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Another attempted to settle the point of prevailing custom, and the general result was, that nothing was more vague and equivocal than this term. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01245.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01248.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01248.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01250.xml (Continued from page 167.) http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01250.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01255.xml I had taken much pains to im- prove the sagacity of a favourite Spaniel. It was my purpose, indeed, to ascertain to what degree of im- provement the principles of reason- ing and imitation could be carried in a dog. There is no doubt that the animal affixes distinct ideas to sounds. What are the possible limits of his vocabulary no one can tell. In conversing with my dog I did not use English words, but selected simple monosyllables. Ha- bit likewise enabled him to compre- hend my gestures. If I crossed my hands on my breast he understood the signal and laid down behind me. If I joined my hands and lifted them to my breast, he returned home. If I grasped one arm above the elbow he ran before me. If ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01255.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01261.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01261.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01265.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01265.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01270.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01270.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01317.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-01317.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02323.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02323.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02332.xml My visits gradually became more frequent. Meanwhile my wants increased, and the necessity of some change in my condition be- came daily more urgent. This in- cited my reflections on the scheme which I had formed. The time and place suitable to my design, were not selected without much anxious inquiry and frequent wa- verings of purpose. These being at length flexed, the interval, to elapse, before the carrying of my design into effect, was not without perturbation and suspense. These could not be concealed from my new friend and at length prompted him to inquire into the cause. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02332.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02345.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02345.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02374.xml Mr. Burke is dead. He is beyond the reach of public regard and ha- tred; and those who persecuted, and those who loved him, may weep alike for the loss of a victim and a friend. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02374.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377a.xml Mr. Jefferson having given an official account of the territory of Louisiana, has thought proper to send his first secretary to know how far that information might be relied upon. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377a.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377b.xml General Lee was remarkably slovenly in his dress and manners; and has often by the meanness of his appearance, been subject to ridicule and insult. He was once attending general Washington to a place dis- tant from the camp….Riding on, he arrived at the house where they were to dine, sometime before the rest of the company. He went di- rectly to the kitchen demanding something to eat; when the cook, taking him for a servant, told him she would give him some victuals in a moment….but he must help her off with the pot. This he complied with and sat down to some cold meat which she placed before him on the dresser. The girl was remarkably inquisitive about the guests who were coming, particularly of Lee, who she said she heard was one of the oddest and ugliest men in the world. In a few moments she desired the general again to assist her in plac- ing on the pot, and scarcely had he finished, when she requested him to * This city is in long. W. from Phi- ladelphia 29° N. lat.... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377b.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02396.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02396.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03403.xml I HAVE just been reading a dis- sertation upon novel-reading, in which the writer says a great many grave and weighty things on the subject, and finally winds up by as- serting, that supposing the whole stock of the Novelist's library to amount to one thousand, five hun- dred of these are void of all judg- ment, genius and taste, composed without knowledge of the world, or skill in composition; and of the re- mainder, four hundred and ninety- nine are calculated only to corrupt and deprave the morals. While en- gaged in pondering on this very com- prehensive declaration, who should enter the apartment but Miss D..... on a visit to my sister. This lady has an ample fortune, a lively curio- sity, studious temper, and, though young and handsome, no lover. She has therefore abundant leisure, and all the means of reading at com- mand. Novels are he... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03403.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03412.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03412.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03419.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03419.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03431.xml In America, where business is every one's occupation, but few re- markable characters have appeared ….and scarcely a biographer has been found to distinguish those few before the world. However con- genial the mystery of money-making may be with a cheerful evenness of temper, it is certainly inimical to genius; and were the opulent loung- er would foster, the man of trade frowns on the efforts of imagination ….our luxuries are exotic, our en- tertainments imported, our public spectacles more or less excellent as they approach the European models of which they are the distant imita- tions. The barrenness of our lite- rary domain is not therefore to be wondered at; nor where the soil, though so rank has hitherto been so uncultivated, should it surprise, that when a native plant has sprung up, its virtues have not been recorded, or when a foreign one transplanted here, has thriven, though its quali- ties may have been used or enjoyed, they have not been sufficiently made known, or justly appreciated. The writer ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03431.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03434.xml This Poem does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of rea- soning. “Its aim is simply to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination the beautiful and su- blime images of the operations of nature, in order as the author be- lieves, in which the progressive course of time presented then.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03434.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03474.xml The legislature of New Jersey, on the 15th February passed a law for the gradual abolition of slavery. It enacts that every child born of a slave after the 4th day of July next, shall be free, but shall remain the servant of the owner of the mother, in the same manner as if such child had been bound to service by the overseers of the poor, males until the age of 25, and females until the age of 21…provides for the regis- try of the birth of all such children within nine months after such birth ….and gives liberty to the owner, at any time within one year from the birth, to elect to abandon his right to any such child, the owner being, nevertheless, liable to main- tain the child until one year old, and thereafter the child to be consi- dered as a pauper, and liable to be bound out to service as other poor children, males until the age of 25, and females 21.…but while the child remains a pauper, and until it shall be bound out, it is to be maintained by the town, at the ex- pense of the state, n... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-03474.xml Thu, 01 Mar 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04003.xml IN answer to the reveries and spe- culations which I sent to him re- specting this subject, Ludloe inform- ed me, that they had led his mind into a new sphere of meditation. He had long and deeply considered in what way he might essentially pro- mote my happiness. He had enter- tained a faint hope that I would one day be qualified for a station like that to which he himself had been advanced. This post required an elevation and stability of views which human beings seldom reach, and which could be attained by me only by a long series of heroic labours. Hitherto every new stage in my in- tellectual progress had added vigour to his hopes, and he cherished a stronger belief than formerly that my career would terminate auspi- ciously. This, however, was neces- sarily distant. Many preliminaries must first be settled; many arduous accomplishments be first obtained; and my virtue be subjected to severe trials. At present it was not in his power to be more explicit; but if my reflections suggested no better plan, h... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04003.xml Sun, 01 Apr 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04009.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04009.xml Sun, 01 Apr 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04017.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04017.xml Sun, 01 Apr 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04082.xml THIS work has received such generous encouragement, that it is proposed occasionally to ornament the numbers with engravings. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-04082.xml Sun, 01 Apr 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05083.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05083.xml Tue, 01 May 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05089.xml MEANWHILE, in a point of so much moment, I was not hasty to determine. My delay seemed to be, by no means, unacceptable to Lud- loe, who applauded my discretion, and warned me to be circumspect. My attention was chiefly absorb- ed by considerations connected with this subject, and little regard was paid to any foreign occupation or amusement. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05089.xml Tue, 01 May 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05105.xml As the European and foreign dominions of the Dutch commonwealth have lately passed into the hands of the two great rivals, France and England, it is an object of some curiosity to know the nature and extent of those dominions, and the benefits really re- dounding from them. The following account of the colonial establishments of the Dutch in the east, is taken, with some alterations and amend- ments, from a foreign publication, and will, no doubt, prove to many of your readers a curious and valuable document. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05105.xml Tue, 01 May 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05135.xml A NATIONAL dress, which lays a tax on the luxury of particu- lar prodigals, will at length also lessen the disbursements of the state, and even render the spirit of the nation more patriotic, when one dress unites all the individuals of it, and distinguishes them from other nations. It is really absurd to wear the dress of a Parisian in all cli- mates, where the seasons, the mode of life, and the bodily frame, require a very different covering; and it is honourable with a generous disdain to refuse obedience to the sceptre of fashion, which is sometimes sway- ed over whole kingdoms by an opera girl, and sometimes by a taylor....... But whether in our times, with our manners, in our part of the world, such a reformation would be pro- per, is, I think, yet undecided. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05135.xml Tue, 01 May 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05140.xml OF all the curious usages, whe- ther sacred or profane, no one at first sight appears to be so irration- al and unaccountable, as of men ly- ing in bed, instead of their wives, after child-birth; and, if any thing can render the practice more ab- surd than it is in itself, it is the vo- luntary mortifications and fasts they inflict upon themselves on such oc- casions; a custom that has been, and is still observed by several an- cient and modern nations. Another practice, no less apparently unac- countable, is the voluntary mutila- tion, particularly the amputation of a finger, on the death of a relation by consanguinity, and even on joy- ful occasions. I connect the history of these two sacred customs toge- ther, because both of them proceed from one and the same cause, though the former is founded on more reasons than the latter. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-05140.xml Tue, 01 May 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06163.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 beautiful, and its beauties were heightened by a long-protracted echo, occasioned by the evening gun, fired from the ram- parts 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 some- what to this effect: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06163.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06169.xml The following account of our native city has already been printed, but has been limited to a very narrow circulation. It has been thought proper to re-pub- lish it in this work, carefully corrected It attempts the description of objects, and the relation of events, familiar to most of the inhabitants of this city, but, of course, little or not at all known to strangers and foreigners. To the latter it may not prove unacceptable, as it is the fullest account of Phila- delphia that has hitherto been given to the world. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06169.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06175.xml BEND a favourable ear, O Lord, to all our prayers; but grant only those of our prayers which thou knowest will be serviceable to us. Have compassion on the errors and blindness of these my brethren, and let not any thought of their hearts be gratified, for all the good things they ask for would prove unto them vanity and vexation of spirit. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06175.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06176.xml EVERY reader knows that this is part of Milton's description of an imaginary personage called Death. How few are there among the read- ers of this, or any popular poet, who stop to enquire into the propriety or reasonableness of what they read! They are told beforehand that this or that is a sublime production, and, with a modesty in some respects praise-worthy, take the work as a criterion of taste and excellence, and seldom venture to judge for themselves, or to derive the reasons of their approbation from the unbi- assed and original suggestions of their own minds. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06176.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06179.xml IN the annexed table, the com- piler has endeavoured to collect as many geographical and political par- ticulars as possible, into one succinct view. The sagacious reader will perceive, in Home of the items, a certain deviation from the most au- thentic documents. As this devia- tion was voluntary, it is necessary to explain the reasons which occa- sioned it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06179.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06180.xml PITIABLE is his lot that is im- pelled, by some casual or extraneous motive, to write, without possessing either sentiments or subject. This is, at present, exactly my situation. Having taken up the pen to write an essay, I made a short pause, and put up an earnest invocation to the muses for their succour, in a time of lamentable need. They have been deaf to my entreaties, unless, indeed, it has been by their inspira- tion or suggestion that my wife, a moment after, made her appear- ance, and seeing my musing posture, and bewildered look, enquired into the subject of my meditations. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06180.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06183.xml A CERTAIN pope congratulat- ed himself on his death-bed for the great integrity and prosperity of his administration, and all the mi- nisters and courtiers which sur- rounded the pontifical couch joined in the homage: and pray, reader, what thinkest thou was the chief proof of this glory and prosperity, what the principal exploit by which his short reign had been so eminent- ly and honourably distinguished in the eyes of God and man? Per- haps he drained some bog, by which some thousands of his subjects had their lives prolonged, and their health secured. Perhaps he abo- lished some iniquitous law, by which the happiness of tens of thousands had been molested and impaired. Perhaps he cleared away a sand bar, or constructed a mole, by which trade and commerce were endowed with new activity and energy. Per- haps he abrogated or softened some religious edict, and in consequence improved, in some slight degree, the condition of that part of his sub- jects who dissented from the Ro- mish ritual. No, reader; these ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06183.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06187.xml A GENTLEMAN who had very early lost his sense of hearing, but not till he had acquired a competent knowledge of reading and writing, and of consequence secured to him- self the sure means of intellectual improvement, and even of conver- sation, has often expressed to me his feelings while sitting in a nu- merous company, and observing by the motions of the eyes and lips that those, round him were busily engag- ed in talk. Besides a great deal of regret that he could not share in this lively intercourse of thoughts, he has often been penetrated with wonder and curiosity as to what topic was handling, or what discus- sion going forward. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06187.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07243.xml To the present number of this work is prefixed a head of Washington. It is the Editor's intention to select, for the embellishment of this publication, the por- traits of all eminent and illustrious men among his countrymen. Justice obvi- ously demands that in doing this he should pay no regard to party animosities and divisions. Washington, however, will hardly fail of being acceptable to all, and his portrait will be followed by those of his successors in the presidency, in their due order. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07243.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248a.xml IT is well known that the votaries of the Roman religion deem them- selves in possession of every thing belonging to the person, family, and household of the Saviour. Every article of his clothing and lodging, the house in which he was born, the cup out of which is infancy was fed, and even drops, or rather quarts, of his blood, are preserved in Euro- pean churches. As curious a relio as any, however, was la chemise de la vierge, which was preserved, in the city of Chartres, in the ninth century. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248a.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248b.xml LUDLOE'S remarks on the se- ductive and bewitching powers of women, on the difficulty of keeping a secret which they wish to know, and to gain which they employ the soft artillery of tears and prayers, and blandishments and menaces, are familiar to all men, but they had little weight with me, because they were unsupported by my own ex- perience. I had never had any in- tellectual or sentimental connection with the sex. My meditations and pursuits had all led a different way, and a bias had gradually been given to my feelings, very unfavour- able to the refinements of love. I acknowledge, with shame and re- gret, that I was accustomed to re- gard the physical and sensual con- sequences of the sexual relation as realities, and every thing intellec- tual, disinterested, and heroic, which enthusiasts connect with it as idle dreams. Besides, said I, I am yet a stranger to the secret, on the pre- servation of which so much stress is laid, and it will be optional with me to receive it or not. If, in the progress of... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248b.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07257a.xml THIS singular man is a native of America, and few of his country- men deserve a biographical memo- rial more than he. He is one of those examples of self-instructed genius, with which America abounds more than any other part of the world. His family were farmers, and the intimations and suggestions of his own mind, as he guided the plough or loaded the stack, led him to the study of arithmetic and as- tronomy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07257a.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07257b.xml ONE of the most remarkable ef- fects of the progress of science, is the first bringing into disrepute opi- nions originating in credulity and ig- norance; and afterwards restoring them again to their original credibi- lity. The man in the moon, which vulgar optics used so clearly to dis- tinguish, was afterwards condemned and exploded, as an absurd impossi- bility. Unlearned eyes saw nothing in the moon but a globe, or rather a circular mass, rolling, at a moderate distance above us, and between which and the earth there was the same congeniality as between the top of a terrestrial mountain and the bottom, and so situated, that any thing detached from it must neces- sarily fall among the dwellings of men. That matters should some- times fall from the moon was there- fore a probable event, and certain masses were pointed out, which were believed to have actually thus fallen. The progress of astronomy, which removed the moon to a much greater distance from the earth then the vulgar had imagined it to be, and wh... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07257b.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07258.xml THERE is seldom to be met with a more curious and instructive nar- rative* than that which is given by Miss Seward of Thomas Day, the author of the celebrated work “Sandford and Merton.” A great part of mankind, or at least the best part, are governed by an unaccoun- table and blameable degree of either indolence or diffidence, which hin- ders them from being their own bi- ographers. How extremely small is the number of those, whose me- rits or singularities have made them worthy of general curiosity, who have left behind them any memo- rial of themselves. Judging with- out experience, one would imagine that vanity, or a lust of applause, would lead a vast multitude to bur- then the public with the history of their own lives; but the fact is, that the class of self-biographers consists almost entirely of those who have very little merit in any eyes but their own; whereas that illus- trious train, whose works will live forever in the memory of mankind, and whose minutest reliques are regarded with some degree ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07258.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07260a.xml THE Italian poplar, so fashiona- ble in America, has been chiefly valued for its hardy constitution, its quick growth, and a regular spiry form, which ornaments without en- cumbering, and affords a shade, friendly to man, but harmless to ve- getables. Nothing forms so advan- tageous a fence or enclosure, and such beautiful and convenient ave- nues in cities. The timber, how- ever, has generally been thought worthless. It has, however, been of late very warmly recommended by a corresponding member of a French agricultural society at Poi- tiers, as flooring, as a preventative against the destruction of corn in granaries, &c. by weevils, insects, &c. A series of experiments made by him on this subject, at first acci- dentally discovered, have been at- tended with complete success. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07260a.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07260b.xml A MOST remarkable instance of personal similitude has just ocurred at New York, in a trial for a double marriage. A man, by name Hoag, is charged with marrying one wo- man, whom he afterwards deserts, and marries another. He is met, under the name of Parker, by the friends and relations of his first wife, and by the first wife herself, who all combine in swearing positively, that this is the very man. Another equally numerous set of witnesses unanimously swear, that the man before them worked for them and with them, eat with them, and con- versed with them, in the city of New York, at the very time when the first set of witnesses maintained that he was in their company, at a distance in the country. The wit- nesses against him not only affirmed the exact resemblance of the man before them to Thomas Hoag, in stature, shape, gesture, complexion, looks, voice, and articulation, but even the accidental mark of a scar upon the forehead. The scales of testimony appear to have been equally balanced, till the prisone... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07260b.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07318b.xml THE Editor of the Literary Ma- gazine believing that a monthly list of new publications will be accept- able to his subscribers, as a gene- ral reference in the selection of books to purchase, and as exhibiting a to- lerably correct view of the prevail- ing taste for reading, and progress of literature in the United States, has determined to appropriate two or three pages in each number to that purpose, and invites authors and publishers to communicate notices of works printed, in the press, or about to be put to press, and they will al- ways be faithfully inserted, free of expence......The present catalogue must necessarily be imperfect, but from the friendly assistance of the publishers in the different towns, he hopes, with the next number, to present a complete list of all the ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07318b.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07320.xml THE Editor has just received a very flattering letter, accompanied with two small pamphlets, from the borders of the Mississippi. The writer is assured that no applause can be more acceptable than that which is obtained from such men as himself…..'Tis fame indeed when the praise-worthy praise. It is with great reluctance that he reminds his correspondent of that political neutrality to which he has condemn- ed himself, and which obliges him to decline the introduction of the favours sent him. No one can be more sensible than he is of the me- rit of the performances alluded to, as specimens of eloquence; and he would willingly adorn his pages with the whole or part of them, if he were not under a moral necessity of silence. Should his correspond- ent find time or inclination to send any thing of a popular and general nature, the production of his own or any of his friends, it will be receiv- ed with gratitude and pleasure. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07320.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07321.xml THE following abstract of the American Travels of the celebrated baron Humboldt and his companion Bonpland, has been drawn up from notes which the former has kindly furnished, and will supersede the many very incorrect accounts hither- to published relative to this interest- ing object. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07321.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08331.xml JOHN ADAMS is a descendant of one of the first families who founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1630. He was born at Braintree, in Massachusetts, October 19th, 1735. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08331.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08332.xml I SEND you a translation of the most material passages in Volney's pre- face to his Travels in America, which have just appeared at Paris. A work of this nature is of great importance to our national reputation abroad; it must therefore be universally interesting to know in what colours we have been drawn by one, whose portrait, whatever be its absurdities and blemishes, will un- doubtedly be more multiplied, farther diffused, and generally credited than the work of any other painter. I shall make no comment on any of its lines or shades, but leave your impartial readers to view the scene, uninterrupted and unbiassed. Yours, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08332.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08337.xml THE present month is distin- guished by one of the most memor- able and disastrous events that ever occurred; the death of a great and illustrious person, not by some in- evitable casualty, or some ordinary disease, but by the pistol of a rival, in open day, and after a full pause of mutual preparation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08337.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08338.xml I send you a letter written by an old friend, which, for the style and senti- ments it breathes, does not fall behind the true epistolary spirit of any letter I have met with. Compositions of this kind, free, spirited, and familiar, will please judicious readers more than the most formal and elaborate compositions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08338.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08343.xml THE ingenuity of government, in extracting from the purses of the people that portion of the general revenue, which is called the public revenue, in ways which shall be the easiest and most satisfactory to all parties, necessarily leads into esti- mates and disquisitions concerning every mode of private expence, and thus affords, to the curious, a clue to the knowledge of life and man- ners not otherwise attainable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08343.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08344a.xml THE best idea that can be form- ed of the extent to which dogs are tolerated in Great Britain, may be gathered from the amount of the tax upom them. This tax, in 1803, brought in upwards of 450,000 dol- lars. As it must be matter of choice and luxury to keep a dog, what must be the general opulence of a nation, or what must be its general attach- ment to the canine race, when, in addition to the price and trouble of their maintenance, the people are willing to pay so vast a sum as this, for the privilege of keeping them! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08344a.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08344b.xml 1. THE Port Folio is conducted by Joseph Dennie with his usual spirit. We warmly commend this gentle- man for his zeal and labours in the cause of literature, we are grateful for the services which he has al- ready rendered to that honourable cause, and hope that success will always attend his virtuous under- takings. We are now and then somewhat inclined to find fault with some of the poetical effusions which he introduces, and for some invec- tives, in which he occasionally in- dulges his pen, against christians of a particular denomination; but, while we differ from him with res- pect to these shades of opinion, we acknowledge fully his perfect right to his own sentiments on these and on other subjects, and do not consi- der them as detracting from his li- terary qualifications, which we know to be highly respectable. We wish to proceed hand in hand with him, in support of what he styles the monarchy of letters. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08344b.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08356.xml A NEW magazine has appeared in London, entitled the Universal Theological Magazine and Impar- tial Review. It commenced in Janu- ary, 1804, and is published monthly, by E. Vidler, a celebrated preacher among the methodists. Price 1s. ster. The following is extracted from his fourth number: “The Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in England and Wales, it appears by their last report, has, since the commencement of the institution, in 1785, assisted 2,232 schools, in which have been instruct- ed 200,787 scholars, and among them have been distributed 184,248 spelling books, 42,680 testaments, 6583 bibles, and 4112l. sterl. (18,275 dolls. 55 cents.) http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08356.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08359.xml FROM the observations of Dr. Hebarden on the diseases of Lon- don, which are grounded on a strict examination of the bills of mortality for the last century, it appears that one tenth of all the deaths was occasioned by the small pox, this disease alone having carried off near 200,000 in that period of time. In certain years, it has been parti- cularly fatal; as appears by the fol- lowing statement from the bills of mortality: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08359.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08361.xml THE lapse of ten or twelve years has almost consigned to oblivion that controversy which was raised by the publication of “Political Jus- tice.” The author, unlike most founders of new sects and systems, seems to have resigned his theories to their destiny, without a struggle, and to have turned his attention and his pen to pursuits and themes that are rather repugnant than favour- able to his ancient schemes. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08361.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08369.xml GREAT literary works are usu- ally the offspring of compulsion or necessity. Among the curious and characteristic instances of works produced in a prison, either as a pe- nalty imposed, or to relieve the irk- someness of solitude, the following instances are on record: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08369.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08409.xml Authors and publishers are requested to communicate notices of their works, post paid, and they will always be in- serted, free of expence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08409.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08410.xml TO our valuable correspondent near Gray's Ferry, our respectful gratitude is due for his favours. The poem handed to us lately, pos- sesses merit superior to those that have preceded it, and shall receive honourable place in our next num- ber. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-08410.xml Wed, 01 Aug 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09413.xml THE biography of such a man as Thomas Jefferson can only be drawn up by his own hand, and a true judg- ment of his merits can only be form- ed by future generations. When the animosities of the present age have been laid asleep by time, his character and actions may rise to the view in their native and proper colours, and the meed of blame or of praise will be conferred on him, in the degree to which he is justly entitled to it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09413.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09414.xml COWPER'S religion was either altogether methodism, or strongly tinctured with the peculiarities of this sect. In outward show and practice, he was, however, an adherent to the church of England, and perhaps car- ried his rigours no further than many the most eminent of that per- suasion have done. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09414.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09415.xml THE celebrated Jonathan Ed- wards wrote a prosound treatise on the nature of true virtue. The fol- lowing anecdote from Joinville, the historian, of the last great expedi- tion of the French to Syria and Egypt, before that of the present imperator Gallorum, will show that the same sentiment and doctrine may occur to the most dissimilar minds and in the most opposite situ- ations. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09415.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09416a.xml ONE of the strange things of the present century, is the painting and engraving of the portrait of the high priest of the Jews, by a celebrated British artist. Such a one was pub- lished in London during the present year. The Turkish sultan, Selim, who is the caliph or high priest of the Mohammedans, assigned a place in his secret cabinet to a portrait of lord Nelson: another strange thing, and which are humble and familiar, indeed, but striking, indications of the progress of opinion to break down those uncharitable bars which make the votaries of different reli- gions strangers and enemies to each other. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09416a.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09416b.xml IT is certainly one of the most remarkable lineaments of the pre- sent age, that women have assumed, in some degree, the equality with men. Professions which have here- tofore been confined to the male sex, are now familiarly exercised by the other. These observations, how- ever, are applicable more to Europe than America, and more to England than any part of Europe. There we find eminent writers, poets, fa- bulists, painters, and engravers among women, and while the path they have taken is as honourable as any other, their progress in this path is as rapid and illustrious as any of their compeers among the manly votaries can boast. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09416b.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09420.xml COUNT RUMFORD, who ex- tended his view to so many corners of the kitchen, in order to cheapen and simplify the means of subsistence, has not been forgetful of the impor- tant department of the domestic sys- tem, relative to lamps and candles. After discussing, with great minute- ness, the various methods of cook- ing victuals with the least expence of fuel, of warming parlours and chambers with the least quantity of fire, he justly thought it not unworthy of his attention to investigate the means of lighting rooms in the cheapest and succinctest manner. His zeal, in this respect, has been emulated by the French, and the government thought proper to em- ploy a person for the express pur- pose of ascertaining the best mode of obtaining light from the substan- ces usually employed. Some account of these experiments will be curious to many, and certainly has a mani- fest tendency to be useful to all….. They differ in some degree from those of count Rumford. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09420.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09461.xml The following sketches will please those whose minds can overstep their own immediate circle, and draw motives of contentment from the miseries of others. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09461.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09490a.xml Authors and publishers are requested to communicate notices of their works, post paid, and they will always be inserted, free of expence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09490a.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09490b.xml THE editor has received many valuable communications, both in verse and prose, which did not come in due season for the present num- ber. They shall receive due atten- tion in our next: particularly the Adversarian, Valverdi, T. W......., and Sabina. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-09490b.xml Sat, 01 Sep 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10002a.xml AS there seems to be probability of a national difference with Spain, every good citizen must deem it incumbent on him to consider the matter maturely, and to weigh all consequences well before he gives his voice on one side or the other. As the time is hastening when the national legis- lature will open its sittings, and some mea- sures will be proposed by our govern- ment for the sanction of the representative body: this is the moment of deliberation and enquiry. It is impossible that a war ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10002a.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10002b.xml WHEN an injury is received, or thought to be received from one nation by another, the ordinary method of proceeding is to go to war. I must confess it is not very common for the injured nation, on such oc- casions, to deliberate and weigh the impend- ing consequences: to consider whether by war the injury already received will be les- sened or only increased; be repaired or only agravated. Injuries are generally con- strued into insults , and the honor is suppos- ed to be vio... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10002b.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10491.xml ALEXANDER HAMILTON is one of the most eminent persons who have flourished in the United States, and yet, like most other emi- nent personages, he has died with- out leaving any memorial from his own pen behind him. He has left behind him celebrated works imme- diately connected with his political sentiments, character, and situation, but, except in two instances, he has never thought proper to take up the pen, in order to explain the real motives and circumstances of his conduct. Over his early, juvenile history, even over the place and pe- riod of his birth, a veil of impene- trable obscurity is now drawn by his death, since, at these times, he was no object of public attention, and there is no one living who re- members, what he has neglected to record. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10491.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10499.xml THE following short dialogue took place between the writer of this and a lady who had lost her hearing. This had been her situation for many years. People converse with her, and she usually answers them, with pen (or pencil) and paper. It shows so ami- able and rational a mind, though la- bouring under a great calamity, that I cannot resist the temptation to send it to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10499.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10502.xml A FRENCH traveller in Ameri- ca, soon after the peace of 1783, after his return to France, reported that the new states had adopted the pernicious mode of farming their taxes, and what was still more sur- prising and scandalous, the great Washington had not disdained, after laying down his command, to be- come one of the farmers-general. The truth of this being questioned by some of his friends, he informed them that he could not be mistaken, since he had received a positive assurance of the fact from a man (mentioning his name) of high rank and office in the country, at his own table. After such evidence it could not be doubted by the stranger, and by the American who knew better, the man who thus misled a stran- ger, and vilified his native country, was an object of no small reproach. A gentleman hearing this story in France, mentioned it again on his return to America, to the person whose authority had been quoted for the fact; who, after some recol- lection, explained the matter in the fo... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10502.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10521.xml AN American edition of Dr. Hir- zel's “Account of the Rural Socra- tes,” was published some time since in New England, and may be had in most of the towns of the United States. It is the history of a Swiss farmer, known by the name of Kly- ogg, and while, from the very extra- ordinary events and characters it exhibits, it attaches the reader as a romance, yet it displays none but real characters and events. To the young and the old, the lovers of in- dustry, virtue, and religion, it will afford amusement and information; and farmers will find the surest and most economical mode of rendering their farms productive. The Swiss clergy, Lavater included, spoke of it in high terms, even from their pulpits. The celebrated Arthur Young recommends it strongly, and translated and published a portion of it in England, but was not posses- sed of the materials to give the pre- sent much enlarged edition of it, the greater part of which was never be- fore translated into English. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10521.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10530.xml A HOLLAND merchant, travel- ling in a diligence in France, after bearing patiently the loquacity of several companions for some time, at length desired them to desist from interrupting the ride by their conversation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10530.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10531.xml 1. THE death of Hamilton, as might have been expected, has awakened the genius of American eloquence. In many of our princi- pal cities, orations have been deli- vered by eminent men, commemo- rating his talents and virtues. Several of these have already been published, and have reached our hands. Perhaps the most remark- able of these, not only for the talents of the speaker, but for the venerable character of the audience before whom it was delivered, is Mr. Ma- son's, spoken at New York, before the society of Cincinnati. The re- putation of the orator is well esta- blished, and he has not fallen short on this occasion of the dignity and importance of his theme. The res- pectable names of Ames and Otis likewise appear in this list, and they have paid a tribute to the memory of this illustrious shade, which, if he still enjoy any sensibility to terres- trial scenes, he will stoop to receive with satisfaction and complacency. Many other orations have been spo- ken on this solemn occasion, the r... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10531.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10532.xml THE admirers of moral and lite- rary excellence, will receive the highest pleasure from being inform- ed, that there has just appeared, in London, the Life, by the celebrated Mrs. Barbauld, and the entire Cor- respondence, of Samuel Richard- son. This correspondence was prepared for the press by the author himself, and the biography was com- piled from authentic documents and memorandums. The name of Mrs. Barbauld is justly placed among the most illustrious that have done ho- nour to her sex, and a more conge- nial subject could not possibly have been afforded to her pen. Richard- son has experienced a good fortune, which rarely falls to the lot of de- ceased merit. His will appears to have been literally executed at the time he himself prescribed, and by a hand more worthy of his genius than any other which England could at present furnish. The remains of learned men are generally presented to the world either in a different order, or with less completeness, than they themselves had prescrib-... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10532.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10546.xml THE following incidents will amuse the observer of national man- ners, and of the delicate links by which the destinies of men hang to- gether. The female racer will as- tonish those who form their judg- ments of foreign manners by their own. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10546.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10547.xml On the 17th July was celebrated at Verona the beatification of sister Vermique Giuliana, late superior of the convent of capuchins of St. Claire. The miracles performed by this female saint are, according to the legend of the faithful, very numerous, and amount to upwards of 300. Lately, the wife of a wine- merchant, whose favourite saint she always had been, experienced the effects of her prayers and presents, by being delivered at once of three strong healthy boys, after a mar- riage of 18 years, during which she never before had a child. Her hus- band, in gratitude, has presented this saint with a rich diamond cross; and there is not a wife or a husband in that part of Italy, who desire the sterility of their beds to cease, who does not address prayers and offer sacrifices to her shrine. It is said that three convents, possessing for a long time saints famous for the same qualities, intend to bring suits at Rome against this member of the Paradise, as an intruder or interlo- per, their convents being entir... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10547.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10568.xml Authors and publishers are requested to communicate notices of their works, post paid, and they will always be inserted, free of expence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10568.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11571.xml DR. FRANKLIN wrote a short abstract of his own life, in the form of an epistolary communication to his son. This account begins with a historical deduction of his family, and ends abruptly at the period of his marriage, and of the first forma- tion of the library of Philadelphia, about the year 1730, when the hero of the tale was about twenty-four years old. This narrative was composed in 1777, and is one of the most amusing, as well as instructive, biographical performances in any language. It is greatly to be re- gretted, that Franklin laid down the pen here. What a rich fund of curious political information would he have given us, had he continued this memoir to the period of his re- tirement, in old age, at Philadelphia! had he carried us through the bust- ling and various scenes attending the revolution, and related his own ob- servations and experience of men and things, while in a public capa- city in England and France! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11571.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11576.xml There is no institution of the kind, in North America, which bears any comparison, in importance, value, and extent, to the museum in the city of Philadelphia, the founder and conduc- tor of which is C. W. Peale. The credit due to this gentleman can only be rightly estimated by those who are acquainted with the history of this establishment: the small beginning from which it arose, the indefatigable zeal and industry with which it has been reared to its present state, the skill and ingenuity displayed in its arrangement, are all, in the highest degree, honourable to Mr. Peale, and place him by no means low in the list of those, who have advanced the dignity and reputation of his country. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11576.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11579.xml THE following facts are chiefly extracted from a late work, publish- ed in London, by Dr. Thornton, of that city, entitled, “Facts decisive in favour of the Cow-Pox.” They arc submitted to the consideration of every person, who may think the preservation of human life an object worthy of attention. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11579.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11581.xml THE study of the Spanish lan- guage, which has gained consider- able ground lately in America, has owed this increased popularity al- most wholly to mercenary motives. Young men seldom learn it with any other view than to extend and im- prove, by means of it, their connec- tions in mercantile business. They hope to turn an additional penny, by being able to write to a Spanish trader, or converse with him in his native language. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11581.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11586.xml THE dog has always excited the admiration and respect of mankind, not merely from their sagacity, but from their moral qualities. There are very few men who possess some of the moral qualities in a degree equal to many dogs. In the scale, therefore, of moral, that is, of real merit, the dog is frequently superior to human kind. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11586.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11598.xml 1. A VERY valuable work has been for some time published, entitled “The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late commissioner on behalf of the United States, during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800, for determining the boundary between the United States and the posses- sions of his catholic majesty in Ame- rica; containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the dif- ferent countries on the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulph of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, and part of East Florida; to which is added, an appendix, containing all the astro- nomical observations made use of, for determining the boundary, with many others, made in different parts of the country, for settling the geo- graphical positions of some import- ant points, with maps of the boun- dary on a large scale; likewise a great number of thermometrical ob- servations made at different times and places.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11598.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11648.xml Authors and publishers are requested to communicate notices of their works, post paid, and they will always be inserted, free of expence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-11648.xml Thu, 01 Nov 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12651.xml JOHN JAY is well known to be one of the most illustrious charac- ters in the American revolution. He is descended from one of those French protestants, whom the revo- cation of Henry the fourth's edict compelled to seek a refuge in foreign countries. These exiles spread themselves throughout all the pro- testant parts of Europe, and a little colony, somewhat more adventur- ous than their brethren, sought an asylum among the forests and mo- rasses of the new world in the west. They settled on the shore of Long Island sound, where their language and manners are far from being quite extinct, even at this day. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12651.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12655.xml WHEN I first heard of the black chief of St. Domingo bestowing on himself the title of emperor of Hayti, I could not help smiling. I thought, at first, it was the device of some wag, who wanted to ridicule the ambition of Bonaparte, but it turned out to be a specimen of that miser- able and childish spirit of imitation, which some think characteristic of the negro race. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12655.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12657.xml RICHARDSON and Fielding were cotemporaries, and adopted the same kind of composition: that is to say, fictitious biography. The limits of this sphere are extremely wide and comprehensive; and it is somewhat remarkable, that two writers of the same language, pe- riod, and nation, and who both painted from the scene of life before them, should betake themselves to the opposite limits of this sphere; should select objects, characters, and incidents, as remote as possible from each other, in every circumstance but that of living at the same pe- riod, and (as to some of them) be- ing natives of the same country. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12657.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12665.xml The weakness and arrogance of the human understanding are mani- fested in nothing more than in the infinitely various and contradictory expositions of the scriptural pro- phecies, and especially of the book of Revelations, which have been given, at different times, by learned men. To ingenious and endless conjectures of grave students, on this subject, we may add the opinion of the whimsical but learned William Whiston, who published An Essay on the Revelations, in which he conceived some prophecy fulfilled by the victories of prince Eugene. What could Whiston do less than dedicate his essay to the prince, and present him with a copy? And what could the noble Eugene do less than thank him for the compli- ment? The prince, however, pro- fessed, modestly enough, not to have been aware that he had the honour of being known to St. John. The best part of the story is, that he made Whiston a present of fifteen guineas. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12665.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12679.xml WITH thrilling voice and speaking eye, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12679.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12728.xml Authors and publishers are requested to communicate notices of their works, post paid, and they will always be inserted, free of expence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-12728.xml Sat, 01 Dec 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-164.xml I intended this to be a busy day, but can do nothing. My heart is oppressed with sorrow I can think of nothing but melancholy themes. The first impulse, this morning, was to fly to thee but, alas. I shall not find thee alone, & thou wilt be restrained by the stranger's presence from giving me the consolations of thy tenderness The next expedient is to say on paper, what I shall not have an opportunity of saying to thy ear. I will call this afternoon, however: perhaps my Love may be alone. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-164.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-165.xml Philadelphia, July 4th, 1804. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-165.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-166.xml I am sensible that many apologies are due to you for my omit =ting to write to you earlier. I was anxious to transmit to you, agreably to your wishes, some more copies of the proposals for “Valerian,” but no suitable opportunity has hitherto occurred. I shall seize the first that I meet with & hope they may not arrive too late to be of service. I was desirous likewise of being enabled, when I wrote, to acquaint you that some progress has been made in preparing matters for the press. I have not, however, been hitherto able to arrange the papers which you were so kind as to put into my hands. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-166.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT