http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f134-subject%3Dessay Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f134-subject=essay Wed, 14 Jan 2009 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=1798-04318.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=1798-04323.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=1798-04357.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=1798-05038.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=1798-06232.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=1798-06277.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=1798-07297.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=1798-08045.xml IT is well known that about a century ago, the country which now com- poses the United States of America, contained but a few thousand civilized inhabitants—and that now, the same country contains four or five millions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08045.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08071.xml [Concluded from page 50.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08071.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-03355.xml ADVICE is generally viewed as a nauseating potion by those patients to whom it is administered. It chills the heart, and discomposes the econ- omy of the nerves. Hence we find the adviser and the advice treated with equal contempt. To render coun- sel palatable, has been considered by moral writers as the highest and most valuable effort of genius. Nor can we reasonably question their decision when we contemplate the extreme difficulty as well as incalculable im- portance of the art. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-03355.xml Mon, 30 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04003.xml PRAY, Sir, what is your opi- nion respecting the power which the living may obtain over the dead? I suppose you will ea- sily see what it was that put me upon asking this question. Not long ago, an instance of this power was said to be given by a person in your city, and I want much to know the truth or falsehood of the tale. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04003.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05081.xml IT is an old remark, that the com- monest appearances in nature, and the most frequent incidents in human life, are, when viewed by the eyes of a philosopher, mysteri- ous and inexplicable. Men have puzzled themselves in inquiring why a stone that is thrown upward into the air, falls again, after a cer- tain time, to the earth; and how it happens that the arm is lifted, mere- ly because I desire that it should be so. Not contented with the facts as they are noted by our senses, our curiosity conjures up a property, assigns to it the name of gravitation, measures its influence by numbers and lines, and traces its existence through every part of the universe. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05081.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05085.xml Mr. Editor, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05085.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05090.xml AMONG English writers of his- tory, common consent seems to have assigned the first place to Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon.— The merit of each of these, com- pared with that of their contempo- raries and their predecessors, is un- doubtedly illustrious. That each has numerous defects will as readily be granted; but it will not be ea- sily or unanimously decided to which, when compared with each other, the pre-eminence is due. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05090.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05156.xml THE last number of the second volume of the Medical Repository has been published this month, by Messrs. T. and J. Swords.—A second edition of the first and second volumes of that very valuable work is preparing, and will shortly appear. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05156.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06167.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06167.xml Mon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06237.xml DR. Barton, of Philadelphia, has pub- lished “Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania: part I.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06237.xml Mon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07247.xml Mr. Editor, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07247.xml Wed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07316.xml WE learn that a volume of Ser- mons, by the Rev. John Clarke, D. D. late of Boston, is now in the press in that town, and will shortly be published. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07316.xml Wed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08335.xml WALSTEIN was professor of history at Jena, and, of course, had several pupils. Nine of them were more assiduous in their attention to their tutor than the others. This circumstance came at length to be noticed by each other, as well as by Walstein, and naturally produced good-will and fellowship among them. They gra- dually separated themselves from the negligent and heedless crowd, cleaved to each other, and frequently met to exchange and compare ideas. Walstein was prepossessed in their favour by their studious habits, and their veneration for him. He fre- quently admitted them to exclusive interviews, and laying aside his pro- fessional dignity, conversed with them on the footing of a friend and equal. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08335.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08345.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08345.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08395.xml PROPOSALS have been lately issued by Mr. W. W. Woodward of Phi- ladelphia, for printing by subscription, the works of the late John Wither- spoon, D. D. President of the College of New-Jersey, in three volumes 8vo.— This edition will contain not only all the performances of Dr. W. which have been already published, but several im- portant articles never yet submitted to the press. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08395.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12407.xml [Concluded from p. 338.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12407.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12415.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12415.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12470.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12470.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12475.xml THE death of this illustrious man, by an abrupt and vio- lent distemper, will long occupy the attention of his fellow citizens. No public event could have oc- curred, adapted so strongly to awak- en the sensibility and excite the re- flections of Americans. No apolo- gy will therefore be needful for re- lating the circumstances of this great event. The particulars of his disease and death being stated by the physicians who attended him, their narrative deserves to be con- sidered as authentic. The follow- ing account was drawn up by Doc- tors Craik and Dick. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12475.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01076.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01076.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02099.xml 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.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xml 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.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02155.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02155.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03161.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03161.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03172.xml 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.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04243.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04318.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05321.xml 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.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05323.xml 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.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05326.xml 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.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05398.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05398.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xml 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.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07007.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07011.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07016.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07074.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07074.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07III.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08087.xml 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.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08092.xml 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.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xml 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.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08153.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08153.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08160.xml “The Speculatist, No. II.” has been received, and will be inserted in the Magazine for September. A continuance of the communications of this pleasing writer is requested. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08160.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09233.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09233.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09240.xml The Editor is under the necessity of postponing, till the next Number, the insertion of the poetical piece entitled “Edward and Susan,” and also the elegy signed “Oscar.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09240.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10242.xml THERE are few persons of a literary life and conversation of whom the inquiry has not been made, Do you prefer rhyme to blank verse in English poetry? The true answer, the species of ver- sification to which our preference is due, may be easily decided. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10242.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10243.xml THESE words are seldom con- founded in discourse; but it is still more seldom that any clear conceptions are possessed of their precise and respective significations. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10243.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10259.xml “THE Americans,” said a sple- netic friend of mine, who has travelled a good deal in Ame- rica, “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 people in the world. In Great-Britain, France, and Ger- many, those who do, or who can read, bear a very small proportion to the rest. They are scarcely one to twenty; but, in America, almost every man is a student. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10259.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10264.xml IN estimating the various means of enlarging the understanding and meliorating the heart, I have long considered periodical publica- tions extensively useful. Influenced by this sentiment, I no sooner saw your proposals than I became a sub- scriber to your Magazine. To in- timate that I have parted with my money without an equivalent, or perused the several numbers with- out benefit, would be uncandid: but being neither philosopher nor critic, physician nor divine, I have certainly derived less pleasure and improvement from the work than my knowledge of your cha- racter had led me to expect. My animadversions, however, are not intended to imply a censure on the execution of the several depart- ments, but to show the impropriety of admitting some of them into the plan. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10264.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10265.xml [The Editor is ever ready to lis- ten to the remarks of his friends and correspondents, and to profit by their advice in his exertions to please and benefit those who honour his work with a perusal. His scheme, as first announced, is very com- prehensive, adapted as well to the moralist as the philosopher, critic, physician, and divine. Literature and science have a strong connec- tion with morality: and, although the Editor is not less sensible than A. Z. of the superior importance of those performances which have im- mediate relation to the latter, he cannot but think that a plan which comprehends other branches of knowledge, will be approved by the majority of readers. His design is to render his work as extensively use- ful as possible; to furnish a re- spectable vehicle for all those who have leisure and inclination to write, to convey their thoughts to the public. The department of morals is not limited; and it depends on the number and zeal of his corres- pondents whether it shall conta... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10265.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10311.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10311.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10320.xml The “Ode to Samuel Low, Esq.” by “CENSOR,” though ex- pressive of correct opinions, is, in manner, not fully adapted for publica- tion in our miscellany. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10320.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11321.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11321.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11323.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11323.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11339.xml [☞ A sincere desire that ample justice should be done to the merits of every author, has induced us to insert the foregoing letter, which, as it concerns a subject interesting to science, and, indirectly, to sound criticism and literature, will, we hope, notwithstanding its length, be favourably received by our readers. We shall always be hap- py to have our decisions rectified when they are wrong; for, as men and individuals, we have neither the vanity or folly to suppose that our judgments are infallible.—In matters of taste and criticism, as well as of morality and history, we have not yet discovered any mode by which the truth of our opinions could be demonstrated.—To the ma- thematical and physical sciences, belongs that demonstrative power which at once unfolds the truth and removes all doubt and uncertainty; but, concerning those things about which wiser, older, and more learned men have differed in opinion, a reviewer may be allowed to doubt. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11339.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11387.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11387.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11400.xml “Disconsolate Eliza,” by “HENRICUS,” does not possess all that ten- derness and passion, and that poetic diction, which the subject demands, and which would entitle it to a place in our poetical department. It ap- pears to be the production of youthful genius, and, as such, may afford the promise of better things. The judgment of the editor must controul his wishes to gratify this correspondent. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11400.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12404.xml SIX hundred years ago, when all who aspired to literature were obliged to seek it among the re- liques of the Greeks and Romans, the learned languages ceased to be dead tongues. In correspondence, conversation, and publication, the only medium was Latin. In the progress of improvement, though the ancient tongues were gradually supplanted, in popular perform- ances, by the modern, yet writers being early imbued with the ancient literature, and intimately conversant with it, their topics, their opinions, and their images, continued to flow from that source. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12404.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12408.xml SEDUCTION, and murder by duel, are the remnants of the ancient manners of Europe. These have sometimes been more politely styled gallantry and the point of honour; and, such is the influence of names, that gallantry and honour are soft and inoffensive sounds, though their acceptation be pre- cisely similar to seduction and mur- der. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12408.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12410.xml AN American gentleman was once entertained by a Welsh knight. It was at the opening of the American war, on which the discourse naturally turned. The knight, after some discussion on the causes of the troubles, very shrewdly observed that the troops designed for the service would have a very long march. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12410.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12412.xml THE falsehood and selfishness of the human heart has been the theme of moralists and satyrists ever since the days of Job and Juvenal. The numberless ways in which our own interest intrudes upon our contemplations, and per- verts our wishes, has often been observed. Some poet has taken occasion to exemplify these perver- sions in detailing the prayers put up, by a great number of votaries, at the shrine of some popular di- vinity. He represents the indigent as praying for wealth, the unmar- ried for an husband, the childless for offspring, and the impatient heir for the death of the present possessor. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12412.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12413.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12413.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12416.xml AS an admirer of the fair sex, and trembingly alive to every thing that affects their character, I have presumed, of late, to censure several females of my acquaintance for their love of politics. They listened, with admirable attention, to all I thought proper to say on the subject. A few evenings since, I renewed my arguments with two- fold earnestness. When I paused to see if there were any to applaud my opinions, a sprightly and sensi- ble girl, as if resolving on a piece of revenge, turned towards a female visitant who had observed a pro- found silence the preceding part of the evening, and asked her, gaily, if women had not an equal right with men to be politicians. I drew near to hear the dialogue. Timo- rously blushing, she replied, “No, my dear.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12416.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12472.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12472.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12480.xml “CANDIDUS” was received too late to appear in this Number. The great length of his quotations is some objection to the insertion of his communication. If they could be curtailed, or a reference be made to the pages of the printed volume, it would be more agreeable to the generality of readers. The change, however, which is about to take place in this publication, may induce Candidus to seek some other vehicle for a speedier publication, unless content to wait the appearance of the next Review. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12480.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-03077.xml Our manners, said a gentleman from Hol- land, in a dining company, where I was lately, are very different from yours; and, if you will give me leave to say so, much more agreeable: that, however, may arise from my national im- pressions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-03077.xml Sat, 07 Mar 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-04105.xml MADELINA, you wish me to draw your cha- racter. What a strange wish, to be preferred by a young lady to a young man, who has seldom seen you, at times and in situations which admit of no disguise, and which draw forth all our secret foibles and who, at best, has neither a sober nor impartial judgment. Still, however, I will do my best. If I blame you, your pride may occasionally impute it to my ignorance; if I praise, your mo- desty will naturally suggest some doubts of the sincerity of one, who sets a very high value on your good opinion, and who thinks your smiles cheaply bought, even at the price of some dupli- city. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-04105.xml Sat, 10 Apr 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-09281.xml May heaven have compassion upon those whose doom it is to ply the quill in hot weather! If this task require uncommon diligence, at any time, it makes double demands upon us at a sultry season. And if the habitually industrious, may claim some excuse for indolence, at such a time, the Lounger cannot doubt of a ready forgiveness. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-09281.xml Sat, 11 Sep 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10003.xml IT is usual for one who presents the public with a periodical work like the present, to introduce him- self to the notice of his readers by some sort of preface or address. I take up the pen in conformity to this custom, but am quite at a loss for topics suitable to so interesting an occasion. I cannot expatiate on the variety of my knowledge, the bril- liancy of my wit, the versatility of my talents. To none of these do I lay any claim, and though this va- riety, brilliancy of solidity, are ne- cessary ingredients in a work of this kind, I trust merely to the zeal and liberality of my friends to supply me with them. I have them not my- self, but doubt not of the good of- fices of those who possess them, and shall think myself entitled to no small praise, if I am able to collect into one socal spot the rays of a great number of luminaries. They also may be very unequal to each other in lustre, and some of them may be little better than twinkling and fee- ble stars, of the hundredth magni- tude; but what is wa... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10003.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10006.xml I have just been reading “Polite Conversation” by Swift. It is amus- ing to observe how many of the em- bellishments of modern conversa- tion have been employed to the same purpose these hundred years. Many of them are probably of as old a date as the reign of Egbert, and most of them, at least, as old as that of Eli- zabeth, when, as the comedies and comic scenes of Shakespeare prove, the colloquial dialect of the English was the same as at present. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10006.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10026.xml The ascendancy of the French language, in the nations who are neighbours of France, is a circum- stance somewhat remarkable. In the English language, for instance, we find the technical vocabulary of several arts to be chiefly or wholly French. In many cases not only words are pure French, but the or- der in which they stand in the phrase, is agreeable to the French fashion, and very many of these words and phrases are not of remote and Norman origin, but recently imported. As, The Art Military, Prerogative Royal, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Envoy Extraordi- nary, Commissary General, and so forth. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10026.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10027.xml THE affectation of honouring places, associations, and profes- sions with the epithet Royal, which at present prevails in England, and formerly in France, has been car- ried to great, and sometimes ridi- culous extremes. In England, the first society of sages called itself the Royal Society. It would puzzle any one to discover, from their title, the pursuits of the association. In this case, the appellation is merely fulsome and unmeaning flattery, since it is well known, that this fra- ternity owed nothing, at its first formation, to the King. Within a short period a great number of so- cieties have sprung up, which, from the spirit of absurd imitation, or with a view to curry favour with majesty, have been careful to add royal to their name. Thus we have the Royal African Association, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institu- tion of Great Britain, the Royal Insurance Company, the Royal Bank (of Edinburgh,) the Royal Jennerian Society, the Royal Aca- demy of Dublin, the Royal Society of Edinburgh. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10027.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10052.xml The revival of the war between France and England, which took place at the close of the last year, has not hitherto been productive of any very important events. It is, however, in many respects, the most remarkable that has ever hitherto occurred. France by the continu- ance of peace between her and her immediate neighbours, is at liberty to bend her whole force against England. England, by her insular situation and by her great maritime force, puts her enemy at bay. France has no option but to aim an expedition against Great Britain, to embarrass the English commerce on the continent, and to seize what- ever territories on the continent belong to England. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10052.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10061.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10061.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10074.xml IT has been a matter of some surprise among the curious, and of still greater concern among the benevolent part of mankind, that the present light, airy, and highly unsuitable dresses should prevail among females at this inclement season of the year: more especial- ly in a climate like our's, where we are subject to continual variations of weather, and sudden changes of temperature in the atmosphere. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10074.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10077.xml A new flexible tube for the gazes has been invented: it consists of a brass wire, twisted round a long thin cylinder, and covered with oiled silk, twice wrapped round, and, fas- tened, by means of thread, between the grooves of the wire. It is then again varnished, and covered in a spiral manner with sheep-gut, slit longitudinaily, and again secured with thread. Lastly, to protect the whole from external injury, it is to be covered with leather in the same manner as the tubes of inhalers. These flexible tubes answer the same purpose as the very costly ones of elastic gum, similar to the hollow bougies made for surgeons. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10077.xml Sat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11081.xml WE are often told that we may read an author's character in his works, and that of all modes of com- position, letter writing is the most characteristic and descriptive. Are these assertions true? In what de- gree and respect are they true? It is plain enough that books and letters are sufficient, and indeed, the only proofs of a capacity for writing books and letters, but this seems to be all that they prove. They seem to let in but little light upon the actual deportment of the writer, upon his temper, his favourite pur- suits, and his habits of talking and conversing. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11081.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11133.xml The annual net proceeds of the duties on merchandise and tonnage had, in former reports, been esti- mated at nine millions five hundred thousand dollars. That revenue, estimated on the importations of the years immediately preceding the late war, and on the ratio of in- crease of the population of the U. S. have been under-rated. The net revenue from that source, which accrued during the year 1802, ex- ceeds ten millions one hundred thousand dollars. The revenue which has accrued during the two first quarters of the present year, appears to have been only fifty thousand dollars less than that of the two corresponding quarters of the year 1802; and the receipts in the Treasury, on account of the same duties, during the year ending on the 30th of Sept. last, have ex- ceeded ten millions six hundred thousand dollars. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11133.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11153.xml philadelphia, oct. 27. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11153.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11158.xml The Editor of this work having engaged in a very arduous under- taking, is conscious that his success will in a great measure depend upon the literary aid which he shall re- ceive from his friends, and the Literati of this country… He, there- fore, most earnestly, solicits from the polite scholar, the contributions of their genius and leisure: while the Editor performs all that is in his power, he hopes that they will not permit another attempt to extend abroad useful knowledge, to perish. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11158.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12163.xml I HAVE been listening this half hour, to R—— reciting the odes of Anacreon. He is wonderfully de- lighted with this old songster, and backs his praise with a thousand tes- timonies of sage critics, and enligh- tened contemporaries of the poet. Nothing, in the whole universe of poetry, he says, is so sweet, so deli- cate, so delicious. He utters such dulcet and harmonious breath that the rudest savage would be soothed by it into civility, and the gloomiest anchorite start madly into extacy at the sound. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12163.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12167.xml Aug. 19, 1801…..This day being fixed on for setting out upon our journey up the Susquehannah, bro- ther J…. and myself, mounted our horses at six in the afternoon, and taking to the Ridge road, arrived at the Wissihicken, where we stop- ped for the night. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12167.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12173.xml Why the objects either of nature or poetry produce different effects on different minds, is easily explain- ed. Ideas and images are differ- ently linked and associated; and as all are tinctured with pain or with pleasure, it is impossible that any two readers should read the same performance with exactly the same emotions; or even that the same person should derive the same im- pressions from the perusal at dif- ferent times. Thought is volatile and flexible beyond any other es- sence: yet, like every other, is bound by certain laws, and particularly influenced and swayed by habit..... Hence it is, that those who begin, in early youth, to read a poem, con- tinue, generally, for the rest of their lives, to read wit... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12173.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12180.xml [The following “Chemical Ques- tion” was first proposed in a daily paper of this city, nearly two years ago: I have not seen any answer to it since that time, and from the intended scope of the Literary Ma- gazine, I am induced to request a corner for it. This question must be considered an important one, as it may tend to elucidate some of those causes, which act so power- fully, (because secretly) towards the rapid destruction of the human teeth in all climates and situations. Whether Sugar is one of these agents of decomposition, or not, our present imperfect state of scienti- fic knowledge will not admit us to decide: but it rather appears from concurring circumstances, that its effects are not deleterious in their na- ture: —as I am told, that the inha- bitants of the West Indies preserve their teeth in great perfection and beauty: but for the truth of this, I cannot vouch. It is hoped that some of the great luminaries of science now in the city, who frequent “hot lecture-rooms” (to the g... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12180.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12185.xml The son of Latona, in his rapid course, has just overtaken the ser- pent Python. The mortal dart is already discharged from his dread- ful bow, which he holds in his left hand, and from which his right is just withdrawn; the motion impres- sed on all his muscles is still pre- served. Indignation sits on his lip, but on his countenance the certain- ty of victory is imprinted, and his eye sparkles with satisfaction at having delivered Delphos from the monster which ravaged its coasts. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12185.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT