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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f171-date=1811Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTThe relations, dependencies and connections of the several parts of knowledge. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“The relations, dependencies, and connections of the several
parts of knowledge, have long been a subject of unavailing inqui-
ry with me. In my late commenced correspondence with Eme-
lius, this was the question upon which I demanded his opinion:
he has not yet returned an answer to my letter, though from
his expressions at the meeting at Franklin's, I judge he had some
serious intentions of answering it. The carrying into effect this
scheme of a society, will I am afraid be to him a sufficient ex-
cuse for omitting it. I now intend to try what my own unassist-
ed capacity can do towards classing and separating the several
departments of knowledge. However, to my task.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00018.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTAmidst the various subjects of disquisition…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“Amidst the various subjects of disquisition which naturally
present themselves upon this occasion, inquiries into the ge-
nius and design of this Institution are those, from which most
immediate instruction may be derived, and the talents of the
writer most beneficially employed. As the laws and constitution
of this country will justly claim a principal share of every good
citizen's attention, so it is also incumbent on us, who are mem-
bers of a smaller community, to acquaint ourselves with the na-
ture and reason of that association to which we are united. But
although this is a duty from which none of us can suppose him-
self entirely exempted, it more peculiarly belongs to him who
is destined to begin the career of literary improvement, and
to enter immediately upon that theatre which to others still
remains in distant and imperfect prospect. With what fear or
diffidence he prepares to discharge the duty imposed upon him
he need not mention. When his defects in style or sentiment
are perceived, his fello...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00021.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTCases 1-4. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“The case upon which our decision is expected, is as follows:
A. advertises a reward for the recovery of goods lost: B. finds
them; can B. retain those goods, until the reward is paid? On
the one hand it is insisted that the finder may detain the goods
until he shall receive the reward. On the other hand it is main-
tained that by so doing, the finder becomes liable to an action of
trover and conversion. This is a question on which I cannot give
my opinion without much doubt and hesitation. The case in-
deed very frequently occurs to common experience; but I have
not discovered that it has ever underwent a judicial examination
in the courts of law: and I cannot help thinking that the authori-
ties cited to support the opinions respectively advanced, are con-
nected with our present subject by a distant and imperfect anal-
ogy, rather than by direct implication; that they are calcula-
ted to puzzle and confuse, rather than to aid and confirm the
judgment.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00031.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTJournal entry on William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“I am led to these remarks he continues, by reading over the
letters of my deceased friend W. What a contrast between
his actual deportment, and any notion of that deportment to be
collected by a stranger from his letters. His letters to me are as
confidential as letters can be, yet they form a picture totally the
reverse of his conversation, and his conduct. He had no small
portion of wit, and this power was in part exercised in company;
but the moment he took up his pen to write a letter or an essay,
he forgot all his mirth, became pensive, sentimental and poetical.
To hear him talk one would think that he never had a serious
moment in his life. He literally sung himself to sleep, and awak-
ened in a burst of laughter. To see the effusions of his pen,
one would imagine that he was a stranger to smiles, that he was
forever steeped in tears and wrapped in melancholy. In this
there was nothing that deserved to be called affectation and hy-
pocrisy, since he corresponded only with those with whom he was
occasio...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00043.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTAlcuin parts III and IV. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“I called last evening on Mrs. Carter. I had no previous
acquaintance with her. Her brother is a man of letters, who,
nevertheless, finds little leisure from the engagements of a toil-
some profession. He scarcely spends an evening at home, yet
takes care to invite, specially and generally, to his house, every
one who enjoys the reputation of learning and probity. His
sister became, on the death of her husband, his housekeeper.
She was always at home. The guests who came in search of
the man, finding him abroad, lingered a little as politeness en-
joined, but soon found something in the features and accents of
the lady, that induced them to prolong their stay, for their own
sake: nay, without any well-defined expectation of meeting
their inviter, they felt themselves disposed to repeat their visit.
We must suppose the conversation of the lady not destitute of
attractions; but an additional, and, perhaps, the strongest induce-
ment, was the society of other visitants. The house became,
length, a sort of rende...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00071.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTJournal entry on Alcuin. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Of this treatise Mr. Brown remarks in his journal, “I have
completed a third and fourth parts of the dialogue of Alcuin,
in which the topic of marriage is discussed with some degree
of subtlety at least.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00106.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTCannot you come to me Jessy?.... Brown, Charles Brockden
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“Cannot you come to me Jessy? I want you much. I long
for you. Nay, I cannot do without you; so, at all events, you
must come. That is no objection, my dear, for methinks I hear
you plead, good girl, as you are, your mother's infirmities. I tell
you that is no objection; she can spare you for a week or two
surely: at least, a day or two. She will not miss you for so short
a time. Besides, Jessy, do not be partial,. Recollect you have
a friend as well as a mother, and some attention is due to the first
as well as the last; and I want you more than your mother can
want you. You will be of more service to me than to her; quite
as much, at any rate. I have a better, or an equal claim to have
you with me altogether; but you see I urge not my claim, and I
hope you will give me some credit for moderation. I do not ask
you to come and stay with me constantly, but a week or two, at
this delightful season, I must have.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00108.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTSketches of Carsol. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“THE funds of Carsol amount to an annual payment of two
and an half million of ducats, or 612,500l. sterling. They con-
sist of shares of 100 ducats each; the number of shares is, con-
sequently, 25,000. Cards of the shape and size of a ducat, the
edges hardened by a species of glue, represent this property, and
are transferable like pieces of money. The production of the
card, at the proper office in the capital, entitles it to payment five
times in the year, or twenty dollars at a time, on each share. As
all payments are recorded, the numbers being creditors, pay-
ments may be declined, and the money left to accumulate. This
may happen in consequence of the loss or destruction of a card;
of the absence of the holder, or his voluntary reservation of the
claim. In case of loss or destruction, due proof will be received
by the office, and new cards issued. Old, defaced or torn cards
may be renewed at pleasure.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00170.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTHarry Wallace was a foundling.... Brown, Charles Brockden
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“HARRY WALLACE was a foundling, left in a Christ-
mas morning at the door of a family, by name Wallace, found
at day-dawn by Kate, a laundress.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00222.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTArthur, earl of Orme.... Brown, Charles Brockden
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ARTHUR, earl of Orme, eldest son of earl Vincent, and
Miss Tenbrook, was born in 1702. At 18 years of age (1720)
his father gave up to him the revenue and government of all
his Palatine estates. Athelny and the Na Isles, in which
the political rights of the family were more extensive, and
their landed property more circumscribed than in Orme or Rut-
land, and had been almost entirely neglected by his ancestors,
became the peculiar objects of Arthur's affection and cares. By
a wise, stedfast, and fortunate exertion of his power and re-
sources in the improvement of these territories, during the
greater part of a long life, he raised them to a degree of riches
and population of which no one had thought them capable.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00242.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTSt. Arthur Carril was buried…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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St. Arthur Carril was buried, 1711, in the abbey of St. Elmer,
in pursuance of his own solemn request. The monks of Can-
terbury were extremely loath to give up the honour and advan-
tage of possessing his tomb. They even for a short time, en-
tertained the resolution of burying him in their church, but hav-
ing assembled to fix upon the time and manner of his interment,
he is said to have suddenly appeared among them, and repeat-
ed the injunctions he had given them while living. They no
longer hesitated to obey. An instrument, averring this preter-
natural appearance, and signed by all the members of the con-
vent who were present, is still preserved in the treasury at
Belminster.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00262.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTThe lordships of Orme and Walney…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE lordships of Orme and Walney, came into the king's
wardship by the death of the tenth earl of Orme and Walney,
with no other issue than a daughter under age, in the year
1195, shortly after the return of Richard the First, from Pales-
tine. This prince had been extricated from a perilous situa-
tion, near Acre, by the courage of a military friar of the hos-
pital. The king was anxious to reward this service, but his
preserver merely demanded, that on the king's return to his own
country, he would show his devotion to Heaven, by founding
a monastery, and calling his adviser to the head of it.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00299.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTThe abbey at Holioke has…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The abbey at Holioke has, properly speaking, never been
dissolved. When Henry VIII. granted it to the earls of
Walney, he took no further notice of it. The earl, though
he followed the temporising fashion, then prevalent, was a
good catholic at bottom, and enjoying in his own domain very
considerable power, he suffered the abbey to continue unim-
paired. They recruited their numbers by tuition, and continu-
ed with little visible change in their condition, till the opening
of the seventeenth century. At that period, the number of
members was much diminished, and the spirit and zeal of those
that remained, had from various causes greatly declined. It
now became the principal family mansion of the lord, when he
remained at Orme.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00322.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMTI have already mentioned to you Signior Adini…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I HAVE already mentioned to you Signior Adini. This
name denoted him to be Italian; his real country was a problem
until the period of my story, at which he removed in some de-
gree the mysterious veil that hung over his character. It will
be useful to return, and as an introduction to the events that
here took place, and which rendered him an object of uncom-
mon attention in our little circle, to state various particulars
that had occurred at former periods.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00359.xmlTue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT