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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f123-date=1805::01::01Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTA Sketch of the Life and Character of John Blair Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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JOHN BLAIR LINN was descended from ancestors who originally came from the
British islands. They appear to have been emigrants at an early period, and to have
given their descendants as just a claim to the title of American, as the nature of things
will allow any civilized inhabitant of the United States to acquire.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-00003.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on Population. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE are many ways of judg-
ing of the population and cultivation
of any country. One of these is
very frequently inferred from the
other. As the food of men is gene-
rally derived from the earth on
which they live, we can form some
general notion of the extent to which
the ground is cultivated, by knowing
the numbers it sustains, and so, con-
versely, the number of consumers
can sometimes be inferred from the
quantity of product.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01003.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTRomances. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A TALE, agreeable to truth and
nature, or, more properly speaking,
agreeable to our own conceptions of
truth and nature, may be long, but
cannot be tedious. Cleopatra and
Cassandra by no means referred to
an ideal world; they referred to
the manners and habits of the age
in which they were written; names
and general incidents only were
taken from the age and history of
Alexander and Cæsar. In that age,
therefore, they were not tedious, but
the more delighted was the reader
the longer the banquet was pro-
tracted. In after times, when taste
and manners were changed, the tale
became tedious, because it was
deemed unnatural and absurd, and
it would have been condemned as
tedious, and treated with neglect,
whether it filled ten pages or ten
volumes.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01006.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTThe Henriade. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I believe the French have few
works which they value so highly
as the Henriade. The extravagant
praises which have been lavished
upon it by the king of Prussia, M.
Marmontel, and Cocchi, have in-
duced me to read it. I need scarcely
add, how amply my trouble was
compensated. What, asks the last
of these panegyrists, can be more
interesting than to see a rebellion
stifled, the legitimate heir of a throne
combating in support of his title,
obliged even to besiege his rebellious
capital, and yet displaying in all his
actions the enterprize, the valour,
the prudence, and the generosity of
a hero. It is true, that in his poem
Voltaire has taken some slight liber-
ties with historical facts; but, not-
withstanding these events are recent
and notorious, still the ingenuity
of the poet has given them such an
appearance of probability, that their
deviation from the strict line of
truth ought not to be regarded by a
reader accustomed to consider a
poem only as an imitation of nature,
and composed of ingenious fictions.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01013b.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTJob Strutt. No. I. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I WANT a name for her, said
my friend Mrs. M........, when asked
the name of a little thing which she
had ushered into existence a few
weeks before.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01019.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTNew Year's Day. A Fragment. Brown, Charles Brockden
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........WHEN we reach a new year's
day, we reach an eminence in the
journey of life, where we are natu-
rally prompted to pause, from
which we have an opportunity of
seeing a large portion of the road
we have passed, and are powerfully
induced to cast our view forward in
search of futurity. Each one who
has attained this height looks back
and looks forward on a scene, and
with emotions, peculiar to himself.
What are my emotions? what is
the scene which I have passed, and
what the prospects which futurity
discloses to my anxious view?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01022.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTHumphrey's Works. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE Miscellaneous Works of
David Humphreys, Esq., Minister
Extraordinary to the Court of Ma-
drid, have been lately republished
in New York. Most of the poetical
pieces contained in this volume were
written and published either during
the American war, or shortly after
its termination. Their merit, there-
fore, has long ago been settled by
the public opinion.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01023.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTFrench Revolutionary Epochas. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE French revolution having
now apparently drawn to a close, it
may not be uninteresting to take a
short view of the revolutionary
epochas.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01024.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTRemarkable Occurrences. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE number of patients of the
Philadelphia dispensary, from De-
cember 1, 1803, to December 1,
1804, is 2,129http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-01069.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Fortune Telling. Brown, Charles Brockden
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ONE who is not strongly fortified
in incredulity will sometimes be half
persuaded to believe in the preten-
sions of those who discover future or
distant events, by other means than
the ordinary ones of sight and hear-
ing. A story shall be related, so
directly, consistently, and circum-
stantially, that one who has not
formed an invincible opinion, a pri-
ori, that it cannot be true, can
scarcely refuse his assent.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02083.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 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 GMTA Specimen of Agricultural Improvement. Extracted from the correspondence of a traveller in Scotland. Brown, Charles Brockden
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——THE northern estate called
C——, contains about twenty-five
thousand acres, and consists of a
roundish piece of land, jutting out
into the Irish sea, connected, by a
narrow peninsula, with the main
land of ———shire. The won-
ders wrought in this little territory,
by the genius of the proprietor, are
still more remarkable than those ef-
fected in W——, because its condi-
tion was far more desolate and for-
lorn, when it came into his possession.
Its general aspect was that of sterile
mountains, whose summits were
roughened with rocks, and whose
sides were covered with bog and
moss, and overrun with heath and
fern. Scarcely a fruit or timber
tree was any where to be seen…..
Near the coast a species of negli-
gent and slovenly cultivation took
place. About ten thousand acres,
or two-fifths of the whole, was di-
vided into two hundred farms, each,
on an average, consisting of fifty
acres, and containing, on the whole,
about fourteen hundred persons…..
Four hamlets, or villages, composed
of cottagers and petty tra...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02086.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn the Recession of the District of Columbia. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE recession of part of the dis-
trict of Columbia appears, at pre-
sent, to be the chief topic of political
conversation, and engrosses the at-
tention of congress. The motives
of politicians are generally behind
the screen, and public orators are
accustomed to make use of every
argument, in favour of their motions,
except the one which really influ-
ences their own belief, and directs
their own conduct. Thus it may be
reasonably suspected, that those who
recommend a recession desire a
change in the seat of government.
The extreme inconvenience of the
present seat of government could
not be imagined or forseen by those
who formed the constitution, or by
those who chose the banks of the
Potowmack for this seat. If they
had been imagined, they would have
effectually prevented the clause in
the constitution relative to a new
metropolis. These inconveniences
induce some of the members of con-
gress to wish for removal, but a
certain tenderness or veneration for
what is called public faith hinder...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02093.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTAmerican Prospects. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I HAVE often heard it observed by
travellers, that America contained
nothing of the picturesque. This is
very unaccountable. That part of the
picturesque which arises from the
elaborate arrangements of art, and
especially from the architectural
monuments of ancient times, it is
true, we do not possess. No crum-
bling walls are scattered over our
vallies; no ivy-clad tower reposes
on the brow of our hills. How
much the imagination is inspired
by these memorials of former gene-
rations, with what solemn and en-
nobling elevation they fill the mind,
are easily conceived, and these ad-
juncts are certainly wanting to the
scenes of our country. Those who
are accustomed to see nature con-
stantly accompanied by ancient tur-
rets or modern obelisks, by palaces
and spires, by artificial lakes and
water-falls, grow fastidious. The
face of uncultivated nature, which
contains no vestige of other times,
nothing to hint of battles, sieges, or
murder, is to them dreary, blank,
and insipid.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02097.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Sudden Death. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I WAS lately in a company where
the conversation turned upon the
most eligible mode of dying. Vari-
ous were the sentiments expressed
upon this interesting subject. A
lingering and natural death was ge-
nerally preferred, because such a
one afforded opportunity of peni-
tence and reformation, and of ar-
ranging all our private affairs. A
violent death, if foreseen, possessed,
indeed, most of these advantages,
but then such a death is likely to be
regarded with extreme reluctance;
whereas it is the quality of disease
to slacken the hold which the appe-
tites and passions have of life, and
to disrobe the terrestrial scene of
most of its ordinary attractions.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02101.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTUnequal Marriages. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AN equality of fortune seems to
be generally thought a good thing
in human society. Those who ob-
ject to it, really object to it as im-
practicable: not the end do they
disapprove, but the means some-
times employed or proposed to effect
this end; and they disapprove these
means, because they merely contri-
bute to exasperate those evils which
they are designed to lessen or re-
move.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02102.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTCritical Remarks on Austin's Letters from London. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MR. AUSTIN is a politician.
He is one of those who annex
great importance to forms of go-
vernment, and suppose most of the
vices and virtues, evils and felicities
of mankind to arise from their poli-
tical condition. He is a friend to
the democratic system, and thinks
the American constitution not only
best in itself, but to be best adminis-
tered by those who hold the public
offices, and bear legislative sway, at
present.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02103.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTRichard the Third and Perkin Warbeck. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE folly and the fallacy of fame
is an old theme of observation; but
there are few instances of its absur-
dity and injustice more memorable
than in relation to the character of
Richard the third. Happening to
be unfortunate in battle, and a rival
king and family stepping into his
place, his character has been ma-
ligned and mangled without mercy.
One historian after another has re-
peated the tale of his murders, per-
juries, and usurpations; and what
the grave historian relates to a few,
the poet has rendered familiar to
all mankind.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02108.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTFor the Literary Magazine. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Continued from vol. II, page 252. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE books which composed this
little library were chiefly the voya-
ges and travels of the missionaries
of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Added to these were
some works upon political economy
and legislation. Those writers who
have amused themselves with re-
ducing their ideas to practice, and
drawing imaginary pictures of na-
tions or republics, whose manners
or government came up to their
standard of excellence, were, all of
whom I had ever heard, and some
I had never heard of before, to be
found in this collection. A transla-
tion of Aristotle's republic, the poli-
tical romances of sir Thomas
Moore, Harrington, and Hume,
appeared to have been much read,
and Ludlow had not been sparing of
his marginal comments. In these
writers he appeared to find nothing
but error and absurdity; and his
notes were introduced for no other
end than to point out groundless
principles and false conclusions…..
The style of these remarks was al-
ready familiar to me. I saw no-
thing new in them, or different from
the ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02110.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Life of the Student. Brown, Charles Brockden
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In an essay, by Dr. Hawkesworth,
in which he has happily imitated
the style of his illustrious associate,
he has no less successfully exposed
the vulgar error, that the life of a
student is a life of ease and indo-
lence. There are few opinions
more specious to the careless ob-
server, and yet there is none more
lamentably false. They who listen
with rapture, in the short intervals
of leisure which they enjoy from a
laborious business, to the soft har-
mony of Pope, or the majestic pe-
riod of Johnson, imagine it the in-
spiration of a willing muse. But
that the fact is not so, the furrowed
brow and the enfeebled frame of
the student daily evince. Those
happy expressions which sparkle as
the effusions of the moment, are
really produced by the most elabo-
rate thought, and are not presented
to the reader until they have under-
gone an anxious and painful revi-
sion.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02116.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTSpecimen of Political Improvement. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Continued from page 86.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02120.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTRemarkable Occurrences. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IN the region of the sea-coast,
from Maine to Virginia, the season
appears to have been not only much
more severe than winters past, but
proportionably colder, and more
abounding in snow, than in the inte-
rior parts of the country. The in-
terior, truly, is covered with a good
depth of snow, and the weather has
been severer than common. But on
and towards the sea coast, south-
ward and eastward, the snow ap-
pears in many places deeper than
it is here, and uniformly of greater
depth than it has been known to be
there for many years: the cold is
proportionable. Stages have been
impeded in every direction; the na-
vigable streams and harbours fro-
zen, commerce on the coast at a
stand; no employment for the poor;
fuel extremely scarce and dear, with
most of the other necessaries of life;
the poor have suffered beyond all
description, to whom, we are happy
to learn, the hand of charity has
been extended, in all the populous
sea-port towns, with an unexampled
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OF his many valuable correspon-
dents, the editor has chiefly refrain-
ed from any other kind of notice
than is given by a prompt and ac-
curate insertion of their communi-
cations. This is the best proof he
could give of his gratitude and ap-
probation. Others, whose commu-
nications have not been fully adapt-
ed to the nature of his work, he has
thought it most respectful and agree-
able to their authors to pass over in
silence.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02160.xmlFri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMTThe Secret of Long Life. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE is a chimney in an an-
cient house in this city (Philadel-
phia), in which a fire was kept
continually burning for upwards of
forty years. The old gentleman
who attended this mysterious flame
died a very few years ago, and
seems not to have succeeded in dis-
covering the grand secret of which
he was in search. Indeed he al-
ways attributed his ultimate failure
to the necessity of withdrawing his
attention from the momentous pro-
cess for a whole day, in consequence
of the confusion and panic occasion-
ed by the entry of the British army
into Philadelphia. He lived and
died what they called a violent tory
or anti-revolutionist. After this
event his hostile zeal was more ar-
dent than ever; for, says he, what
was it deprived the world and me
of this great discovery but the war?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03163.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTVirgil's Mornings. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THESE great natural exhibi-
tions, evening and morning, have
always been thought peculiarly sus-
ceptible of poetical description and
embellishment. As I turned over
the pages of the Mantuan bard late-
ly, it occurred to me to enquire how
he had pictured the morning: for
often as I have read this my favour-
ite poet, I should not have been able
to give any account of his poetry in
this particular. I was surprised to
perceive, that the morning did not
appear to be a favourite object of
attention with him, for I did not
meet with it once in the Eclogues,
and only once in the Georgics. In
the Æneid, which, as a narrative
conducted through many successive
days, would naturally require the
morning to be frequently introduced,
it occurs, I believe, only eleven
times, which is at the rate of less
than once in each book. The par-
ticular allusion or description ex-
tends to the length of two lines only
in two instances, and in three cases
the same identical line is repeated.
Three times does he repeat
Titheni croceu...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03165.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn the Flavian Ampitheatre at Rome. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WITH my peculiar taste, you
will not wonder that the greatest
objects of my curiosity in Rome
were the Flavian amphitheatre and
St. Peter's church. These are the
greatest structures, in every point
of view, which the world contains,
and both evince the power and wealth
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DR. WARTON, in his Essay on
Pope, observes, that the dialogue in
the Essay on Criticism, between the
poet and the mad knight, is not
taken from the Don Quixote of
Cervantes, but from one that is
commonly called a continuation of
it, and which was, in fact, written
after the publication of the first part,
and before the second part appear-
ed. For this reason, and some
others, this performance, though in-
ferior to the work of Cervantes,
deserves more attention than is
usually given to it. It is said to
have been written by a person nam-
ed Alonso Fernandes d'Avellanada;
but this is supposed to be a fictitious
name. This book was translated
into French by Le Sage, a proof
that he thought it not destitute of
merit: there is likewise an En-
glish version, by one Baker; and
Cervantes himself alludes to it, se-
veral times, in the second part of
his own Don Quixote, particularly
in chapters LIX and LXXII. One
circumstance, indeed, renders this
book a literary curiosity: the great
probability that i...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03169.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTSome Account of the Great Dismal Swamp. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IN relation to human purposes,
this singular swamp justly deserves
the expressive name commonly
given to it, that of wilderness or
dismal, no condition of the earth's
surface being more wild and irre-
claimable than this. It is scarcely
possible to penetrate or pass through
it. The foot, at every step, sinks
not less than twelve or fifteen inches
deep into the soil. The trees are
generally small; they grow very
thick together, and the undergrowth
or shrubbery is so luxuriant, and
composed of such tenacious, perplex-
ing, and thorny wood, that the sight
is bounded to a few feet, the flesh
wounded and torn at every point,
and a path only to be made by the
incessant use of the hatchet. The
stinging insects are likewise innu-
merable, and extremely venomous,
and the exhalations fatal to human
life. On the whole, it would be dif-
ficult to imagine a situation on this
globe less suitable for human habita-
tion and subsistence than an Ameri-
can dismal.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03170.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTIs a Free or Despotic Government Most Friendly to Human Happiness. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A FEW years ago, this would
have been thought a most absurd,
as well as impudent question. It
would have been deemed an insult
to the common understanding of
every man born in Great Britain
or America, to suppose this question
susceptible of doubt or controversy.
A revolution has certainly been ef-
fected in many minds, with regard
to this question, within the last fif-
teen years. Many of those, who
once considered the superiority of
political freedom as a point alto-
gether beyond dispute, and as sup-
ported, not only by intuitive, self-
evident truth, but by the loud and
uniform attestation of experience,
have now gone over to the opposite
opinion. Many have, at least, found
their convictions shaken, and if they
have not entirely abjured their an-
cient creed, begin, at least, to per-
ceive that the truth of it is not quite
as clear as they once imagined.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03178.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTPlan for the Improvement and Diffusion of the Arts, Adapted to the United States. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE scarcity of taste and of
skill in the fine arts of painting,
sculpture, and architecture, in the
United States, is a subject of great
wonder to travellers. It is a pa-
radox of difficult, but surely not
of impossible, solution, that a ci-
vilized, peaceful, free, industrious,
and opulent nation, of four or five
millions of persons, sprung from one
of the most enlightened nations of
the globe, and maintaining incessant
intercourse with every part of Eu-
rope, should have so few monuments
of these arts among them, either in
public or private collections. There
was not a single public collection of
this kind in the United States till
the establishment of one, a few
years since, at New York; and it
is well known with what slender
encouragement and support the rich
have honoured the New York in-
stitution.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03181.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Response to] On the Progress of Nautical Science. Brown, Charles Brockden
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There have been in Europe two
great nautical schools, the Medi-
terranean and the Baltic. In the
first, a calm sea, the art of ship
building was a continual improve-
ment of the oar-raft, a coasting
navigation, the practice of the mari-
ners; and the port-customs, and
the maritime terms and laws, all
wear marks of this original charac-
ter. In the second, a stormy sea,
the art of ship-building was a gra-
dual evolution of the sail-raft; an
open navigation, from the earliest
times, was preferred; and the
usages, phraseology, the code of
regulations, are all tinctured by a
corresponding spirit. The common
and statute law of sea matters handed
down by tradition, and by the Rho-
dian code from the ancients, was
gradually modified into that system
of regulations known by the name
of “Il Consulato del Mare,” which
received the papal sanction in 1075,
was re-enacted in most of the sea
ports of the Mediterranean, but not
till 1162 at Marseilles, and was first
printed at Barcelona in 1502. This
work has been translate...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03187.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTLiterary Blunders. Brown, Charles Brockden
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GEOGRAPHICAL errors are
more common in books than any
other kind of errors. This is not
surprising, when we reflect on the
infinite variety and number of par-
ticulars of which geography consists.
On this account, a writer may be
reasonably excused if, on some occa-
sions, he should place an inland
town on the sea-side, or remove a
country a few hundred miles further
from some other country than na-
ture has done. But these errors
will be entitled to less excuse, when
we reflect on the extreme facility
with which every man of books may
make himself acquainted with most
points of geographical knowledge,
whenever he has occasion for this
knowledge. Maps are generally at
hand, or easily procured, and when
we are not certain, it becomes us to
take the trouble to enquire, especi-
ally as that trouble is, in most cases,
extremely small.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03188a.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on the Former and Present State of Holland. Brown, Charles Brockden
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CIVIL liberty, as distinguished
from political, is the grand purpose
for which civil society was formed,
and government instituted. With
respect to this, the Dutch had ad-
vantages, before their revolution,
which left them no room for com-
plaint; and however imperfect their
political constitution might be deem-
ed, they actually enjoyed more free-
dom than the inhabitants of most
other countries.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03188b.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Literary Fashion. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE caprices and revolutions
in literary taste form a subject of
curious speculation. How many
works and how many authors owe
their popularity to fashion! The
popularity of truly meritorious
works is entirely owing to fashion,
for some time, at least, after their
publication. Perhaps the endurance
of this popularity may be admitted
as the test of merit. That popular
approbation is governed almost
wholly by caprice or fashion is a
truth well known to booksellers.
The following anecdote will show
how little we are able before hand
to distinguish the public pulse with
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AMONG the whimsical ideas
which have found harbour in the
minds of the learned and ingenious,
not the least remarkable, I think,
is the hypothesis of a celebrated
Welch antiquarian, that the society
of quakers is only a continuation of
the old bardic institution or reli-
gion. In analyzing the principles
of the ancient druidical religion, he
is struck by the surprising coinci-
dence between them and those of
the amiable society of quakers.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03194.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTA Literary Wife. Brown, Charles Brockden
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NOTHING is so terrible, to most
men, as a literary wife. Indeed,
nothing is so rare. Whatever a
woman is, as to literature, science,
or the arts, before marriage, she
generally lays aside all her learning
with her maiden state. Other avo-
cations then engross her attention,
and either her mind is not suffi-
ciently capacious, or her taste suffi-
ciently versatile, to enable her to
divide her time between her old
pursuits and her new. One of them
must be neglected for the other, and
the happiness of life is probably pro-
moted by the preference usually
given, in this dilemma, to the occu-
pations of a nurse and housekeeper.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03195.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTArabia Felix. Brown, Charles Brockden
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ALL ideas of merit are said to
be comparative. Hence it is, that
to comprehend one who endeavours
to convey an idea of places or per-
sons, in general terms, we must be
thoroughly acquainted with the his-
tory of the describer. His judgment
of what is great or little, good or
bad, beautiful or ugly, is under the
influence of his own experience.——
That is remarkably large, which
exceeds in bulk any thing of the
same kind he ever saw before,
though to others it may be remark-
ably little, for a similar reason.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03198.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTMrs. Barbauld and Miss Burney. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MRS. BARBAULD is generally
known to us only as a poet and a
writer of moral essays and tales. In
like manner, Miss Burney appears
before us merely as a writer of no-
vels. To the honour of the sex,
however, it is to be mentioned, that
both these ladies have once been
seduced into the paths of public and
dignified eloquence. Two of the
most eloquent productions of modern
times claim these ladies for their
authors. In 1793, Mrs. Barbauld,
on occasion of a fast enjoined upon
the nation, for the purpose of sup-
plicating success to the war, recently
engaged in with France, published
a discourse, entitled Sins of the Go-
vernment Sins of the Nation. In
the same year, Miss Burney pub-
lished an address to the British la-
dies, in behalf of the emigrant
French clergy. Both of these per-
formances manifested a wisdom and
eloquence, which no productions of
the present age have exceeded. If
I wanted to inspire a female with
generous sentiments and a useful
emulation, I should put these two
pieces in her hands, rather ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03200.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTSpecimen of Political Improvement. Brown, Charles Brockden
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EVERY district in Great Britain,
of any considerable extent, contains
at least the vestiges of an ancient
castle and abbey. The ruinous con-
dition of these edifices is more ow-
ing to the neglect and violence of
men, than to the frailty of their
structure or materials. The fero-
cious avarice and barbarous tyranny
of Henry VIII, in England, and the
wild fury of a fanatical populace, in
Scotland, were the causes of the
destruction of abbeys; while the
change of manners, which rendered
a fortress no longer necessary to
personal safety, has occasioned the
ruin of castles. In some few instan-
ces the abbey, though with a multi-
tude of alterations, has become a
private dwelling, and the castle,
rendered sacred by the images of
ancient grandeur and power, has, at
an immense expense, been convert-
ed to the same use. In general,
however, both are reduced to their
foundations, and are cherished mere-
ly as mementos of past ages.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03201.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTConnecticut Scenery. From a Traveller's Journal. Brown, Charles Brockden
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ON Wednesday, Mr. D—— and
myself on horseback, and my friend
and A—— in a chaise, visited two
lofty points in the neighbourhood of
this city (Middletown), called
Higby's mountain and Powder hill.
The first is ascended by a winding
and craggy road, leading through a
forest of shrub-oaks and cedars.
The opposite side is a steep and
rugged cliff, the height of which it
is difficult to ascertain. This cliff,
whose descent is, in many places,
perpendicular, forms a kind of wall,
from the foot of which there stretches
a scene of magnificent extent, and
delicious variety.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03205.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Employment of a Cure for Lunacy. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT may be very wise in most
cases, and in some cases absolutely
necessary, to shut up maniacs alone,
in naked, gloomy, noisome cells,
and to consign them to total inacti-
vity. One, who is no physician, can
hardly fail of condemning such
modes of treatment. We know that
these circumstances would make a
sound man crazy. It is hard to be-
lieve them capable of making a
crazy man sound.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03208a.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction and Response to] Marvellous Stories. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IGNORANCE, they say, is the
mother of credulity; but I think
this maxim is a false one. It is the
characteristic of human nature to
discredit what is opposite to our
own observation or experience.—
Whether this observation and ex-
perience be narrow or extensive,
we are equally disposed to deny
credit to that which contradicts it.
Perhaps it is the natural conse-
quence of enlarged knowledge to
produce credulity, or a disposition
to admit, if not the truth, yet, at
least, the likelihood or possibility of
facts, not enforced by the strongest
testimony, though such facts do not
coincide with our own experience.
The more we know, the larger are
the limits of possibility. Every new
fact or appearance is, of course, not
coincident with previous knowledge,
and seems to allow us to conjecture
the possibility or existence of things,
as remote from the fact just known,
as this fact is from what was previ-
ously known.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03208b.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTFor the Literary Magazine. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Continued from page 114. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I RETIRED accordingly to my
apartment, and spent the prescribed
hour in anxious and irresolute re-
flections. They were no other than
had hitherto occurred, but they oc-
curred with more force than ever.
Some fatal obstinacy, however, got
possession of me, and I persisted in
the resolution of concealing one
thing. We become fondly attached
to objects and pursuits, frequently
for no conceivable reason but the
pain and trouble they cost us. In
proportion to the danger in which
they involve us do we cherish them.
Our darling potion is the poison that
scorches our vitals.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03210.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTA Specimen of Political Improvement. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I AM much mistaken if the castle
of C—— be not, in many respects,
the most extraordinary monument
of its kind to be found in Great Bri-
tain, and perhaps in Europe. It is
true, my acquaintance with build-
ings of this sort is extremely limit-
ed, and the model of this castle may
be common in Italy and Germany,
but these, the vestiges of which are
scattered over the British islands,
seem to be constructed on a plan
widely different from this. You
must indulge me in giving you some
description of it, though I am aware
no description, in such cases, can be
very clear or satisfactory.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03214.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTCritical Remarks on Buchan's Advice to Mothers. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THIS performance is one of the
most useful and agreeable that could
have been transplanted to our soil.
The author is an old man, but he
writes in an entertaining and per-
suasive, and even in an elegant
manner. The work is entirely free
from technical obscurity, or sci-
etific method. It is written to in-
struct, and, for that purpose, endea-
vours to engage the attention of that
sex, whose interests he takes into
his care.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03225.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTRemarkable Occurrences. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Authors and publishers are requested to
communicate notices of their works,
post paid, and they will always be
inserted, free of expence.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03240.xmlFri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Classical Learning. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I AM sorry to find that sensible
and well meaning persons of both
sexes have been influenced by the
arguments or the authority of Mr.
Godwin. I say of Godwin, for I
have not seen the same sentiments
in any other writer. He advises
parents to give their sons a classical
education, because, says he “they
can never certainly foresee the fu-
ture destination and propensities of
their children.” This argument is
very weak and inconclusive.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04256.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTMadelina. A Female Portrait. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MADELINA, you wish me to
draw your character. What a
strange wish, to be preferred by a
young lady to a young man, who has
seldom seen you, at times and in situ-
ations which admit of no disguise,
and which draw forth all our secret
foibles, and who, at best, has neither
a sober nor impartial judgment.
Still, however, I will do my best.
If I blame you, your pride may rea-
sonably impute it to my ignorance;
if I praise, your modesty will natu-
rally suggest some doubts of the
sincerity of one, who sets a very
high value on your good opinion, and
who thinks your smiles cheaply
bought, even at the price of some
duplicity.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04269.xmlMon, 01 Apr 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 GMTShakespeare's Similes. Brown, Charles Brockden
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DAINTIES are said to be dain-
ties only when eaten rarely and
sparingly. Sweets cloy, and good
things grow stale, by repetition and
excess. Some have maintained that
these maxims hold good with regard
to intellectual, as well as corporeal
dainties, but, I suspect, the analogy
is fallacious. The more we banquet
upon poetry, painting, and music,
the more is our appetite enlarged,
and our relish improved. The
deeper we go into these pursuits,
the harder does it become to extri-
cate ourselves from their allure-
ments, and transfer our thoughts to
other objects.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04281.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Mathematical Studies. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MATHEMATICIANS, in gene-
ral, regard every other tract of hu-
man pursuit as absolutely, or, at
least, comparatively, futile and nu-
gatory. If it were possible to light
upon an impartial person, with un-
questionable skill in the objects of
his animadversion, I would submit
the justice of this conclusion to him.
I should even appeal to him whether
the zeal of mathematicians arises
from any other cause than the plea-
sure which the understanding finds
in the exercise of its own powers.
Should he point out the various ap-
plications of which mathematical
truths are capable, to the ordinary
comforts of society, to facilitating
the measurement of land, the pas-
sage of the ocean, the building of
houses, and the like, I should not
think my question satisfactorily an-
swered: for, admitting the useful-
ness of mathematics to this purpose,
I am far from thinking that mathe-
matical students owe their zeal to
the contemplation of this purpose.
On the contrary, I suspect that the
ideas of abstract utility form no par...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04284.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTTerrific Novels. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE Castle of Otranto laid the
foundation of a style of novel writing,
which was carried to perfection
by Mrs. Radcliff, and which may
be called the terrific style. The
great talents of Mrs. Radcliff made
some atonement for the folly of this
mode of composition, and gave some
importance to exploded tables and
childish fears, by the charms of sen-
timent and description; but the mul-
titude of her imitators seem to have
thought that description and senti-
ment were impertinent intruders,
and by lowering the mind somewhat
to its ordinary state, marred and
counteracted those awful feelings,
which true genius was properly em-
ployed in raising. They endeavour
to keep the reader in a constant
state of tumult and horror, by the
powerful engines of trap-doors, back
stairs, black robes, and pale faces:
but the solution of the enigma is
ever too near at hand, to permit the
indulgence of supernatural appear-
ances. A well-written scene of a
party at snap-dragon would exceed
all the fearful images of these books.
There ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04288.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTVolcanoes. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A VOLCANO is surely the
greatest of natural curiosities, be-
cause it is one which bears the least
resemblance to those objects which
are daily and familiarly passing be-
fore our eyes. If a volcano were
always insulated in such a manner,
that it should constitute nothing but
a spectacle, the deprivation of it
might be reasonably deemed a dis-
advantage; but this, alas! is never
the case. Its devastations extend
commonly far beyond the limits of
the sight; and even if a sea inter-
vene between us and the flaming
hill, the ground beneath us is often
shaken, when the volcanic flame is
only faintly seen in the dim horizon,
emitting an uncertain ray, like the
lamp of a beacon, seen remote.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04290.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTGovernment of Louisiana, as Organized by Law. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE executive power is vested
in a governor, to reside in the ter-
ritory, and hold his office three
years, unless sooner removed by the
president of the United States. He
is commander in chief of the mili-
tia; superintendant, ex officio, of
Indian affairs; and appoints all offi-
cers in the same, below the rank or
general officers; has power to grant
pardons for offences against the
same, and reprieves for those
against the United States, till the
decision of the president is known.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04293.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTVanity. Brown, Charles Brockden
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VANITY is commonly judged of
by external appearances: he who
betrays his desire of applause most,
who practices most assiduously the
tricks and stratagems by which ap-
probation can be gained, is deemed
the vainest man; but this distinc-
tion seems to be groundless. The
difference between him who does
this, and him who does it not, seems
to imply, not a difference in their
vanity, that is, in their desire of
applause, but only in their judgment
as to the best means of gaining the
approbation they desire.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04294.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMT[D]uties [sic] of Editors. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I AM a warm well-wisher to
your work, and am sorry that it
does not seem to have attained a
popularity and circulation quite as
extensive as I think it merits. I
have been casting about a good deal
to divine the cause of this, and being
unwilling to impute it to any defi-
ciency, either of real merit in your-
self, or of penetration or munifi-
cence in the public, I am inclined to
ascribe it to the neglect of certain
arts, by which the respect and at-
tention of the world is much more
certainly won than by any solid ex-
cellence.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04301.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTKotan Husbandry. Brown, Charles Brockden
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HUSBANDRY, the most import-
ant of all arts, has been reduced to
very simple principles, and been
brought within a very narrow com-
pass, by this nation. There is no
art susceptible of greater variety in
its operations than this, and none in
which the western nations have ac-
tually adopted a greater number and
diversity of modes. This obviously
arises from the dispersed and un-
connected situation of the cultivators,
and from their stupidity and igno-
rance. The learned and curious
have laid out their wealth and their
curiosity on different objects, and
the art of extracting human subsist-
ence from the earth has been treat-
ed with contempt and negligence.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04303.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTCriticism. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE author builds the reasonings
and exhortations of these pages on
the well-known counsel given to Job
by his wife. After some judicious
remarks on the conduct and charac-
ter of Job, he proceeds to define the
crime of suicide, in a much larger
sense than is commonly assigned to
it, and in such a sense as will greatly
extend the application and utility of
the lessons which these discourses
convey.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04310.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTAmerican Literary Intelligence. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE design of republishing Col-
lections of the Massachusetts Histo-
rical Society, which had been relin-
quished for want of encouragement,
is resumed. The expence will be
defrayed by the funds of the society,
who will trust to the sale of the
work for a reimbursement. It is
intended to reprint, at present, the
three first volumes only, which are
out of print. The first numbers of
this valuable work, which were ori-
ginally published in the American
Apollo, can now be found only in the
library of the society, or in the few
sets owned by the members.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04318.xmlMon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMTTo Correspondents. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE author of the Elegiac Stan-
zas is earnestly solicited to make
this work the depository of his fu-
gitive pieces. Many such must be
lying in his port folio. Whatever
resolutions his diffidence may adopt,
with regard to the future, a muse
so prompt and fertile as his will find
it impossible to be wholly silent.
She cannot open her lips but to
awaken the respectful attention of a
much greater number than he seems
at present aware of, and her most
careless and unlaboured effusions
will be gratefully received. The
editor extremely regrets that he
cannot admit these stanzas into the
present number. He is obliged to
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AUSTERE moralists are inclin-
ed to consider drunkenness as a
crime to be punished by human
tribunals, but this system, if adopt-
ed, would involve law-makers and
judges in very great difficulties.
They would find it impossible to
form an adequate scale applicable
to the offence.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05330.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTAlliance between Poverty and Genius. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE truest stimulus to literary
efforts, in writing, it has been long
ago observed, is necessity. The
most ingenious and eloquent of mor-
tals is silent, when relieved from the
necessity of writing for bread. This
has been a very prevalent opinion,
and yet it is either groundless, or it
admits of a considerable number of
exceptions.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05333.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTSomnambulism. A fragment. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The following fragment will require no
other preface or commentary than an
extract from the Vienna Gazette of
June 14, 1784. “At Great Glogau,
in Silesia, the attention of physi-
cians, and of the people, has been
excited by the case of a young man,
whose behaviour indicates perfect
health in all respects but one. He
has a habit of rising in his sleep, and
performing a great many actions with
as much order and exactness as when
awake. This habit for a long time
showed itself in freaks and achieve-
ments merely innocent, or, at least,
only troublesome and inconvenient,
till about six weeks ago. At that
period a shocking event took place
about three leagues from the town,
and in the neighbourhood where the
youth's family resides. A young
lady, travelling with her father by
night, was shot dead upon the road,
by some person unknown. The offi-
cers of justice took a good deal of
pains to trace the author of the
crime, and at length, by carefully
comparing circumstances, a suspicion
was fixed upon this youth. Afte...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05335.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTLaw of Nations. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A GREAT many grave treatises
have been written on the law of na-
tions, and the writers have probably
fancied themselves usefully employ-
ed while writing them. They have,
indeed, contributed not a little to
our entertainment and instruction,
by collecting a great number of his-
torical anecdotes. But nothing can
be more preposterous that their at-
tempt to extract from these anec-
dotes a rule for the future govern-
ment of nations in their mutual in-
tercourse. Nothing can be more
absurd than for a private person, in
his closet, to lay down a law for the
regulation of neighbouring and rival
states.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05347.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTProgress of Geometry. Brown, Charles Brockden
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GEOMETRY, which, in its ori-
ginal, was no more than the art of
measuring the earth, has been very
rarely applied to that purpose, in
after times. Its votaries have been
busily engaged in measuring sur-
faces and figures, which can only
exist in the imagination, such as
circles, spheres, cones, and pyra-
mids, of which, whatever applica-
tions have been made to the men-
suration of empyreal spaces, or ce-
lestial bodies, there has seldom been
any practical use made, in ascer-
taining heights and distances upon
the surface of the earth.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05348.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTA Literary Lady. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MOST men are desirous of being
thought learned; but there was a
time, when learning was thought to
reflect, not honour, but some degree
of discredit on the female sex.—
Strange caprice and perverseness
of fashion! To spell badly was in-
excusable in a man, but some ladies
placed a kind of honour in mis-spell-
ing; and there are illustrious wo-
men on record, who thought it ne-
cessary to their good name to coun-
terfeit an ignorance which they had
not, and knowingly to commit blun-
ders in style and spelling, at which
a school-boy of ten years old would
have blushed.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05359.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] On the Character of Sir William Jones. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE are few men of the pre-
sent age, to whose memory more
love and admiration have been paid
than to that of sir William Jones.
There is a kind of competition
among his survivors, which shall be
most lavish of his veneration. While
his erudition excites the astonish-
ment of some, his poetical genius
awakens the idolatry of others. The
eloquent praise of a third set of ad-
mirers is called forth by his legal
and political pre-eminence; while a
fourth bestows upon his head the
honours due to the patriot and phi-
lanthropist, the friend of his God
and of mankind. His great literary
reputation would atone for many
social and moral defects; but sir
William Jones was no less eminent
for the integrity, purity, and mild-
ness of his private manners, than for
the extent and variety of his intel-
lectual attainments.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05360.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTDescription of Cohoes Falls. From a Manuscript Journal. Brown, Charles Brockden
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July, 1803.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05365.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn the Merits of Cicero. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I HAVE contrived to read the
greater part of the works of Cicero
through, merely by taking up the
volume, at any odd, unoccupied mo-
ment, during the intervals, for in-
stance, between my two dishes of
coffee, or three pieces of bread, at
breakfast. This morning I opened
at the second Tusculan, and being
somewhat in a sulky mood, by rea-
son of some little domestic inconve-
nience not worth relating, I failed
to discover all that wisdom and elo-
quence, of which I usually find a
rich repast in these volumes. On
the contrary, I really conceived a
notion, from this dialogue, that Cice-
ro, however great in other respects,
was, upon the whole, both in theory
and practice, but a poor philosopher.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05368.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Collections of Paintings. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE Hollanders, who are an in-
dustrious, intelligent, and saving
people, during the last century con-
trived to make the productions of
the fine arts subservient to com-
merce. They justly observed, that
fortunes acquired by trade and navi-
gation soon give birth to a taste for,
and love of, the fine arts; indeed
almost a necessary consequence at-
tached to the inheritance of wealth.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05374.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTLiterary News from England. Brown, Charles Brockden
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BELSHAM has completed his
History of Great Britain, from the
Revolution, 1688, to the conclusion
of the treaty of Amiens, 1802; and
the eleventh and twelfth, or conclud-
ing, volumes, will make their ap-
pearance in a few days. This valua-
ble publication will then constitute
the only history of Great Britain,
during the same important period,
which has been the work of a single
writer.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05375.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTReport of the Committee Relative to the Establishment of Schools throughout the States of Pennsylvania, in such a Manner that the Poor May Be taught Gratis. Brown, Charles Brockden
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TO encourage the promotion of
literature generally, the children of
all our citizens ought to be taught at
the public expence. In this way, no
inviduous distinctions of rich and
poor would be exhibited, nor would
the feelings of any be unnecessarily
wounded. The existing law on the
subject holds out those distinctions,
which, it is presumed, is a princi-
pal reason that so few have em-
braced its provisions. When we
consider the manner in which the
greater part of our schools are con-
ducted; the great body of our
schoolmasters deficient in the first
principles of the language they at-
tempt to teach; our youth in immi-
nent danger of acquiring erroneous
habits; and, add to this, the time
that must be wasted in acquiring a
useful degree of education, it is pre-
sumed that a general plan of educa-
tion may be adopted, that will have
a tendency to prevent those evils,
and be supported at as little expence
to the community as the present.
Young men will find it their inte-
rest to qualify themselves for the
off...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05385.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTReview. The History of Virginia, from its first settlement to the present day. By John Burk. Vol. 1. 8vo.Petersburg, 1804. pp. 348. Brown, Charles Brockden
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P. J. DESAULT'S Treatise on
Fractures, Luxations, and other
Morbid Affections of the Bones, has
just been translated by Dr. C. Cald-
well, of Philadelphia. Desault was
chief surgeon to the Hotel Dieu at
Paris, and enjoyed the highest re-
putation, and most extensive prac-
tice.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05400a.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTTo Correspondents. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE editor has received several
favours, which came too late for the
present month, the contents of each
number, in order to insure punctua-
lity in publication, being made up
at a pretty early period in the
month. Hence some valuable com-
munications have been unavoidably
deferred. The Visitor has been re-
ceived, but at too late a period. In
the same predicament are the “Re-
marks on the Mock-bird and Night-
ingale,” “Comparison between the
Climate of Madras and Philadel-
phia,” “On the Anti-christian Ten-
dency of Classical Studies,” and
several others.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05400b.xmlWed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMTGoldsmith and Johnson. Brown, Charles Brockden
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GOLDSMITH appears to enjoy
as large a share of critical venera-
tion as any writer of his age. His
laurels, indeed, grow brighter with
time, and his power to instruct and
amuse will probably increase as
years roll on, and one generation
follows another.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06403.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTCiceronians. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE ruling passion of Cicero
was undoubtedly the love of fame.
To this he was ready to sacrifice
every other consideration. The
images of future glory seem to have
always occupied his fancy, and he
wrote and spoke, doubtless, in some
degree, for the sake of present and
temporary purposes, but chiefly for
the sake of a lasting reputation with
posterity.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06404.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Situations of Coal. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE attention of the public
seems lately to have been pretty
much excited by the uses of coal.
This substance will, in no long time,
become our only or principal fuel,
and our diligence will, of course, be
directed towards procuring a sup-
ply of it from our own stores. The
following symptoms by which we
may judge of the presence of coal,
and rules by which we may regu-
late ourselves in search of that use-
ful product, may not be unservice-
able or unseasonable.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06405.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTA Modern Sampson. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AMONG instances of extraordi-
nary strength, the following, which
is well attested, seems to be one of
the most remarkable:http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06409.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTSymptoms of Genius. Brown, Charles Brockden
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EXPERIENCE does not seem to
have settled the tokens and symp-
toms by which we may infallibly
judge of human genius or capacity.
At what age, for example, may a
man's productions in poetry afford
us a criterion by which to judge of
his ultimate attainments? It is
true, if an old fellow of fifty begins
to scribble verses which have no-
thing but the rhyme or numbers, or
not even these to recommend them,
we may safely admonish him to for-
bear, for that Nature never designed
him for a poet; but if some acci-
dent awaken and direct to poetry
youthful ambition, by what means
shall we ascertain how far the first
attempt, supposing the first attempt
to be unsuccessful, is a sample of
the writer's genuine powers? Eve-
ry poet must begin, whenever he
begins, with writing badly. He
cannot start up from his cradle a
Pope or a Milton. A progress that
terminates in excellence must yet
begin with very rude and jejune at-
tempts; and this beginning must be
equally unpromising, whether it
take place at the ag...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06413.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTThe Nightingale and the Mock-bird. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WE Americans who have never
passed the ocean, and many of us,
indeed, who have crossed it, are ut-
ter strangers to the nightingale,
except in description. In this way,
indeed, there are few objects more
familiar to us; since, in all the
descriptive poets of the old world,
from Virgil to Cowper, the nightin-
gale is a perpetual theme of pane-
gyric; and hence we have naturally
imbibed a most profound veneration
for this chief of natural musicians.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06417.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Persian Poetry and Hafiz. Brown, Charles Brockden
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OF late years, there has been a
good deal said about Persian poetry,
and several translations have been
made from its volumes, from which
many persons are inclined to infer,
that this language is as well stored
with genuine poetical treasure as
any ancient or modern tongue of
Europe. Whatever may be my
taste, I have very strong poetical
inclinations, and I have accordingly
taken great pains to acquire as inti-
mate an acquaintance with the Per-
sian poetry, as my ignorance of the
original language will permit.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06419.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTSpenser's Fairy Queen Modernized. Brown, Charles Brockden
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BY what title are we to distin-
guish that species of composition, of
which Dryden affords us examples
in his Palamon and Arcite, and Pope
in his Wife of Bath and his imita-
tions of Donne? These poets take
the substance, the sentiments, and
images of certain ancient writers of
their own country, and give them a
language and numbers of their own.
The dialect of the old poet is nearly
unintelligible. His metre is rude
or antiquated; some of his images
quaint, unapt, and injudicious. All
these disadvantages vanish under
the modern pen, and the sterling
gold, which, an obsolete and half-
worn superscription, would scarcely
allow to be current, becomes, by
passing anew through the mint, a
distinct, legible, and beautiful mo-
dern coin, which every body ad-
mires and covets.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06424.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTPope's Universal Prayer Examined. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WARBURTON tries to persuade
us, that Pope's Universal Prayer is
only a paraphrase of the Lord's
Prayer. I can see no foundation
for this notion: of the fifty-two lines
that compose it, only two,
That mercy I to others show
That mercy show to me,
appear to bear any resemblance to
the Lord's Prayer. Of the rest, the
whole tenor and spirit, if not ad-
verse, does, at least, bear no simili-
tude to that eloquent, sublime, and
simple invocation.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06425.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTInfluence of Religion on Happiness. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHETHER happiness or misery
occupies the heaviest scale, in the
balance of human experience, is a
question that will never be univer-
sally decided. The tribe of bene-
volent philosophers fancy that the
good greatly predominates, and draw
inferences from the wonder-work-
ing power of habit, not only to equa-
lize the goods of every condition in
human life, but almost to annihilate
the evils. Wealth, they say, is ac-
companied with its train of peculiar
evils, and poverty by a numerous
company of benefits, to which po-
verty alone gives a claim.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06428.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTShakespeare Re-examined. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE remarks made, in a former
number, on the similies of Shakes-
peare, has not met with the appro-
bation of all your readers. Some
objection was made by the critic to
the terms made use of by Troilus,
when, speaking of his efforts to dis-
guise his uneasiness, he says, that
“his sigh was buried in wrinkle of
a smile.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06432.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTNational Liberty and Happiness. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHERE is a nation free and
happy to be found? These terms
are thought to be correlative. A
nation is said by some to be happy
only as it is free.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06434.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTThe Balloon and Telegraph. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHEN great changes or disco-
veries are effected, men find it diffi-
cult to put themselves into that
state, and recal to their imagina-
tion that view of things which ex-
isted previous to such changes or
discoveries. The actual steps in
that revolution being slow, succes-
sive, and many, the mind proceeds
to the distant goal without difficulty
or surprise. We arrive at a cer-
tain point without any extraordinary
emotion, and all around us appears
familiar and plain. And yet, pre-
viously to our setting out upon our
journey, had some power lifted us
suddenly to a great height, and af-
forded us a clear view of the point
we were destined to reach, conceal-
ing from us, at the same time, all
the intermediate steps, we should
feel raptures of delight and wonder,
and nothing but prophetic assuran-
ces could bring the attainment of
such a point within the verge of
possibility.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06441.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTOn Didactic Poetry and the Georgics. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IN consequence of the decision of
Aristotle, many a servile critic has
denied the rank and praise of poe-
try to didactic compositions. Many
will argue, that Aristotle was as
much in the right as Plutarch, and
that Castelvetro was wrong. The
stagirite pretended not to lay down
rules a priori, but, from the best
examples before him, formed a code
of laws to guide the taste of his own
and future ages. His judgment on
the ode was formed from the sublime
numbers of Pindar, and his notions of
the epic from the nervous harmony
of Homer; but, in the times of
Aristotle, there was no didactic poet
who vied with these great founders
of lyric and heroic composition.
Hesiod was a mere chronologist, and
Theocritus, with much suavity of
style, was too defective in spirit and
energy for one inspired by the muses.
The poem of Empedocles, “On the
Nature of Things, and the Four
Elements,” is totally lost, but ap-
pears to be the only one that could
plead in favour of didactic subjects,
when Aristotle wrote. The candid
and poli...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06449.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] The Iron Mask. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE are few readers who
have not heard of the man in the
iron mask, and who have not felt
their curiosity deeply interested in
the solution of that famous mystery.
The best account of this extraordi-
nary personage has been published
by Soulavie, in his memoirs of Riche-
lieu. The solution he gives is wor-
thy, in its importance and dignity,
of the mystery to which it relates.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06451.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTForeign Intelligence, Literary and Philosophical. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MR. CARR, author of the Stran-
ger in France, and other works,
having, during the last summer,
visited Denmark, Sweden, and Rus-
sia, and made a circuit of the Baltic,
intends to favour the world with an
account of his travels, accompanied
by various engravings from his own
drawings.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06471.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMTLiterary Intelligence. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE has lately been publish-
ed by T. and J. Swords, of New
York, The Life of Samuel Johnson,
D. D., the first president of King's
College, in New York, containing
many interesting anecdotes, a gene-
ral view of the state of religion and
learning in Connecticut, during the
former part of the last century, &c.,
&c. By Thomas Bradbury Chand-
ler, D. D., formerly rector of St.
John's church, Elizabethtown, New
Jersey. To which is added an ap-
pendix, containing many original
letters, never before published, from
bishop Berkely, archbishop Secker,
bishop Lowth, and others, to Dr.
Johnson.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-06479.xmlSat, 01 Jun 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] On the Culture of the Sugar Maple. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IMMENSE sums of money are
sent to the West Indies for sugar.
From experience, it has been found
to be a wholesome and nutritious ar-
ticle of diet. A species of the Ame-
rican maple contains genuine sugar,
and, if properly prepared, would, in
every respect, equal, in all its qua-
lities, the sugar obtained from the
cane in the West Indies. For su-
gar, like water, is of one original
species only. Its variety depends
upon its being more or less mixed
with other matters, all of which may
be separated by easy processes.
The maple not only affords an ex-
cellent sugar, but a pleasant molas-
ses, and agreeable beer, a strong
sound wine, and an excellent vinegar.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-07020.xmlMon, 01 Jul 1805 12:00:00 GMTCirculation of Newspapers. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is stated, in a late number of
the Moniteur, that of that official
paper 3,000, of the Publiciste 2,900,
of the Journal de Paris 2,800, of the
Journal des Debats (which is most
favourable to the ancient order of
things) 6,000, of the Clef des Cabi-
nets 11,000, of the Citoyen Francais
1,200, of the Journal des Defenseurs
de la Patrie 1,000, of the Décade
Philosophique 900, and of the Eng-
lish newspaper called the Argus
720 copies are sold.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-07033.xmlMon, 01 Jul 1805 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] German Cemeteries. Brown, Charles Brockden
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NEW ORLEANS has become of
so much importance by its transfer
to the United States, and by being
the resort of so many adventurers
from the Atlantic coast, that we
may naturally feel some curiosity
respecting its real condition.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-07039.xmlMon, 01 Jul 1805 12:00:00 GMTThomson's Seasons. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WE say of any scheme or project
which is futile and nugatory, and
which we are inclined to stigmatize
with our contempt, that it will end
in smoke. Ex luci dare fumum
was, I suppose, proverbial with the
Romans. What then shall we think
of the felicity or dignity of the fol-
lowing passage of Thomson, in its
close?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-07045.xmlMon, 01 Jul 1805 12:00:00 GMTForeign News, Literary and Philosophical. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MR. ARTHUR YOUNG intends
in future to publish his valuable
agricultural journal, the Annals of
Agriculture, quarterly instead of
monthly. The numbers will ap-
pear on the first days of June, Sep-
tember, December, and March, of
every year, making one volume an-
nually of original agricultural infor-
mation, which must be invaluable to
every practical farmer and man of
landed property in the British em-
pire. The monthly publications of
this work already extend to forty-
three volumes; and the whole
forms a complete library of agricul-
tural knowledge.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-07066.xmlMon, 01 Jul 1805 12:00:00 GMTHistory and Culture of the Coffee. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE plant was from Africa, and
was brought from Abyssinia in the
14th century. Its properties were
discovered by accident in feeding
animals, and its use began in Ara-
bia in the 15th century. The Ara-
bians had it from Persia. It was
first taken to prevent sleep, then for
the head, and then for pleasure. It
was at Marseilles in 1657, but not
much used. It reached Paris about
1669. Since 1685, it has been freely
used in London, but more gradually
in Spain and Italy. To the Holland-
ers Europe is indebted for the culti-
vation of coffee. They carried it from
Moka to Batavia, from Batavia to the
gardens of Amsterdam. In 1714,
Louis XIV received several plants
from Amsterdam for the royal gar-
den. Thence Desclieux carried some
plants to Martinico, in 1728, though
several had been carried thither in
1726. In 1722, it was cultivated in
Cayenne, without liberty to export
it, and thence was carried to Mar-
tinico. It was early in Jamaica, and
in 1740 at Cuba.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-08090.xmlThu, 01 Aug 1805 12:00:00 GMT