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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f124-date=1800::01Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTDeath of Cicero, A Fragment. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTMemoirs of Stephen Calvert. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p. 434 of vol. i.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01017.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. I. [Review of] A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the principal Phenomena of the Physical World, which precede and accompany them; and Ob-servations deduced from the Facts stated. In two vols. 8vo. By Noah Webster. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1799. pp. 700. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01030.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. III. [Review of] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society … . Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p.445 of vol. i.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01047.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. VI. [Review of>] An Oration, delivered at the request of the Society of [Phi Beta Kappa], in the Chapel of Harvard College, on the day of their anniversary, July 9, 1798. By John Thornton Kirkland. 8vo. pp. 24. Boston. J. Russell. 1798. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. II. [Review of] Essays...By...Count Rumford . Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p. 453 of vol. i.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01061.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01076.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTDialogues of the Living. Dialogue II. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02096.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTRemarks upon the Russian Empire. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTHints for a Funeral Oration. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. VII.[Review of] A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the principal Phenomena of the Physical World, which precede and accompany them; and Ob-servations deduced from the Facts stated. In two vols. 8vo. By Noah Webster. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1799. pp. 700. (Continued from p. 36) . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02108.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. VIII. [Review of] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. . Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p.53.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02115.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. IX. [Review of] An Oration on the Death of General Washington. By Governeur [sic] Morris. Delivered at the Request of the Corporation of the City of New-York, Dec. 31, 1799, and published by their Request. Furman, 1800, pp. 24. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. X. [Review of] A Funeral Oration, in honour of the memory of George Washington, late General of the Armies of the United States. Prepared and delivered at the request of Congress, at the German Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, on Thursday the 26th of December. By Major-General Henry Lee, one of the Representatives from the State of Virginia. 8vo. pp. 16. Brooklyn. Kirk. 1800.". Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XI. [Review of] An Oration on the apparent and real political situation of the United States; pronounced before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati, assembled at New-Haven for the celebration of American Independence, July 4, 1799. By Zechariah Lewis, a tutor of Yale College. 8vo. pp. 27. New-Haven. Green and Son. 1799. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XII. [Review of] A Prayer and Sermon, delivered at Charleston, Dec. 31, 1799, on the death of George Washington, late President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, &c. with an additional sketch of his life. By Jedediah Morse, D.D. Pastor of the Church in Charleston. To which is prefixed, an account of the proceedings of the town on the melancholy occasion; written by Josiah Bartlett, Esq. 8vo. pp. 82. Charleston. Etheridge. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XIV. [Review of] An Address to the Citizens of New-York, who assembled in the Brick Presbyterian Church, to celebrate the twenty-third Anniversary of American Inde-pendence. By Samuel L. Mitchill. 8vo. pp. 27. New-York. 1800. George F. Hopkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XV. [Review of] An Oration on the Death of General Washington, pronounced before the Citizens of Albany, on Thursday, January 9, 1800. By William P. Beers, Esq. pp. 17. 4to. Albany. C.R. & G. Webster. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. III [Review of] Essays...By...Count Rumford . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02139.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02155.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTStatements of destruction produced by the French Revolution. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03161.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTNote on Stephen Calvert. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Lesson on Concealment; or, Memoirs of Mary Selwyn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XVII. [Review of] A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the principal Phenomena of the Physical World which precede and accompany them; and Observations deduced from the Facts stated. In two volumes. 8vo. By Noah Webster. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1799. pp. 700. (Continued from p. 115). Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03208.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XVIII. [Review of] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. (Continued from p. 120) On the extraneous fossils…by George Turner. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XIX. [Review of] An Elegiac Poem on the Death of General Washington. By Charles Caldwell, A.M.M.D. Philadelphia. Bradford. pp. 12. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XX. [Review of] A Funeral Oration, occasioned by the Death of Gen. George Washington, delivered on the 1st of January, 1800, in the Episcopal Church of New-Rochelle, in the State of New-York. By Samuel Bayard, Esq. New-Brunswick. Blauvelt. pp. 24. 8vo. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXI. [Review of] An Eulogy on George Washington, late Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, who died December 14, 1799. Delivered be-fore the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at the request of their Committee. By George Richards Minot, A.M.A.A.S. Second Edition. Boston. Manning and Loring. pp. 24. 8vo. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXII. [Review of] A Funeral Eulogy, occasioned by the Death of General Wash-ington. Delivered Feb. 22, 1800, before the New-York State Society of Cincinnati. By William Linn, D.D. New-York. I. Collins. pp. 44. 8vo. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXIII. [Review of] An Eulogy on George Washington, delivered before the Inhabitants of the Town of Medford, agreeably to their Vote, and at the request of their Committee, on the 13th January, 1800. By John Brookes, A.M.M.M.S. and A.A.S. Boston. S. Hall. 8vo. pp. 15. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXIV. [Review of] An Oration on the Death of General Washington; delivered in the Dutch Church, in New-Brunswick, on the 22d February, 1800. By Frederick Frelinghuysen. New-Brunswick, New-Jersey. Blauvelt. 8vo. Pp. 23. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXV. [Review of] The Wild Youth: A Comedy for Digestion, in three Acts. Translated from the German of Kotzebue, by Charles Smith. 8vo. pp. 74. New York. 1800. [&] The Wild Goose Chase: A Play, in four Acts; with Songs. From the German of Augustus von Kotzebue. With Notes, marking the Variations from the Original. By William Dunlap. 8vo. pp. 104. Printed by G.F. Hopkins, for W. Dunlap. New York. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXVI. [Review of] A Discourse, delivered December 29, 1799, the Lord's-Day immediately following the melancholy Tidings of the Loss sustained by the Nation, in the Death of its most eminent Citizen, George Washington. By David Osgood, D.D. Pastor of the Church in Medford. 8vo. pp. 19. Boston. S. Hall. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Speculatist. No. I. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTRemarks on a Passage in Virgil. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Difference between History and Romance. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Literary Ware-House. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTMemoirs of Stephen Calvert. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from page 30.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04256.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn the Study of German. Dialogues of the Living: Dialogue III. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXVII. [Review of] A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases: with the principal Phenomena of the Physical World, which precede and accompany them; and Observations deduced from the Facts stated. In two vols. 8vo. By Noah Webster. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1799. pp. 700. ( Continued from p. 213, and concluded).". Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXIX. [Review of] A Funeral Oration, delivered at the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New-York, on the 22d day of February, 1800, being the day recommended by Congress to the Citizens of the United States, publicly to testify their Grief for the Death of General Washington: by appointment of a number of the Clergy of New-York, and published at their request. By John M. Mason, M.A. Pastor of the Associate-Reformed Church in the City of New-York. 8vo. pp. 23. New-York. George F. Hopkins. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXX. [Review of] An Eulogy on General George Washington, pronounced at Boston, on Wednesday, February 19, 1800, before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, by their appointment, and published at their request, by John Davis, Member of the Academy, &c. Boston. Spotswood. 1800. pp. 24. 4to.". Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXI. [Review of] An Oration upon the Death of General George Washington; delivered in the State-House, at Trenton, on the 14th January, 1800. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. President of the College of New-Jersey: and published at the desire of the Committee of the Citizens, &c. of Trenton, at whose request it was pronounced. Trenton. Craft. 8vo. pp. 45. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXII. [Review of] The Death of Washington, a Poem, in imitation of the manner of Ossian. By Rev. John Blair Linn, A.M. Minister of the first Presbyterian Congregation of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Ormrod. 8vo. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXIII. [Review of] A Poem; sacred to the Memory of George Washington, late President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States; adapted to the 22nd February, 1800. By Richard Alsop. 8vo. pp. 23. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn Early Attachments. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTWhat is Love?. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Modern Socrates. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTMemoirs of Stephen Calvert. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p. 284.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05330.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXIV. [Review of] A Treatise concerning Political Inquiry and Liberty of the Press. By Tunis Wortman, Counsellor at Law. New-York. Forman. 1800. 8vo. pp. 296. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXVI. [Review of] An Oration, delivered at Wethersfield, February 22d, 1800, on the Death of General Washington, who died December 14, 1799. By E.G. Marsh. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1800. 8vo. pp. 16. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXVIII. [Review of] An Eulogy of the Life of George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age. Written at the request of the Citizens of Newburyport, and delivered at the First Presbyterian Meeting House in that Town, January 2, 1800. By Thomas Paine [i.e. Robert Treat Paine], M.A. Newburyport. Blunt. 1800. 8vo. pp. 22. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“Americans!http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05354.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XXXIX. [Review of] An Oration on the Sublime Virtues of General George Wash-ington, pronounced at the Old South Meeting House, in Boston, before his Honour the Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and the two Branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, at their request, on Saturday the 8th of February, 1800. By Fisher Ames. Boston. Young and Minns. Manning and Loring. 1800. 8vo. pp. 31. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLI. [Review of] A Sermon, preached at Cambridge, on the Lord's Day, December 29, 1799, occasioned by the Death of George Washington, &c. By Abiel Holmes, M.A. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston. Hall. 1800. 8vo. pp. 22. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLII. [Review of] A Sermon, preached at Norwich (Connecticut), on hearing of the Death of General George Washington, &c. By Joseph Strong, Pastor of the First Church in Norwich. Norwich. Trumbull. 1800. 8vo. Pp. 17. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLV. [Review of] The Virgin of the Sun; a Play in five Acts, from the German of Augustus Von Kotzebue; with Notes, marking the variations from the Original. By Wil-liam Dunlap. New York. George F. Hopkins. 1800. 8vo. pp. 80. [&] The Virgin of the Sun; a Play in five Acts. Translated from the German of Kotzebue by Charles Smith. New York. 1800. 8vo. pp. 96. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Evils of Reserve in Marriage. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTMemoirs of Stephen Calvert. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Continued from p. 340 and concluded.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06413.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLVI. [Review of] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge [continued from p. 301 and concluded.] A Disquisition on Wool-bearing Animals. By Dr. J. Anderson, of Scotland. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06424.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLVIII. [Review of] A Sermon, delivered December 29, 1799, occasioned by the Death of General George Washington, late President of the United States, and the Com-mander in Chief of the American Armies. By Samuel Miller, A.M. one of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches in the City of New-York. T. and J. Swords. 1800. 8vo. pp. 39. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“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.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XLIX. [Review of] A Discourse, delivered at New-Haven, February 22, 1800, on the Character of George Washington, Esq. at the request of the Citizens. By Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College. New-Haven. Green and Son. 1800. 8vo. pp. 55. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn a Scheme for Describing American Manners. (Addressed to a Foreigner.). Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn a Taste for the Picturesque. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTDifferences Between Felicity and Happiness. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on the Origin of the Claims of Europeans to North-America. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Trials of Arden. Brown, Charles Brockden
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New-York, April, 1800.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07019.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTFriendship: An Original Letter. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. II. [Review of] An Address, in Latin, by Joseph Willard, S.T.D.LL.D. President, and a Discourse in English, by David Tappan, S.T.D. Hollis Professor of Divinity, delivered before the University in Cambridge, February 21, 1800, in solemn commemoration of General George Washington. 8vo. pp. 44. Etheridge. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. III. [Review of] An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia, relative to the Murder of Logan's Family. By Thomas Jefferson. 8vo. pp. 52. Philadelphia. Smith. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. IV. [Review of] Poems, by Samuel Low. In two volumes. 12mo. Vol. i. pp. 147. New York. T & J. Swords. 1800,. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. V. [Review of] A Discourse on the death of General Washington, late President of the United States: Delivered on the 22d day of February, 1800, in the Church of Williamsburg. By James Madison, D.D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, and President of William and Mary College. The 2d edition–corrected. 8vo. pp. 42. Printed in New-York, by T. & J. Swords, for W. Prichard, Richmond. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Scribbler.—No. I.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Scribbler.—No. II.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Scribbler.—No. III.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Scribbler.—No. IV.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Scribbler.—No. V.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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'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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Household. A Fragment. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTRemarks on Short-hand Writing. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTDifferences between Prejudice and Prepossession. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTOriginal Letters. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08101.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. IX. [Review of] Sermons, by the late Rev. John Clarke, D.D. Minister of the First Church in Boston, Massachusetts. 8vo. pp. 501. Boston. Hall. 1799. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08120.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XII [Review of ] Desultory Reflections on the New Political Aspects of Public Af-fairs in the United States of America, since the commencement of the year 1799. 8vo. pp. 62. New-York, printed for the Author, by G. and R. Waite, and published by J.W. Fenno. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08131.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XIV. [Review of] A Sermon on the Propriety of attending Public Worship, and an attentive, serious Conduct in the House of God. By John Eliot, D.D. Minister of the New North Church, Boston. 8vo. pp. 36. Boston. Russell. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141a.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XV. [Review of] A Discourse, delivered April 1st, 1800, in the Brick Presbyterian Church, before the New York Missionary Society, at their Annual Meeting. By William Linn, D.D. one of the Ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York. 8vo. pp. 40. New York. I. Collins, 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141b.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XVI [Review of] A Discourse on the Character and Death of General George Washington, delivered at Ipswich, on the 22nd February, A.D. 1800. By Joseph Dana, A.M. Pastor of the South Church in that place. 8vo. pp.28. Newburyport. Blunt. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143b.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XVIII. [Review of] A Sermon, delivered at Newburyport, on the 22nd February, 1800. By the Rev. John Boddily, Minister in the Second Presbyterian Church in said town. 8vo. pp. 15. Newburyport. Blunt. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143c.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XIX. [Review of] An Oration, delivered in St. Paul's Church, on the 4th of July, 1800, before the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, and other Associations and Citizens. By M.L. Davis, of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. 8vo. pp. 21. New York. W.A. Davis. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143d.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTArt. XX. [Review of] Mount Vernon, a Poem by John Searson, formerly of Philadelphia, Merchant. 8vo. Philadelphia. R. Folwell. 1800. Brown, Charles Brockden
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