http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f130-date%3D1809%3A%3A01%3A%3A01 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f130-date=1809::01::01 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-00000.xml ONE who proposes to present to the world a new system of geography, may reasonably be asked, if the world be not already in possession of a sufficient number of such works. To this it may be answered, that an addition to their number can produce no inconvenience, since the works already extant on this subject will not be necessarily superseded or ex- cluded from the library or closet by a new publication; and that some positive advantage will arise from multiplying the objects of our choice. The more candidates there are for public favour, the more beneficial is the choice that may be made among them. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-00000.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01021.xml John Blair Linn was descended from ancestors who originally came from the British islands. They appear to have been emi- grants at an early period, and to have given their descendants as just a claim to the title of American, as the nature of things will al- low any civilized inhabitant of the United States to acquire. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01021.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01057.xml I have often been struck by the different value which men annex to their own literary productions, and to those of others. It is not simply that the fame and success of our own performance is dear to us, that we wish it to be read, studied and admired for the sake of being extolled or revered by others, as the authors of so much eloquence or wisdom. We feel unspeakable compla- cency and satisfaction in the survey of the work; review it fre- quently and with new pleasure, and when it has been laid aside or disappeared so long as to be nearly forgotten, we fasten upon in anew with the utmost eagerness, and give it a dozen succes- sive readings without satiety or weariness. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-01057.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02129.xml The succeeding two years of his life passed in diligent and suc- cessful application to the duties of his pastoral office. The incre- sing infirmities of his venerable colleague made these duties in no small degree heavy to a young man, who was just beginning his career, and who, as yet, had not acquired the benefits of pre- paration and experience. Heavy though they were, and punc- tual and meritorious as was his diligence in their performance, his active spirit found leisure to compose two poems, the last of which was of considerable length, during this interval. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02129.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02162.xml Those who write without affording any pleasure except to them- selves may be aptly distinguished by the name of Scribblers, but what name shall we confer on those who read with the same limited effects; without being inclined or enabled by their reading to please or benefit others? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02162.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02165.xml —He is an unfortunate kinsman of ours (said Mrs. Ellen) who has been, for some years, a lunatic. She related his story, on my manifest- ing a curiosity to know the particulars, at some length. This was the substance of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-02165.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03000.xml THE fourth volume of the American Register is now presented to the public. The editor indulges the hope that it will be found to contain materials of more value and variety than any former volume. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03000.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03004.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03004.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03067.xml THE precise boundaries of Louisiana, on the north, and west are very extensive, but are at present somewhat doubtful. From the source of the Missisippi, it is bounded eastward by the middle of the channel of that river to the thirty-first degree of latitude: thence, according to its limits, when formerly possessed by France, it stretches eastward as far, at least, as the river Perdigo, which runs into the bay of Mexico, east of the river Mobille. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03067.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03195.xml To those early and memorable proofs of literary excellence, Mr. Linn was indebted for the honour of the degree of doctor in divinity, conferred upon him about this time, by the university of Pennsylvania. This honor, never before, probably, conferred upon so young a man, was decreed with a zealous unanimity. It may be deemed the spontaneous reward of merit, since, so far from being sought for or claimed by Mr. Linn, neither he nor his familiar friends entertained the least suspicion of the design, before it was carried into execution. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-03195.xml Wed, 01 Mar 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04000.xml TWO years have now elapsed since the publication of the American Register, a work previously unattempted in America. The experiment, so doubtful at first, the Editor has had the sa- tisfaction to believe, has not been unsuccessful. Experience has likewise instructed him in the best form for such a publication, and enabled him gradually to mould the plan of it, in conformtiy to the judgment of the public. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04000.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04001.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04001.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04211.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04211.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04253.xml DIED on the 17th Decem- ber, 1808, at Goshen, on the river Muskingum, state of Ohio, the Rev. David Zeisberger, senior missionary of the united brethren among the Indians, aged eighty seven years and nearly seven months. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04253.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04338.xml Ridicule, says some one, is the test of truth. If we judge by the ordinary practice of mankind, this opinion seems to be generally adopted, for nothing is more common than to use this weapon against those whose conduct or opinions, we disapprove; yet, why this opinion has been sanctioned by the approbation of all, and the practice of as many as are qualified for the undertaking, I am quite at a loss to con- ceive. The purpose which ridicule designs to effect is laughter, and the means adopted for this end are universally, an aggravation, dis- tortion, or concealment of the truth. It is absolutely necessary to heigh- ten the natural colours of most objects, to enlarge their proper linea- ments and features, or to show some of them disconnected with others, which are their genuine attendants, in order to render them ridiculous. If we examine any instance of ridicule, either in books, or conversa- tion, we shall not fail to find it such as I have mentioned. If we are acquainted with the original of which the lu... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04338.xml Sat, 01 Apr 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04348.xml This account is chiefly drawn from the Mercuris Peruanœ, publish- ed at Lima, an abstract of this work appeared in the Edinburgh review for January, 1807, and the following sketch is drawn from that abstract, and from some other sources. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04348.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04378a.xml By an act of Congress passed February 3d. 1809, it is ordained that after the 1st of March ensu- ing, all that part of the Indiana territory which lies west of the Wabash river in a direct line drawn from the said Wabash ri- ver and post Vincennes, due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, shall, for the purpose of temporary go- vernment, constitute a separate territory, and be called Illinois. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04378a.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04378b.xml Above thirty years ago, when it became necessary to resist the encroaching power of a British parliament with all the wisdom and spirit of the country, a gene- ral Congress was called at Phila- delphia. It was chosen as a cen- tral point, in the middlemost of of the middle colonies–itself the most populous of the American cities. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04378b.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04380.xml (The following has been glean- ed from a British publication and is published here merely for the sake of the facts, it contains. The dignity and wisdom annexed to Miranda and his projects, by this writer, appears to the editor quite absurd). http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-04380.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-05421.xml There are a great many wise sayings current on the worthless- ness of wealth and power; or rather on their positive and universal tendency to injure the possessor, to deprave his morals and subvert his happiness. Judging from the invectives of the teachers of mankind, one would think that rank, office, and riches would be as sedulously avoided, by those who desire to be happy, as any other road to ruin. Yet no one seems to be the better for these admonitions. People tug at the oar as strenuously, they manage the helm as vigilantly as ever, of that bark, by which they expect to gain the haven of riches and power. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-05421.xml Mon, 01 May 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-07029.xml Your countrymen, said a splenetic friend of mine, who has travel- led a good deal in America, are a nation of readers. Taking one with another, a far greater number of the people devote some of their time to reading, than of any other nation of the world. In Great Britain, France, and Germany, those who do, or who can read, bear a very small proportion to the rest. They are scarcely one in twenty; but in America almost every man is a student. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-07029.xml Sat, 01 Jul 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-08124.xml The writers of periodical essays frequently confess themselves very much at a loss for a subject. This is a little surprising to those who consider the essential and unlimited variety of human thought, and even those who prescribe to themselves a task of this kind, while they are often sensible of this difficulty, cannot but wonder that it should ever prove to be such. Even when they narrow their view, from the consideration of subjects in general, to that of subjects proper for them to discuss, the variety is still inexhaustible. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-08124.xml Tue, 01 Aug 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-11383.xml HORATIO GATES was a native of England, and was born in seventeen hundred and twenty-eight. Of the place of his birth, the condition of his family, the incidents and prospects of his youth, and his education we are not able to communicate any particulars. There is reason to believe that he entered the army pretty early, and began his career as an ensign or lieutenant, yet, we are told, that he obtain- ed my merit merely, the rank of major, and was aid-du-camp to the British officer, who commanded at the capture of Martinico. At the conclusion of the war in seventeen hundred and forty-eight, he was stationed sometime at Halifax in Nova Scotia. At that period, if the date of his birth be accurate, his age did not exceed twenty years. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-11383.xml Wed, 01 Nov 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-12481.xml HOW far the misfortunes of Burgoyne were owing to accidents beyond human control, and how far they are to be ascribed to the indi- vidual conduct and courage of the American commander, would be a useless and invidious inquiry. Reasoning on the ordinary ground, his merits were exceedingly great, and this event entitled him to a high rank among the deliverers of his country. The memory of all former misfortunes were effaced by the magnitude of this victory, and the go- vernment and people vied with each other in expressing their admi- ration of the conquering general. Besides the thanks of congress, the general received from the president a gold medal as a memorial of their gratitude. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-12481.xml Fri, 01 Dec 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-177.xml Tho I have not the pleasure & honour of any personal acquaintance with you, I have ventured to solicit your acceptance of the accompanying Pamphlet. It is, as you will perceive, in the perusal of a single page, the production, not of any political parti= zan; & tho’ this circumstance may deprive it of the notice & regard of the multitude of readers, I have indulged a hope that it will operate rather as a recommendation to the Notice of Mr Gallatin, than as an objection against it http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-177.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-178.xml Philadelphia, February 22d, 1809. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-178.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-179.xml At length, like many other victims to this disease, he determined too late on a voyage in pursuit of health. It was resolved that in the spring of 1810, he should visit his brother James, who resides in England; but he lived not to see that spring. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-179.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT