http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f128-date%3D1798 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f128-date=1798 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml I KNOW not whether my pen will afford me any amusement in my present condition. I have been little accustomed to the use of it, but I have nothing else to do, and my pre- sent situation stands in need of being beguiled of its cares. I am without books, and am not permitted to leave my chamber. I have, therefore, no alternative. This, or nothing is my lot. I cannot consent to pass a life of inactivity. But what shall I write? There is something whimsical in this undertaking. For a man of my ha- bits, at the age of sixty, to sit down to the writing desk! Nothing would have been less expected a month ago, and nothing but the unfortunate cir- cumstances in which I am placed would reconcile me to it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml Tue, 03 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml GO thy ways for an honest crea- ture. I cannot explain to thee, in an intelligible way, the true nature of my condition; or perhaps I might be disposed to gratify thy curiosity. I have no need to dread from thee any imputations on the honesty of my proceeding. Casuists have, long ago, settled that point. By casuists such as thou, it would never be brought into question. That action may be wrong, which law has thought proper to prohibit and punish. He that per- petrates it may be truly criminal. The action by which we incur punish- ment is unjust, but what is to be said of the means by which we elude the penalty? No doubt an highwayman is criminal, but after the commission of the deed, he endeavours to elude his pursuers. Do these endeavours enhance his guilt? When taken, and dungeon-doomed, and fettered, does duty restrain him from breaking his chains, and restoring himself, by the exertion of dexterity or strength, to liberty? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml Tue, 10 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml I AM sitting here employed in this way, from a notion that it is the only practicable employment: It is the only exercise, as I suppose, within my reach. This perhaps is an error. In one sense my sphere is a small one. My observation is limited to an area of twelve feet square; but surely it becomes me to examine every thing within this space. If it be small, the examination is proportionably easy. If our means are few, the motives seem to be enhanced for making the best use of them of which they are capable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml Tue, 17 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml I HAVE talked with Kate upon the subject of this chest. Her infor- mation, as I expected, is not very satisfactory. When she first applied for this house it was untenanted. Its recent inhabitants had been destroyed by the reigning malady. The scanty furniture that was possessed by them, had been partly sold by the landlord for the payment of arrears. The rest, such as beds and clothes, had been buried or burnt, on account of the in- fection which they were supposed to have imbibed. The seeming worth- lessness of this trunk, and the difficulty of removing it, had rescued it from the general wreck. In the terms which he made with Kate, the landlord al- lowed her to act, with regard to this piece of furniture, as she thought proper. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml Tue, 24 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml BAXTER, after taking some re- freshment, retired to rest. In no long time, however, he was awakened by his wife, who desired him to notice a certain glimmering on the ceiling. It seemed the feeble and flitting ray of a distant and moving light, coming through the window. It did not proceed from the street, for the cham- ber was lighted from the side, and not from the front of the house. A lamp borne by a passenger, or the attendants of an hearse, could not be discovered in this situation. Besides, in the latter case, it would be accom- panied by the sound of the vehicle, and, probably, by weeping and ex- clamations of despair. His employ- ment, as the guardian of property, naturally suggested to him the idea of robbery. He started from his bed, and went to the window. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml Tue, 03 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml PAGES have been filled with ideas suggested by a broom-stick. I have a volume, under that title, in my possession. The writer follows the train of ideas suggested by the sight of this useful instrument, and is led by it on many an instructive and amusing ramble. His speculations, indeed, are bound together by no other affinity than this. It is curious to observe what various and momen- tous themes take their rise in his un- derstanding, from this humble source. He first discusses the nature of that principle, by which the sight of a broom-stick is made productive of a series of thoughts in the mind. In the course of this speculation he raises a scheme of his own on the ruins of that system which changes man into a pair of bag-pipes, and makes out the contexture of his body to be nothing more than a congeries of fiddle-strings. He endeavours to prove, that the hand is lifted and planets impelled by the same power, and that this power is thought. Having settled this point, he proceeds to describe the thoughts t... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml Tue, 10 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml I AM disappointed, though the cha- grin of disappointment has perhaps been justly incurred by me, since my expectations were set on irrational foundations. I have opened, and find —nothing! I will take, however, a child's vengeance on the cause of my vexation. I will hew the chest to pieces, and convert the fragments into fuel. Henceforth it shall be my busi- ness to forget it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03198.xml I CALLED, last evening on Mrs. Carter. I had no previous ac- quaintance with her. Her brother is a man of letters, who, nevertheless, finds little leisure from the engage- ments of a toilsome profession. He scarcely spends an evening at home, yet takes care to invite, specially and generally to his house, every one who enjoys the reputation of learning and probity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03198.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03202.xml virgil. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03202.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml WELL, old as I am, I find I am reserved for an extraordinary fate. “Nil desperandum” was ever my motto; and yet, in the present case, I suffered appearances to snatch it from me. For a time, I thought my search was at an end—that the trunk was useless for any purpose but that of kindling a blaze. When black Will came to cut my wood, I desired my good woman to bring me up his axe for three minutes, and I proceeded to break up the chest. It is nothing, thought I, but useless lumber. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03228.xml [In our last number notice was given of a New Work of Invention and Reflection, which is ready to be offered to public patronage. The nature of its design, the singularity of its title, the circumstance of its being written by a native citizen of Philadelphia, and of its being on the point of soliciting the encourage- ment of the public, have induced us, for the satisfaction of our readers, to solicit, from the author, the privilege of making an extract from his manuscript. Although unable to fix on any part capable of conveying a perfect idea of the whole, we trust the following may serve as a specimen of the work.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03228.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03231.xml I SHALL not stop to describe the company, or to dwell on those embarrassments and awkwardnesses always incident to an unpolished wight like me. Suffice it to say, that I was, in a few minutes, respectfully withdrawn into a corner, and, fortu- nately, a near neighbour of the lady. To her, after much deliberation and forethought, I addressed myself thus: “Pray, Madam, are you a fœde- ralist?” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03231.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml MISS De Moivre did not fail to remind me of my promise when I next saw her. I repeated that the task which she assigned to me, was arduous. It was perhaps impossible to say what species of employment was most beneficial. Some might be mentioned from which unquestionable benefits would flow. It is worthy of a rational being to weigh with scru- pulous exactness; to chuse that only which is intrinsically preferable. This, however, is your own province, not mine. I will point out one method, and state the recommendations that belong to it. Judge you whether it outgoes in excellence all others. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml Tue, 31 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03271.xml IT is evident, continued my compa- nion, that for some reason or other, the liberal professions, those which re- quire most vigour of mind, greatest ex- tent of knowledge, and most commerce with books and with enlightened so- ciety, are occupied only by men. If contrary instances occur, they are rare, and must be considered as ex- ceptions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03271.xml Tue, 31 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04000.xml THE following Dialogue was put into my hands, the last spring, by a friend who resides at a distance, with liberty to make it public. I have since been informed that he has continued the discussion of the subject, in another dialogue. The reception which the present publication shall meet with will probably de- termine the author to withhold or print the conti- nuation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04000.xml Mon, 27 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04289.xml THE second period of Miss De Moivre's life was still more worthy to be exhibited. She was now become a woman, and was preparing to return to her father, when a letter from him informed her of a change in his plans. He was considerably capricious, and had roamed about so much, that he found it impossible to remain long in one place. Add to this, a sudden scheme that occurred to him of ex- ploring the southern side of mount Jura, as a botanist. Every thing must yield to the gratification of his darling passion. He immediately re- solved to sell his property in St. Do- mingo and return to France, and of this, timely information was received by his daughter. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04289.xml Tue, 07 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04299.xml THIS remark was succeeded by a pause on both sides. The lady seemed more inclined to listen than talk. At length I ventured to resume the conversation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04299.xml Tue, 07 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04318.xml A. Z. requests to be informed of the meaning of the title of the work lately announced, for publication, in this Maga- zine. In answer to him, it may be said that “Sky Walk,” is nothing more than a popular corruption of “Ski Wakkee,” or Big Spring, the name given by the Lenni Lennassee, or Delaware Indians, to the district where the principal scenes of this novel are transacted. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04318.xml Tue, 07 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04320.xml WHAT a series of calamities is the thread of human existence? I have heard of men who, though free themselves from any uncommon distress, were driven to suicide by reflecting on the misery of others. They employed their imagination in running over the catalogue of human woes, and were so affected by the spectacle, that they willingly resorted to death to shut it from their view. No doubt their minds were consti- tuted after a singular manner. We are generally prone, when objects chance to present to us their gloomy side, to change their position, till we hit upon the brightest of its aspects. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04320.xml Tue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04323.xml A CORRESPONDENT in your last number has enquired into the usefulness of theatres. The question has often been discussed, but, perhaps, never in a manner perfectly satisfac- tory. Subjects of this kind are very complex, and the foundation of our reasonings lies much deeper than is commonly supposed. The question may be stated in the compass of a page, but could not be thoroughly discussed in less than a volume. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04323.xml Tue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04326.xml “LET us turn down this avenue,” said I to Matilda, as we were the other day, walking in the State-House yard. “It is true, the foliage has not yet sufficiently expanded to shield us from the glare of a noon-day sun. The approach of summer is, as yet, announced only by the swelling of the buds, and the balmy vernal breeze. Yet this situation is more favourable to observation on the busy human scene before us, and we are ourselves more secluded from notice than in the main walk. It is thus I love to sur- vey the world. Whether my views extend to an empire, or are bounded by an acre, I still wish to place my- self, as it were, behind the scene. My youth, my sex, and inexperience, fur- nish my apology for the indulgence of this timidity. I am sensible, times and occasions may occur in which it would be criminal. But they who have still to exert their whole energy to dispel the mist of ignorance and prejudice by which they are enveloped; whose whole attention is requisite to weed from their own minds the seeds of ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04326.xml Tue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04352.xml IT is amusing to remark in what va- rious points of view the passion of love has been considered. I was lately perusing an author*, whose theory * Darwin's Zoonomia. Eratomania. had more novelty, and wore an air of greater paradox than I have hitherto met with. He is a physician who makes a threefold classification of diseases. The two first classes are fashioned on a new, but on no fantasti- cal model. If there be any truth in the customary distinctions, these are suf- ficiently within the province of the medical art. Many of the articles that constitute the third class have hitherto been assigned to the mo- ralist. This writer, however, very gravely arranges them in his cata- logue, annexes a technical descrip- tion, and prescribes the “modus medendi.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04352.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04357.xml TO ascertain the tendency of plays is by no means difficult. There is no more powerful mode of winning the attention, and swaying the pas- sions of mankind. Mental power is quite a different consideration from the moral application of that power. Genius affords no security from error. The writers of plays have been gene- rally necessitous and profligate. They have therefore written under the in- fluence of wrong conceptions of duty and happiness; and, in order to effect their purpose, which was gain, have deemed themselves obliged to hu- mour the caprices and pamper the vicious appetites, of those who fre- quent these spectacles. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04357.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04360.xml WHETHER most good, or most evil flows from theatrical exhi- bitions? appears to be a question a correspondent wishes to have decided. This question has given rise to vari- ous thoughts, on the subject; should they lead to the wished-for decision they are at T. Markright's service. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04360.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04364.xml THE series of original letters, enclo- sed, came by chance into my possession. I send them to you with permission to publish them, though without the con- currence of the writers. Their consent I have reason to believe would be given if it were asked; but the distance of their present abode, rendering that impossible, we must dispense with it. The only liberty I have taken is to substitute, in some cases, fictitious for real names. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04364.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04383.xml TO be sure! Yet retire for a while: I shall not leap out of the window to escape you. I am weary of my present habitation, and should, in a few days, have put myself within your power. I have not the least objection to this visit, though, I must own, it was somewhat unex- pected. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04383.xml Tue, 28 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04389.xml Burlington, May * 7, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04389.xml Tue, 28 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04391.xml Philada. May 10, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04391.xml Tue, 28 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05008.xml Burlington, May 14, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05008.xml Tue, 05 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05035.xml Of the Fundamental Principles on which General Establishments for the Relief of the Poor may be formed in all Countries. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05035.xml Tue, 12 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05038.xml EVERY man is more or less a schemer. It is amusing to remark the various kinds of schemers which exist in the world. Some are busied in forming projects for lessening the expenses of their family, and others for augmenting the amount of their revenue. By far the greater part of mankind range themselves in the latter class; not a few are employed in the former way; and the number is not inconsiderable of those whose schemes have no other object than how to spend with most profusion. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05038.xml Tue, 12 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05046.xml Burlington, May 21, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05046.xml Tue, 12 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05065.xml THE subjects hitherto discussed by this writer relate, generally, to the best mode of supplying the neces- sities of the poor. They are topics, therefore, in a considerable degree, political. The field of enquiry in the third essay is interesting, in dif- ferent degrees, but in a direct man- ner to every individual. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05065.xml Tue, 19 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05069.xml Philadelphia, May 25, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05069.xml Tue, 19 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05071.xml ARCHIBALD was a youth of very lively parts. His sensibility had be- come diseased by an assiduous study of those Romancers and Poets, who make love the basis of their fictions. He had scarcely grown up, when he contracted a passion for a woman, whose chief merit consisted in her beauty. A new object quickly suc- ceeded: Though he loved for a time with every appearance of ardour, it was perceived that his affections were easily transferred to a new object, and easily dissolved by absence. Love however, was his element: He could not exist without it. To sigh, to muse, to frame elegies, was the busi- ness of his life. Provided there was some object to receive his amorous devoirs, it seemed nearly indifferent what the real qualifications of the object were. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05071.xml Tue, 19 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05097.xml AMONG all kinds of vegetable food, Count Rumford assigns the pre- ference to Indian corn. The exten- sive use of it in Italy, under the name of Pallenta, and in North America, evinces its nutritiousness and whole- someness. In the countries cultivated by negro slaves, it is generally pre- ferred by them to rice, which they account the more fugitive and less substantial food. In addition to this, it is known to be producible in larger quantities than other grain; hence the propriety of encouraging the cul- tivation and extending the use of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05097.xml Tue, 26 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05103.xml Philadelphia, May 30, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05103.xml Tue, 26 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06129.xml THE remaining part of this essay is of less importance than the fore- going. We have already dwelt so copiously on this work, that little will be said on that which still re- mains to be noticed. We shall over- look his commentaries upon cut paste or maccaroni. The ingredients are not cheap, nor the process easy; and it is not prepared by professed cooks, in this country. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06129.xml Tue, 02 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06135.xml Philadelphia, June 3d, 1794. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06135.xml Tue, 02 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06193.xml I WAS resident in this city during the year 1793. Many motives con- tributed to detain me, though depar- ture was easy and commodious, and my friends were generally solicitous for me to go. It is not my purpose to enumerate these motives, or to dwell on my present concerns and transactions, but merely to compose a narrative of some incidents with which my situation made me ac- quainted. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06193.xml Tue, 16 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06221.xml AS lonely o'er my little fire, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06221.xml Tue, 16 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06226.xml MY natal soil is Chester County. My father had a small farm on which he has been able, by industry, to maintain himself and a numerous fa- mily. He has had many children, but some defect in the constitution of our mother has been fatal to all of them but me. They died succes- sively as they attained the age of nineteen or twenty, and since I have not yet reached that age I may rea- sonably look for the same premature fate. In the spring of last year my mother followed her fifth child to the grave, and three months after- wards died herself. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06226.xml Tue, 23 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06232.xml WHAT is the difference between Newton's method of Fluxions and the differential calculus of D'Alem- bert? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06232.xml Tue, 23 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06257.xml I ROSE at the dawn, and without asking or bestowing a blessing, sallied forth into the high road to the city which passed near the house. I left nothing behind, the loss of which I regretted. I had purchased most of my own books with the product of my own separate industry, and their number being, of course, small, I had, by incessant application, gotten the whole of them by rote. They had ceased, therefore, to be of any further use. I left them, without reluctance, to the fate for which I knew them to be reserved, that of affording food and habitation to mice. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06257.xml Tue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06277.xml THE following anecdote relative to ventriloquism, contains some humour and is related by most undoubted au- thority, viz. Adrianus Turnebus, the greatest critic of the sixteenth cen- tury, who was admired and respected by all the learned in Europe. “There was a crafty fellow,” says he, “called Petrus Brabantius, who, as often as he pleased, would speak from his belly, with his mouth indeed open, but his lips unmoved, of which I have been repeatedly eye and ear-witness. In this manner he put divers cheats on several persons: amongst others, the following was well known:— There was a merchant of Lyons, lately dead, who had acquired a great estate by unjust dealings. Brabantius happening to be at Lyons, and hearing of this, comes one day to Cornutus, the son and heir of this merchant, as he walked in a portico behind the church-yard, and tells him that he was sent to inform him of what was to be done by him, and that it was more requisite to think of the soul and reputation of his father, than thus wander about ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06277.xml Tue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06278.xml TAKE an old castle; pull down a part of it, and allow the grass to grow on the battlements, and provide the owls and bats with uninterrupted ha- bitations among the ruins. Pour a sufficient quantity of heavy rain upon the hinges and bolts of the gates, so that when they are attempted to be opened, they may creak most fear- fully. Next take an old man and woman, and employ them to sleep in a part of this castle, and provide them with frightful stories of lights that appear in the western or the eastern tower every night, and of music heard in the neighbouring woods, and ghosts dressed in white who perambulate the place. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06278.xml Tue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06285.xml THOUGH long, my lyre, unstrung, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06285.xml Tue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06286.xml IN vain, with ardent eye and daring hand, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06286.xml Tue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07290.xml WE arrived at a brick wall through which we passed by a gate into an extensive court or yard. The dark- ness would allow me to see nothing but outlines. Compared with the pigmy dimensions of my father's wooden hovel, the buildings before me were of gigantic loftiness. The horses were here far more magnifi- cently accommodated than I had been. By a large door we entered an elevated hall. “Stay here,” said he, “just while I fetch a light.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07290.xml Tue, 07 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07297.xml IN this age of free enquiry, it is rather surprising to find that no one has undertaken more fully to investi- gate the character of that being who is emphatically stiled in the language of Holy Writ “the evil one.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07297.xml Tue, 07 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07317.xml HOW rare it is in man to find, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07317.xml Tue, 07 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07322.xml NOW I was once more on public ground. By so many anxious efforts had I disengaged myself from the perilous precincts of private property. As many stratagems as are usually made to enter an house, had been employed by me to get out of it. I was urged to the use of them by my fears; yet so far from carrying off spoil, I had escaped with the loss of an essential part of my dress. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07322.xml Tue, 14 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07370.xml THIS memoir was read before the American Philosophical Society, and will appear in the next volume of the Transactions of that learned body. In the interim, the author has caused a few copies to be printed for distri- bution, but not for sale. He did not, however, content himself with merely committing his original paper to the press, but considerably altered and somewhat enlarged it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07370.xml Tue, 21 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07394.xml HAVING thus disposed of the doctrines of some of his predecessors, Dr. Barton proceeds to say: “The result of not a little attention to the subject has taught me, that there is but one wonder in the business;— the wonder that the story should ever have been believed by a man of understanding, and of observation.” —Fascination, we are informed, is almost entirely limited to birds that build low, and “in almost every instance, I found that the supposed fascinating faculty of the serpent was exerted upon the birds at the particu- lar season of their laying their eggs, of their hatching, or of their rearing their young, still tender, and defence- less. I now began to suspect, that the cries and fears of birds supposed to be fascinated originated in an en- deavour to protect their nest or young. My enquiries have convinced me that this is the case.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07394.xml Tue, 28 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08008.xml IN a short time the lady retired. I naturally expected that some com- ments would be made on her beha- viour, and that the cause of her sur- prise and distress on seeing me, would be explained, but Welbeck said no- thing on that subject. When she had gone, he went to the window and stood for some time occupied, as it seemed, with his own thoughts. Then he turned to me and, calling me by my name, desired me to accompany him up stairs. There was neither cheerfulness nor mildness in his ad- dress, but neither was there any thing domineering or arrogant. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08008.xml Tue, 04 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08033.xml AFTER viewing various parts of the city; intruding into churches; and diving into alleys, I returned. The rest of the day I spent chiefly in my chamber, reflecting on my new con- dition; surveying my apartment, its presses and closets; and conjecturing the causes of appearances. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08033.xml Tue, 11 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08065.xml THIS extraordinary interview was now passed. Pleasure as well as pain attended my reflections on it. I ad- hered to the promise I had improvi- dently given to Welbeck, but had excited displeasure, and perhaps sus- picion in the lady. She would find it hard to account for my silence. She would probably impute it to per- verseness, or imagine it to flow from some incident connected with the death of Clavering, calculated to give a new edge to her curiosity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08065.xml Tue, 18 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08101.xml WELBECK did not return tho' hour succeeded hour till the clock struck ten. I inquired of the ser- vants, who informed me that their master was not accustomed to stay out so late. I seated myself at a ta- ble, in the parlour, on which there stood a light, and listened for the signal of his coming, either by the found of steps on the pavement with- out, or by a peal from the bell. The silence was uninterrupted and pro- found, and each minute added to my sum of impatience and anxiety. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08101.xml Tue, 25 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-09000.xml I Feel little reluctance in complying with your request. You know not fully the cause of my sorrows. You are a stranger to the depth of my distresses. Hence your efforts at consolation must necessarily fail. Yet the tale that I am going to tell is not intended as a claim upon your sympathy. In the midst of my despair, I do not disdain to con- tribute what little I can to the benefit of mankind. I acknowledge your right to be informed of the events that have lately happened in my family. Make what use of the tale you shall think proper. If it be communicated to the world, it will incul- cate the duty of avoiding deceit. It will exemplify the force of early impressions, and show the im- measurable evils that flow from an erroneous or imperfect discipline. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-09000.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-084.xml It is nearly twelve months since I parted from you. I believe I have not written to you nor you written to me since. How shall I account for your silence? The task is an easy one. I was not an object of sufficient important to justify the trouble. My infirmities & follies were too rooted for you to hope their cure. Admonition & remonstrance under your own hand, would be superfluous to this end. Hence your habitual reserve & silence of the pen suffered no in= =terruption on my account. I lived with you six months. During that time you, no doubt scrutinized my conduct & character with accuracy. You must have formed some conclusions respecting me, but you thought proper to be silent respecting them. You weighed the opposite advantages of communication & reserve. You decided in favour of the latter. I revere your rectitude my friend, in as great a degree as I detest my own imbecility: but it is allo... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-084.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-085.xml Tuesday, Jany. 2. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-085.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-086.xml Tuesday, March 27. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown informing me of his intended marriage, that his first novel is complete, & that he writes “The Man at Home” in the Phila. Weekly Magazine. This magazine I sought[?] & purchased, at least such Nos. as have come to hand—& read his pieces & several others. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-086.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-087.xml Monday, 9. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-087.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-088.xml Tuesday, 17. Called at Dunlap’s & found him re- turned. Charles had written by him, but he has lost the letter—a careless fellow! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-088.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-089.xml Tuesday, 24. Rec’d a letter from C. B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-089.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-090.xml Tuesday, 24. Rec’d a letter from C. B. Brown. It inclosed one for Miss Susan Potts—who is his Mistress—& who came to town yesterday. I de- livered it, & have seen her. Without being beautiful— she is very interesting. Our talk was on common topics, as there was a third person present, but it evinced good sense. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-090.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-091.xml Monday, April 30. A short letter from C. B. Brown. He will not visit us. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-091.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-092.xml Monday, 7th. Saw Miss [Potts] sail off in the Amboy Boat, for Bordentown. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown. My answer to him will contain my sentiments of this young lady. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-092.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-093.xml Tuesday, 22. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown & answered it at some length. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-093.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-094.xml Saturday, 9. I recd. a few lines from C. B. Brown—& continued Hugh Trevor. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-094.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-095.xml In a letter to his brother James, dated the twenty-fifth of August, 1798, after mentioning his literary plans, for he was then preparing to publish “Wieland,” and the project of a Ma- gazine for his profit had been suggested; he concludes thus: “heavy rains, uncleansed sinks, and a continuance of unexam- pled heat, has within these ten days, given birth to the yellow fever among us, in its epidemical form. Death and alarms have rapidly multiplied, but it is hoped that now, as formerly, its influence will be limited to one place. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-095.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-096.xml This romantic turn was not a sudden effervescence, but a steady rule and principle of action. He derived his motives of duty from sources entirely different from ordinary men. Taking the extremest boundary of duty as his starting point, he followed the principle down through all its bearings until he brought it home to himself. As an instance of this, while the city of New York was infected with the yellow fever, Charles had visited his friends at that place. His brother alarmed for his safety pressed him by letter immediately to return to Philadelphia. The re- ply of Charles was, that if he had been afflicted with that mala- dy while on his visit, he should have required the kind offices of his friends. He had, he said, further to reflect, that as he should undoubted¬ly... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-096.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-097.xml On the fourth of September he writes thus to his brother James, justifying his continuance in New York. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-097.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-098.xml [Sept.] 5th Receive letters & papers frm N.Y. Letter from Brown, Johnson, & Smith http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-098.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-099.xml The letters which at this time he wrote to his brother James were in answer to earnest entreaties of his family that he would fly from New York as they had done from Philadelphia, where the pestilence raged with equal malignity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-099.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-100.xml So! a postscript, from whom? An impertinent fellow, I am affraid you will call him; And yet that is a fib. I have no fear of this kind about me. Whatever is a token of genuine respect cannot but be acceptable to Maria Nicholson. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-100.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-101.xml On Sunday morning the seventeenth of September, Brown writes thus to his brother. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-101.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-102.xml [Sept.] 18th 10 OClock receive a letter from C B Brown & Wm Johnson they have with [them] in the house Signor [Joseph B.] Scandella an Italian Physician, dangerously ill of the fever under the care of Elihu. Brown wishes to come down here; I have written to him & Johnson to come down immediately. to Elihu, my apprehensions for his safety & my confidence in his doing his duty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-102.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103.xml Of his feelings at this time we must judge by his letters. The day before the death of his friend, he thus addresses his brother. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103A.xml Inclosed is the letter that I promised to send thee. Though short it can hardly fail of interesting thee, as relative to thy friend Elihu. I shall go, in a few days, to Perth Amboy, where thou wilt not suppose that a Script from thee can prove unacceptable. Thou wilt of course preserve this letter till my return,~~ http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103A.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-104.xml 21stWell my beloved friend! It may afford you some satisfaction to recognize my hand once more tho’ vague & feeble in a degree that astonishes myself. I can add little to what is before said by William. Most ardently do I long to shut out this City from my view but my strength has been, within these few days, so totally & unaccount- ably subverted, that I can scarcely flatter myself with being able, very shortly, to remove. I do not understand my own case, but see enough to discover that the combination of bodily & mental causes have made such deep inroads on the vital energies of brain & stomach, I am afraid I cannot think of departing before Monday at the least. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-104.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-105.xml In another letter he says “ the weather has lately changed for the better, and hopes are generally entertained that the pestilence, for so it may truly be called, will decline. As to myself, I certainly improve, though slowly, and now entertain very slight apprehensions of danger to myself. Still I am anxious to leave the city. To go to Amboy and remain there for some time, will be most eligible. This calamity has endeared the survivors of the sacred fellowship, W. D., W. J. and myself to each other in a very high degree; and I con- fess my wounded spirit, and shattered frame, will be most likely to be healed and benefitted by their society. Permit me therefore, to decline going with you to Burlington. For a little while at least.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-105.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106.xml The next day, September twenty-fifth, Charles addressed his brother from Perth Amboy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106A.xml Amboy. Octo. 20. 1798 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106A.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-107.xml New York, December 20th, 1798. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-107.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-108.xml After some hesitation, a stranger to the person, though not to the character of Thomas Jefferson, ventures to intreat his acceptance of the volume by which this is accompanied. He is unacquainted with the degree in which your time & attention is engrossed by your public office: he knows not in what way your studious hours are distributed, & whether mere works of imagination & invention are not exclud= =ed from your notice. He is even doubtful whether this letter will be opened or read or, if read, whether its contents will not be instantly dismissed from your memory; so much a stranger is he, though a citizen of the United States, to the private occupations & modes of judging of the most illustrious of his fellow Citizens. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-108.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-109.xml In the month of December, 1798, he thus details to his brother Armit, a plan for a magazine. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-109.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-MP020.xml Tis party that destroys the state http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-MP020.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-MP021.xml From Virtue's blissful paths away http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-MP021.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05006.xml An Account of an Establishment for the Poor at Munich. Together with a Detail of various Public Measures, connected with that Institution, which have been adopted and carried into Effect for putting an End to Mendicity, and introducing Order, and useful Industry, among the more indigent of the Inhabi- tants of Bavaria. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05006.xml Tue, 05 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT