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Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f220-subject=essayWed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMTNotice of a New Work. &c. To the Editor of the Weekly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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virgil.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03202.xmlTue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT[untitled] A.Z. requests to be informed…. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A. Z. requests to be informed of the
meaning of the title of the work lately
announced, for publication, in this Maga-
zine. In answer to him, it may be said
that “Sky Walk,” is nothing more than a
popular corruption of “Ski Wakkee,” or
Big Spring, the name given by the Lenni
Lennassee, or Delaware Indians, to the
district where the principal scenes of this
novel are transacted.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04318.xmlTue, 07 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn Theatres. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A CORRESPONDENT in your
last number has enquired into the
usefulness of theatres. The question
has often been discussed, but, perhaps,
never in a manner perfectly satisfac-
tory. Subjects of this kind are very
complex, and the foundation of our
reasonings lies much deeper than is
commonly supposed. The question
may be stated in the compass of a
page, but could not be thoroughly
discussed in less than a volume.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04323.xmlTue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTSudden Impulses. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“LET us turn down this avenue,”
said I to Matilda, as we were the
other day, walking in the State-House
yard. “It is true, the foliage has not
yet sufficiently expanded to shield us
from the glare of a noon-day sun.
The approach of summer is, as yet,
announced only by the swelling of the
buds, and the balmy vernal breeze.
Yet this situation is more favourable
to observation on the busy human
scene before us, and we are ourselves
more secluded from notice than in the
main walk. It is thus I love to sur-
vey the world. Whether my views
extend to an empire, or are bounded
by an acre, I still wish to place my-
self, as it were, behind the scene. My
youth, my sex, and inexperience, fur-
nish my apology for the indulgence of
this timidity. I am sensible, times and
occasions may occur in which it would
be criminal. But they who have still
to exert their whole energy to dispel
the mist of ignorance and prejudice
by which they are enveloped; whose
whole attention is requisite to weed
from their own minds the seeds of
...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04326.xmlTue, 14 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Effects of Theatric Exhibitions. Brown, Charles Brockden
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TO ascertain the tendency of plays
is by no means difficult. There
is no more powerful mode of winning
the attention, and swaying the pas-
sions of mankind. Mental power is
quite a different consideration from
the moral application of that power.
Genius affords no security from error.
The writers of plays have been gene-
rally necessitous and profligate. They
have therefore written under the in-
fluence of wrong conceptions of duty
and happiness; and, in order to effect
their purpose, which was gain, have
deemed themselves obliged to hu-
mour the caprices and pamper the
vicious appetites, of those who fre-
quent these spectacles.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04357.xmlTue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Effects of Theatric Representations. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHETHER most good, or most
evil flows from theatrical exhi-
bitions? appears to be a question a
correspondent wishes to have decided.
This question has given rise to vari-
ous thoughts, on the subject; should
they lead to the wished-for decision
they are at T. Markright's service.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04360.xmlTue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn Scheming. Brown, Charles Brockden
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EVERY man is more or less a
schemer. It is amusing to remark
the various kinds of schemers which
exist in the world. Some are busied
in forming projects for lessening the
expenses of their family, and others
for augmenting the amount of their
revenue. By far the greater part of
mankind range themselves in the
latter class; not a few are employed
in the former way; and the number
is not inconsiderable of those whose
schemes have no other object than
how to spend with most profusion.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05038.xmlTue, 12 May 1970 12:00:00 GMTQueries. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHAT is the difference between
Newton's method of Fluxions and
the differential calculus of D'Alem-
bert?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06232.xmlTue, 23 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMTAn Instance of Ventriloquism. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE following anecdote relative to
ventriloquism, contains some humour
and is related by most undoubted au-
thority, viz. Adrianus Turnebus, the
greatest critic of the sixteenth cen-
tury, who was admired and respected
by all the learned in Europe. “There
was a crafty fellow,” says he, “called
Petrus Brabantius, who, as often as
he pleased, would speak from his
belly, with his mouth indeed open,
but his lips unmoved, of which I have
been repeatedly eye and ear-witness.
In this manner he put divers cheats
on several persons: amongst others,
the following was well known:—
There was a merchant of Lyons,
lately dead, who had acquired a great
estate by unjust dealings. Brabantius
happening to be at Lyons, and hearing
of this, comes one day to Cornutus,
the son and heir of this merchant, as
he walked in a portico behind the
church-yard, and tells him that he
was sent to inform him of what was
to be done by him, and that it was
more requisite to think of the soul
and reputation of his father, than
thus wander about ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06277.xmlTue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMTA Receipt for a Modern Romance. Brown, Charles Brockden
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TAKE an old castle; pull down a
part of it, and allow the grass to grow
on the battlements, and provide the
owls and bats with uninterrupted ha-
bitations among the ruins. Pour a
sufficient quantity of heavy rain upon
the hinges and bolts of the gates, so
that when they are attempted to be
opened, they may creak most fear-
fully. Next take an old man and
woman, and employ them to sleep in
a part of this castle, and provide them
with frightful stories of lights that
appear in the western or the eastern
tower every night, and of music heard
in the neighbouring woods, and ghosts
dressed in white who perambulate the
place.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06278.xmlTue, 30 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMTUtrum Horum?. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IN this age of free enquiry, it is
rather surprising to find that no one
has undertaken more fully to investi-
gate the character of that being who
is emphatically stiled in the language
of Holy Writ “the evil one.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07297.xmlTue, 07 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMTFacts and Calculations Respecting the Population and Territory of the United States of America. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is well known that about a century ago, the country which now com-
poses the United States of America, contained but a few thousand civilized
inhabitants—and that now, the same country contains four or five millions.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08045.xmlSat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMTFacts and Calculations Respecting the Population and Territory of the United States of America. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Concluded from page 50.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-08071.xmlSat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMTReflections on Moralists and Moral Writings. Brown, Charles Brockden
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ADVICE is generally viewed as a
nauseating potion by those patients to
whom it is administered. It chills
the heart, and discomposes the econ-
omy of the nerves. Hence we find
the adviser and the advice treated
with equal contempt. To render coun-
sel palatable, has been considered by
moral writers as the highest and most
valuable effort of genius. Nor can
we reasonably question their decision
when we contemplate the extreme
difficulty as well as incalculable im-
portance of the art.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-03355.xmlMon, 30 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn Apparitions. In a Letter from a Country Gentleman to his Friend in Town. Brown, Charles Brockden
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PRAY, Sir, what is your opi-
nion respecting the power
which the living may obtain over
the dead? I suppose you will ea-
sily see what it was that put me
upon asking this question. Not
long ago, an instance of this power
was said to be given by a person in
your city, and I want much to know
the truth or falsehood of the tale.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04003.xmlWed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Inequalities of Solar Light. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is an old remark, that the com-
monest appearances in nature,
and the most frequent incidents in
human life, are, when viewed by
the eyes of a philosopher, mysteri-
ous and inexplicable. Men have
puzzled themselves in inquiring
why a stone that is thrown upward
into the air, falls again, after a cer-
tain time, to the earth; and how it
happens that the arm is lifted, mere-
ly because I desire that it should be
so. Not contented with the facts
as they are noted by our senses, our
curiosity conjures up a property,
assigns to it the name of gravitation,
measures its influence by numbers
and lines, and traces its existence
through every part of the universe.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05081.xmlFri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn Almanacks. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Mr. Editor,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05085.xmlFri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMTParallel between Hume, Robertson and Gibbon. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AMONG English writers of his-
tory, common consent seems
to have assigned the first place to
Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon.—
The merit of each of these, com-
pared with that of their contempo-
raries and their predecessors, is un-
doubtedly illustrious. That each
has numerous defects will as readily
be granted; but it will not be ea-
sily or unanimously decided to
which, when compared with each
other, the pre-eminence is due.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05090.xmlFri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. . Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE last number of the second
volume of the Medical
Repository has been published
this month, by Messrs. T. and J.
Swords.—A second edition of the
first and second volumes of that
very valuable work is preparing,
and will shortly appear.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05156.xmlFri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on Style. Brown, Charles Brockden
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DR. Barton, of Philadelphia, has pub-
lished “Fragments of the Natural
History of Pennsylvania: part I.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06237.xmlMon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Stature of Man. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Mr. Editor,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07247.xmlWed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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WE learn that a volume of Ser-
mons, by the Rev. John
Clarke, D. D. late of Boston, is now
in the press in that town, and will
shortly be published.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07316.xmlWed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMTWalstein's School of History. From the German of Krants of Gotha [first part]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WALSTEIN was professor of
history at Jena, and, of
course, had several pupils. Nine
of them were more assiduous in their
attention to their tutor than the
others. This circumstance came
at length to be noticed by each
other, as well as by Walstein, and
naturally produced good-will and
fellowship among them. They gra-
dually separated themselves from
the negligent and heedless crowd,
cleaved to each other, and frequently
met to exchange and compare ideas.
Walstein was prepossessed in their
favour by their studious habits, and
their veneration for him. He fre-
quently admitted them to exclusive
interviews, and laying aside his pro-
fessional dignity, conversed with
them on the footing of a friend and
equal.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08335.xmlSat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Use of Maize. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08345.xmlSat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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PROPOSALS have been lately issued
by Mr. W. W. Woodward of Phi-
ladelphia, for printing by subscription,
the works of the late John Wither-
spoon, D. D. President of the College
of New-Jersey, in three volumes 8vo.—
This edition will contain not only all
the performances of Dr. W. which have
been already published, but several im-
portant articles never yet submitted to
the press.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08395.xmlSat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMTWalstein's School of History. From the German of Krants of Gotha [second and last part]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[Concluded from p. 338.]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12407.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTOn the Number of Printed Books. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12415.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12470.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTDeath of General George Washington. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE death of this illustrious
man, by an abrupt and vio-
lent distemper, will long occupy
the attention of his fellow citizens.
No public event could have oc-
curred, adapted so strongly to awak-
en the sensibility and excite the re-
flections of Americans. No apolo-
gy will therefore be needful for re-
lating the circumstances of this
great event. The particulars of his
disease and death being stated by
the physicians who attended him,
their narrative deserves to be con-
sidered as authentic. The follow-
ing account was drawn up by Doc-
tors Craik and Dick.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12475.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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RUSSIA, by the part she has
lately taken in the contests
and negociations of the western
nations of Europe, has become an
object of importance. The pro-
gress and condition, political and
geographical, of that Empire, are
subjects of curious speculation; but
these speculations seem hitherto to
have led to many erroneous con-
clusions. It is common to allow
our minds to be overwhelmed by
the magnitude of this object, and
not to discriminate between the real
and apparent sources of power and
wealth.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02099.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTHints for a Funeral Oration. Brown, Charles Brockden
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EVERY event has some good
effects mingled with its evil
ones. This is eminetly true with
respect to the death of Washington.
I condole with my fellow citizens
in general, on the loss which they
have sustained in the death of one,
who, in every political exigence,
would have exerted himself for the
common safety, with more likeli-
hood of success, with greater puri-
ty of motives, with more foresight
and caution, and with a larger por-
tion of the general confidence, than
any other man living.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xmlSat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. . Brown, Charles Brockden
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A FRIEND of mine lately de-
sired me to lay aside some
very urgent business in which I was
engaged, to attend to a certain Mr.
Calvert, whom he solicited my
leave to introduce to me. My at-
tention was otherwise engaged, and
I saw nothing in the character of
this stranger that promised to re-
ward me for the time bestowed up-
on him; but my friend was ex-
tremely importunate, and assured
me that I should have no reason to
repent of my compliance. He said
I should be infinitely entertained
with the adventures of the man,
that his life abounded with surpris-
ing turns of fortune, and that he
would prevail with him to tell me
his story.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03172.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03237.xmlSat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMTRemarks on a Passage in Virgil. Brown, Charles Brockden
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VISITING my friend Crito,
lately, I found him in his
closet poring over a collection of
metrical romances, by some of the
old Troubadours. I could not help
censuring that perverse taste which
could find pleasure in the monsters
and prodigies of the Gothic ro-
mance, and expressed much con-
tempt for their incredible exploits,
their absurd images, their lame al-
legory, their spells, and giants, and
winged dragons, their halls of gold,
and their bridges of glass.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04243.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Difference between History and Romance. Brown, Charles Brockden
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HISTORY and romance are
terms that have never been
very clearly distinguished from each
other. It should seem that one
dealt in fiction, and the other in
truth; that one is a picture of the
probable and certain, and the other
a tissue of untruths; that one de-
scribes what might have happened,
and what has actually happened,
and the other what never had exist-
ance.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Literary Ware-House. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04253.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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AFTER a storm of rain with thun-
der and lightning, on the evening
of Saturday the 12th of April, the streets
of this city appeared covered with a
yellow substance resembling sulphur. Se-
veral gentlemen made experiments upon
this yellow dust, and found that it pos-
sessed none of the properties of sulphur, but
was a vegetable substance, supposed the
pollen, or fecundating dust, of the pine
forests of New-Jersey. The same ap-
pearance of yellow dust was also observ-
ed after the same storm, on Long-Island,
more than thirty miles from New-York.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04318.xmlTue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn Early Attachments. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is a common remark, that
friendships formed in childhood
are most permanent. But observa-
tion and experience will lead us to
doubt its truth, and to believe that
the intimacy between children of
the same age rarely continues to
years of maturity. In youth, ab-
sence or a change of fortune, weak-
ens or destroys the sentiment of
friendship. Early attachments, it
will be found, are often unfavour-
able in their impressions, and in-
jurious in their consequences.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05321.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTWhat is Love?. Brown, Charles Brockden
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WAS there ever any satisfac-
tory account given of the
passion of love? Was the subject
ever handled didactically? What
is love? Has this question, so of-
ten asked, ever been properly and
clearly answered?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05323.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Modern Socrates. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is strange that you book-
makers are a race of such grave,
abstruse people, that you are fond
of talking about things with which
most people have no concern, and
in a way that not many can under-
stand, and still fewer are pleased
with.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05326.xmlThu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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BELIEVE me, Mary, that to
the security of matrimonial
felicity, no quality is more necessa-
ry than candour. All reserve, ob-
scurity, or disguise, are produc-
tive of indifference, suspicion, or
distrust. Let my example con-
vince you of the necessity of per-
fect candour, and unbounded con-
fidence in the conjugal union. There
should exist such an unity of interest
that every pleasure or pain should be
common, and all separate enjoy-
ment or suffering is an injury to
its sacred rights.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xmlSun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn a Scheme for Describing American Manners. (Addressed to a Foreigner.). Brown, Charles Brockden
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WHAT strange project is this
which you describe? A
picture of American manners! A
view of our social, domestic, eco-
nomical state! Such as foreign
and future observers, as well as
contemporary ones, shall point to
and say, “This is the scene dis-
played by four millions of actors
on the vast stage bounded by
the Ocean, Florida, Mississippi,
and St. Lawrence, for the three
lustrums ensuing the revolution,
which made the Anglo-Belgico-
Teutonico-North-Americans a na-
tion.” Are you aware of the many
difficulties attending such a scheme?http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07007.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn a Taste for the Picturesque. Brown, Charles Brockden
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A GENTLEMAN, a friend of
mine, who sometimes favours
me with a visit, lately found me at
a window that overlooks New-
York-Bay and its Islands. This
scene, just then, was extremely beau-
tiful, and its beauties were height-
ened by a long-protracted echo oc-
casioned by the evening gun, fired
from the ramparts of the fort on the
Island. My guest took his seat by
my side, and began the talk by
some reflections on the picturesque.
He spoke somewhat to this effect:http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07011.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTDifferences Between Felicity and Happiness. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IS there any difference between
the words felicity and happiness?
If any difference there be, it must,
methinks, be of a very delicate and
subtile nature.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on the Origin of the Claims of Europeans to North-America. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE property of North-Ame-
rica was claimed by the kings
of England, because certain navi-
gators, either their native subjects,
or foreigners authorized by their
commissions, and sailing from their
ports, had descried some parts of its
eastern shore. To have sailed along
the cost was a sufficient bar to the
claims of other christian princes,
provided no other had sailed along
it before. In that case it seems to
have been deemed necessary, not
merely to descry it at a distance,
but to land and leave behind them
some monument, or some inscrip-
tion, by way of taking possession.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07016.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTFriendship: An Original Letter. Brown, Charles Brockden
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LET me thank you, my belov-
ed friend, with tears of true
pleasure, for this letter. How happy
am I in your love and confidence!
How zealous shall I be, and how
proud to deserve it!http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE Monthly Magazine, and American Re-
view, was undertaken with a foresight of the many diffi-
culties which might embarrass and impede its progress for
a time; but, feeling some confidence in the general excel-
lence of their plan, and relying on the aid of friends, and
others well disposed to promote the literature of their
country, the Editors were not intimidated by the gloomy
prospect of the disastrous wreck of former adventurers, or
discouraged by the predictions of a similar fate, from re-
newing the experiment, and again trying the strength and
durableness of public favour and patronage towards literary
projects. Its appearance, too, at a time when no similar
publication was known to exist in the United States, was
justly deemed a circumstance peculiarly favourable to success.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07III.xmlTue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn Conversation. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IT is a pity that the most useful
of intellectual exertions is at
the same time the most difficult, but
such is definition. The difficulty,
indeed, disposes us to decry the
utility, and to call for definitions is,
now-a-days, accounted impolite.
That readiness and accuracy of con-
ception and command of language
requisite to answer such calls, being
seldom or never possessed, the call
is heard generally with anger and
impatience, and he that is used to
make it may pass for logician or
philosopher, but will never be
ranked with polite men; politeness
being merely the art of pleasing, di-
rectly, by soothing the vanity or
banqueting the passions of others,
or, indirectly, by avoiding accusa-
tion, and helping others to conceal
their incapacity or ignorance.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08087.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTRemarks on Short-hand Writing. Brown, Charles Brockden
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SHORT-HAND has grown con-
siderably into use of late years.
In some schools in Great Britain,
it has been adopted as a part of or-
dinary education, and the authors
of schemes of short-hand writing are
never tired of dwelling on its ex-
cellencies and advantages. It may,
therefore, be worth while to reflect
a moment upon the possibility and
limits of this accomplishment.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08092.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTDifferences between Prejudice and Prepossession. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THESE words have differences
that are not easily discovered
or defined. I offer you my opi-
nion on those differences with no
great confidence; but I am a great
friend to inquiries of this nature;
and as some of your readers appear
to resemble me in this respect, I
am willing to throw my mite into
the common fund of instructive
entertainment.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08153.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTTo Correspondents. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“The Speculatist, No. II.” has been received, and will be inserted
in the Magazine for September. A continuance of the communications
of this pleasing writer is requested.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08160.xmlFri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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The Editor is under the necessity of postponing, till the next Number,
the insertion of the poetical piece entitled “Edward and Susan,” and
also the elegy signed “Oscar.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09240.xmlMon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMTFor the Monthly Magazine. Comparison of Blank Verse and Rhyme. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THERE are few persons of a
literary life and conversation
of whom the inquiry has not been
made, Do you prefer rhyme to
blank verse in English poetry?
The true answer, the species of ver-
sification to which our preference is
due, may be easily decided.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10242.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMTFor the Monthly Magazine. Differences between Shade and Shadow. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THESE words are seldom con-
founded in discourse; but it
is still more seldom that any clear
conceptions are possessed of their
precise and respective significations.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10243.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMTThoughts on American Newspapers. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“THE Americans,” said a sple-
netic friend of mine, who
has travelled a good deal in Ame-
rica, “are a nation of readers.
Taking one with another, a far
greater number of the people devote
some of their time to reading, than
of any other people in the world.
In Great-Britain, France, and Ger-
many, those who do, or who can
read, bear a very small proportion
to the rest. They are scarcely one
to twenty; but, in America, almost
every man is a student.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10259.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT[A letter] To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine [containing a criticism of the Monthly Magazine]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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IN estimating the various means
of enlarging the understanding
and meliorating the heart, I have
long considered periodical publica-
tions extensively useful. Influenced
by this sentiment, I no sooner saw
your proposals than I became a sub-
scriber to your Magazine. To in-
timate that I have parted with my
money without an equivalent, or
perused the several numbers with-
out benefit, would be uncandid:
but being neither philosopher nor
critic, physician nor divine, I
have certainly derived less pleasure
and improvement from the work
than my knowledge of your cha-
racter had led me to expect. My
animadversions, however, are not
intended to imply a censure on the
execution of the several depart-
ments, but to show the impropriety
of admitting some of them into the
plan.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10264.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMTAnswer to a Letter from A.Z. 'To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[The Editor is ever ready to lis-
ten to the remarks of his friends
and correspondents, and to profit
by their advice in his exertions to
please and benefit those who honour
his work with a perusal. His scheme,
as first announced, is very com-
prehensive, adapted as well to the
moralist as the philosopher, critic,
physician, and divine. Literature
and science have a strong connec-
tion with morality: and, although
the Editor is not less sensible than
A. Z. of the superior importance of
those performances which have im-
mediate relation to the latter, he
cannot but think that a plan which
comprehends other branches of
knowledge, will be approved by the
majority of readers. His design is
to render his work as extensively use-
ful as possible; to furnish a re-
spectable vehicle for all those who
have leisure and inclination to write,
to convey their thoughts to the
public. The department of morals
is not limited; and it depends on
the number and zeal of his corres-
pondents whether it shall conta...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10265.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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The “Ode to Samuel Low, Esq.” by “CENSOR,” though ex-
pressive of correct opinions, is, in manner, not fully adapted for publica-
tion in our miscellany.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10320.xmlWed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMTObjections to Richardson's Clarissa. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Sir,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11323.xmlSat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT[The editor's answer to ""Mr. Webster's Letter to the Editor, on the Review of his History of Pestilence. ...""]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[☞ A sincere desire that ample
justice should be done to the merits
of every author, has induced us to
insert the foregoing letter, which,
as it concerns a subject interesting
to science, and, indirectly, to sound
criticism and literature, will, we
hope, notwithstanding its length,
be favourably received by our
readers. We shall always be hap-
py to have our decisions rectified
when they are wrong; for, as men
and individuals, we have neither
the vanity or folly to suppose that
our judgments are infallible.—In
matters of taste and criticism, as
well as of morality and history, we
have not yet discovered any mode
by which the truth of our opinions
could be demonstrated.—To the ma-
thematical and physical sciences,
belongs that demonstrative power
which at once unfolds the truth and
removes all doubt and uncertainty;
but, concerning those things about
which wiser, older, and more learned
men have differed in opinion, a
reviewer may be allowed to doubt.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11339.xmlSat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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“Disconsolate Eliza,” by “HENRICUS,” does not possess all that ten-
derness and passion, and that poetic diction, which the subject demands,
and which would entitle it to a place in our poetical department. It ap-
pears to be the production of youthful genius, and, as such, may afford
the promise of better things. The judgment of the editor must controul
his wishes to gratify this correspondent.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11400.xmlSat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn Mottos and Quotations from the Ancients. Brown, Charles Brockden
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SIX hundred years ago, when all
who aspired to literature were
obliged to seek it among the re-
liques of the Greeks and Romans,
the learned languages ceased to be
dead tongues. In correspondence,
conversation, and publication, the
only medium was Latin. In the
progress of improvement, though
the ancient tongues were gradually
supplanted, in popular perform-
ances, by the modern, yet writers
being early imbued with the ancient
literature, and intimately conversant
with it, their topics, their opinions,
and their images, continued to flow
from that source.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12404.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTThe Point of Honour in America. Brown, Charles Brockden
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SEDUCTION, and murder by
duel, are the remnants of the
ancient manners of Europe. These
have sometimes been more politely
styled gallantry and the point of
honour; and, such is the influence
of names, that gallantry and honour
are soft and inoffensive sounds,
though their acceptation be pre-
cisely similar to seduction and mur-
der.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12408.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn the prevailing Ignorance of Geography. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AN American gentleman was
once entertained by a Welsh
knight. It was at the opening of
the American war, on which the
discourse naturally turned. The
knight, after some discussion on
the causes of the troubles, very
shrewdly observed that the troops
designed for the service would have
a very long march.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12410.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTA Miser's Prayer. Brown, Charles Brockden
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THE falsehood and selfishness
of the human heart has been
the theme of moralists and satyrists
ever since the days of Job and
Juvenal. The numberless ways in
which our own interest intrudes
upon our contemplations, and per-
verts our wishes, has often been
observed. Some poet has taken
occasion to exemplify these perver-
sions in detailing the prayers put
up, by a great number of votaries,
at the shrine of some popular di-
vinity. He represents the indigent
as praying for wealth, the unmar-
ried for an husband, the childless
for offspring, and the impatient
heir for the death of the present
possessor.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12412.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTOn the Portraits of Death. Brown, Charles Brockden
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AS an admirer of the fair sex,
and trembingly alive to every
thing that affects their character, I
have presumed, of late, to censure
several females of my acquaintance
for their love of politics. They
listened, with admirable attention,
to all I thought proper to say on
the subject. A few evenings since,
I renewed my arguments with two-
fold earnestness. When I paused
to see if there were any to applaud
my opinions, a sprightly and sensi-
ble girl, as if resolving on a piece
of revenge, turned towards a female
visitant who had observed a pro-
found silence the preceding part of
the evening, and asked her, gaily,
if women had not an equal right
with men to be politicians. I drew
near to hear the dialogue. Timo-
rously blushing, she replied, “No,
my dear.”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12416.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Articles of Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . Brown, Charles Brockden
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http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12472.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTCorrespondence. Brown, Charles Brockden
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“CANDIDUS” was received too late to appear in this Number. The great length
of his quotations is some objection to the insertion of his communication. If they
could be curtailed, or a reference be made to the pages of the printed volume, it
would be more agreeable to the generality of readers. The change, however, which
is about to take place in this publication, may induce Candidus to seek some other
vehicle for a speedier publication, unless content to wait the appearance of the next
Review.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12480.xmlMon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMTManners and Amusements of Amsterdam. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Our manners, said a gentleman from Hol-
land, in a dining company, where I was lately,
are very different from yours; and, if you will
give me leave to say so, much more agreeable:
that, however, may arise from my national im-
pressions.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-03077.xmlSat, 07 Mar 1801 12:00:00 GMTMadelina. To R. L.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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MADELINA, you wish me to draw your cha-
racter. What a strange wish, to be preferred by
a young lady to a young man, who has seldom
seen you, at times and in situations which admit
of no disguise, and which draw forth all our secret
foibles and who, at best, has neither a sober nor
impartial judgment. Still, however, I will do my
best. If I blame you, your pride may occasionally
impute it to my ignorance; if I praise, your mo-
desty will naturally suggest some doubts of the
sincerity of one, who sets a very high value on
your good opinion, and who thinks your smiles
cheaply bought, even at the price of some dupli-
city.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-04105.xmlSat, 10 Apr 1802 12:00:00 GMTAmerican Lounger, No. 32. Brown, Charles Brockden
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May heaven have compassion upon those whose
doom it is to ply the quill in hot weather! If this
task require uncommon diligence, at any time, it
makes double demands upon us at a sultry season.
And if the habitually industrious, may claim some
excuse for indolence, at such a time, the Lounger
cannot doubt of a ready forgiveness.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-09281.xmlSat, 11 Sep 1802 12:00:00 GMTThe Editor['s] Address to the Public. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTExtracts from A Student's Diary [No. I]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTAscendancy of the French Language. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTThe Epithet Royale. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTSummary of Politics. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTMiscellaneous Extracts. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlSat, 01 Oct 1803 12:00:00 GMTA Student's Diary [No. II]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMTAbstract of the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlTue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMTRemarkable Occurrences. Brown, Charles Brockden
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philadelphia, oct. 27.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11153.xmlTue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMTNote from the Editor. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The Editor of this work having
engaged in a very arduous under-
taking, is conscious that his success
will in a great measure depend upon
the literary aid which he shall re-
ceive from his friends, and the
Literati of this country… He, there-
fore, most earnestly, solicits from the
polite scholar, the contributions of
their genius and leisure: while the
Editor performs all that is in his
power, he hopes that they will not
permit another attempt to extend
abroad useful knowledge, to perish.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-11158.xmlTue, 01 Nov 1803 12:00:00 GMTA Student's Diary [No. III]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT
MEMORANDUMS MADE ON A JOURNEY THROUGH PART OF PENNSYLVANIA. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMTCritical Notes. No. III. Analysis of Milton's 'Il Penseroso. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT[Editor's Introduction to] Chemical Question. Brown, Charles Brockden
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[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.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT[Account of the Statues, Busts, &c in the Collection of the Academy of Arts. New York; The Phthian [sic] Apollo: called the Apollo Belvedere. Venus of the Capital. Laocoon. Brown, Charles Brockden
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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.xmlThu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT