least equal to the
original.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-08117.xmlThu, 01 Aug 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Hannah-Moriana. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MISS HANNAH MORE, whose
works have been so much talked of,
and so much read, has lately as-
sumed the arduous office of instruct-
ing the heiress apparent of Great
Britain, in a work just published on
the education of a princess. The fol-
lowing specimens of her talents are
taken from this work, and will be
acceptable not only to that lady's
numerous admirers in America, but
to every sagacious reader.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-09208.xmlSun, 01 Sep 1805 12:00:00 GMTThree Kinds of Drunkenness. An Original Anecdote. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AT one of the Edinburgh medi-
cal societies, which are principally
composed of students, they debated
once more an old question, whether
opium is a stimulant? Much sophis-
try and much ingenuity were dis-
played as usual by several juvenile
orators, but without arriving much
nearer the truth than they were be-
fore. The question was several
times new modelled in the course of
discussion; at length it was asked,
are there not specific stimulants?
do all act in the same manner? has
wine, for example, the same effect
upon the human body as spirits, Peru-
vian bark, &c? A student, fonder of
good wine than of the abstruse study
of physic, was stimulated with the
very name of wine, though he was
silent all the evening before. “Dif-
ference!” said he; “ay that there is,
a vast deal of difference in stimu-
lants; ay, even in different kinds
of spirituous liquors. Now I cannot,
at present, talk to you about irrita-
bility, and nervous fluid, and all
that kin...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05336.xmlThu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMTBiographical Anecdotes of William Henry West Betty, Commonly Called the Young Roscius. Brown, Charles Brockden
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OF the lives of men who have
been celebrated in any art or sci-
ence, who have rendered them-
selves famous by the eminence of
their genius, or the extent of their
learning, it is a laudable curiosity
to desire to be accurately and mi-
nutely informed. We are anxious
to follow them from their cradle—
to watch the progress of their
minds—to trace them from the
first dawnings of their genius—
from the inexperience of infancy,
to the fulness and maturity of
their manhood. The object of the
present sketch has not indeed reach-
ed the latter period, but he alrea-
dy occupies so large a space in the
public eye, and the eminence he has
reached at the early age of thir-
teen, is so much higher than most
of those of the maturest manhood.
have been able to attain by the la-
bour and study of years, that our
readers, we are sure, will thank us
for the following particulars, ex-
tracted from Mr. Merritt's well
written biographical sketch of his
life.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-05366.xmlFri, 01 May 1807 12:00:00 GMT