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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f172-date=1798::02Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTThe Man at Home. No. I. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I KNOW not whether my pen will
afford me any amusement in my
present condition. I have been little
accustomed to the use of it, but I
have nothing else to do, and my pre-
sent situation stands in need of being
beguiled of its cares. I am without
books, and am not permitted to leave
my chamber. I have, therefore, no
alternative. This, or nothing is my
lot. I cannot consent to pass a life
of inactivity. But what shall I write?
There is something whimsical in this
undertaking. For a man of my ha-
bits, at the age of sixty, to sit down
to the writing desk! Nothing would
have been less expected a month ago,
and nothing but the unfortunate cir-
cumstances in which I am placed
would reconcile me to it.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xmlTue, 03 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMTThe Man at Home. No. II. Brown, Charles Brockden
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GO thy ways for an honest crea-
ture. I cannot explain to thee,
in an intelligible way, the true nature
of my condition; or perhaps I might
be disposed to gratify thy curiosity.
I have no need to dread from thee
any imputations on the honesty of my
proceeding. Casuists have, long ago,
settled that point. By casuists such
as thou, it would never be brought
into question. That action may be
wrong, which law has thought proper
to prohibit and punish. He that per-
petrates it may be truly criminal.
The action by which we incur punish-
ment is unjust, but what is to be said
of the means by which we elude the
penalty? No doubt an highwayman
is criminal, but after the commission
of the deed, he endeavours to elude
his pursuers. Do these endeavours
enhance his guilt? When taken, and
dungeon-doomed, and fettered, does
duty restrain him from breaking his
chains, and restoring himself, by the
exertion of dexterity or strength, to
liberty?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xmlTue, 10 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMTThe Man at Home. No. III. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I AM sitting here employed in this
way, from a notion that it is the
only practicable employment: It is
the only exercise, as I suppose, within
my reach. This perhaps is an error.
In one sense my sphere is a small one.
My observation is limited to an area
of twelve feet square; but surely it
becomes me to examine every thing
within this space. If it be small, the
examination is proportionably easy.
If our means are few, the motives
seem to be enhanced for making the
best use of them of which they are
capable.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xmlTue, 17 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMTThe Man at Home. No. IV. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I HAVE talked with Kate upon the
subject of this chest. Her infor-
mation, as I expected, is not very
satisfactory. When she first applied
for this house it was untenanted. Its
recent inhabitants had been destroyed
by the reigning malady. The scanty
furniture that was possessed by them,
had been partly sold by the landlord
for the payment of arrears. The rest,
such as beds and clothes, had been
buried or burnt, on account of the in-
fection which they were supposed to
have imbibed. The seeming worth-
lessness of this trunk, and the difficulty
of removing it, had rescued it from
the general wreck. In the terms which
he made with Kate, the landlord al-
lowed her to act, with regard to this
piece of furniture, as she thought
proper.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xmlTue, 24 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT