http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f21-date%3D1803%3A%3A01%3A%3A01 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f21-date=1803::01::01 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-02000a.xml IT may be deemed presumptuous, in an ob- scure citizen, to address the rulers of his country, on a theme of such importance as War or Peace; nor would the compiler of this address, have ventured to assume the office of a counsellor, were he not im- pelled by peculiar circumstances. He is not insti- gated by his own interest, for he and his affairs are far remote from the scene of action; and his pros- perity is wholly disentangled from any effect, which the acquisition of the Missisippi, will produce on private conditions. He is not impelled by a vain conceit of his own abilities, for he proposes to draw his arguments from the mouth of an enemy, and, instead of relying on his own abilities, desires to exact attention and regard to nothing but these arguments themselves….In fine, he would not have thought of addressing his country thus, had he not just procured an extraordinary performance, in which the views of the French, relative to Louisiana, are unfolded, too plainly for the interest and safety of the Un... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-02000a.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-02000c.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-02000c.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 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=1803-10044.xml From several of the prosaical works of D'Israeli, we have re- ceived pleasure and instruction. He is a writer who discovers an uncommon store of anecdote, who riots in the luxuries of literature, and leaves the more profound re- searches to minds more patient and inquiring. It is probably well known, that to him we are indebted for Curiosities of Literature, Vari- eties of Literature, Literary Amuse- ments, a volume of Miscellanies, a Sketch of the Times, an Essay on the Literary Character, and the luxuriant and pathetic Tale of Mej- noun. The poems under consider- ation, will not detract from the fa- vourable opinion which we have formed of the talents of D'Israeli. The Narrative Poems are entitled, “The Carder and the Carrier”… “A Tale addressed to a Sybarite.” All of these poems are exemplifica- tions of the passion of love… their plans are extremely simple, and such as do not afford great interest in narration… they are however told very poetically. The first narrative describes an affection which subsist... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-10044.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=1803-11100.xml I was the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a wes- tern district of Pennsylvania. My eld- est brother seemed fitted by nature for the employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and the furrow. His ideas never ranged beyond the sphere of his vision, or suggested the possibility that to-morrow could differ from to- day. He could read and write, be- cause he had no alternative between learning the lesson prescribed to him, and punishment. He was di- ligent, as long as fear urged him forward, but his exertions ceased with the cessation of this motive. The limits of his acquirements con- sisted in signing his name, and spel- ling out a chapter in the bible. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11100.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11104.xml The interest with which we read this poem, was increased by the recent and melancholy termination of the author's life...Mr. Paine was considered and respected by those who knew him, as a scholar and a poet. Several circumstances tended to embitter his life; and over his death, those who have most injured him, will have most cause to lament. It is, however, not our province or desire to dwell on his history, nor are we possessed of sufficient infor- mation concerning him, to become his just and satisfactory biogra- phers. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11104.xml Tue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11110.xml Three days had passed with linger- ing steps away, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11110.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=1803-12163.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=1803-12181.xml My father's sister was an ancient lady, resident in Philadelphia, the relict of a merchant, whose decease left her the enjoyment of a frugal competence. She was without children, and had often expressed her desire that her nephew Frank, whom she always considered as a sprightly and promising lad, should be put under her care. She offered to be at the expense of my educa- tion, and to bequeath to me at her death her slender patrimony. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12181.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 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12186.xml This statue has been improper- ly denominated the “Gladiator of the Borghese Palace.” From the characters of its inscription it ap- pears to be of greater antiquity than any other characterized by the name of the artist. History gives us no particulars relative to Agasi- us of Ephesus, author of this chef d'oeuvre; but the work which he has left, bears the strongest testi- mony of his merit. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12186.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12190.xml This poem seems intended as an imitation of Dr. Johnson's “London.” There is, however, very little similarity in its topics. It is a very brief descant on the dis- couragements which genius meets with in America; on the frailty and inelegance of our architecture, in that mode of building which exposes our towns, and particularly Boston, to the ravages of fire; on the broils and animosities of party, and on the absurdities of fashion and dress, manners, amusements, music and poetry. On each of these topics, the poet expatiates briefly, but with considerable spirit and elegance. He is most copious, and writes with most energy, on the folly of wooden buildings. The lines on this subject, will afford a v... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12190.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Sir Benjamin employed the four first years of his abode at Mu- nich in acquiring the political and statistical knowledge necessary for realizing the plans which his phi- lanthropy suggested to him for im- proving the condition of the lower orders. He did not neglect in the meantime his favourite studies and it was in the year 1786, in a jour- ney to Manheim, that he made his first experiments on heat. Politi- cal and literary honours poured in upon him during that interval. In 1785 he was made Chamberlain of the Elector, and admitted a mem- ber of the academies of science of Munich and Manheim. In 1786 he received from the King of Poland the order of St. Stanislaus; in 1787 he made a journey to Prussia, dur- ing which he was elected a member of the academy of Berlin. In 1788 he was appointed major-general of cavalry and privy counsellor of state. He was placed at the head of the war department, and parti- cularly charged with the execution of the plans which he had proposed for improving the ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12238.xml This extraordinary event, which we briefly noticed in our paper of yesterday, happened on Sunday the 7th of October, at eight in the evening. The day had been previously very cloudy, and a con- tinual rain had fallen, accompanied with squalls, which were not vio- lent, until the sun had sunk beneath the horizon, when the sea appeared to be unusually agitated, and such darkness prevailed, that an object was not discernible at a yard distance. During this progress, every person remained within their houses, in seeming security, and wholly unconscious of that ap- proaching horror which was des- tined so shortly to sweep them from off the earth! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12238.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12239.xml We can promise the public another evidence of the rapid improvement in elegant typography in this coun- try, from Mr. Bradford's edition of “the Letters of Junius, with Notes and Illustrations, Historical, Politi- cal, Biographical, and Critical, by Robert Heron, Esq.” He purpo- ses making it equal in all respects to the London edition, and promis- es to publish it in January. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12239.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12240.xml The Editor thanks his chemical friend for his communication. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12240.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-159.xml I wished to greet my dearest friend, this lovely morning, but was disappointed. You got the start of me, & were already abroad. I wanted to know the cause of last evening’s sadness &, if possible, to dissipate it. I wanted to talk with you & to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-159.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-160.xml Philadelphia, January 18th, 1803. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-160.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-161.xml I received your letter by Mr Linn, & have delayed answering it till I could procure the volume in the hands of Dr Barton. I paid him a visit a few days ago, & got the book. We have had a good deal of conversation on the subject. I am affraid he has not done much for you. The Book arrived while he was engaged in the Annual lectures, & this engagement, added to very evident ill-health, has hindered him from doing as much as he wished to do. He has, however, heaped together a good deal of Scribble, which, he says, satisfies himself so very little, that he doubts whether he shall send it to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-161.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-162.xml I want to see you this afternoon. I hope you will be at home & not unwilling to walk at 3 or 4. OC. Tis a fine day. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-162.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-163.xml The inclosed has been the result of several attempts. It is jejune & unsatisfactory, & nothing but your repeated wishes can induce me to send it to you My wish to oblige you has made me contend with a great many untoward circum- stances in my situation, which forbid me to comment or speculate on such subjects, but you wll see, on reading the enclosed, that the Wish, is all I have to give. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-163.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT