http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f31-subject%3Dhistorical%20sketches Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f31-subject=historical sketches Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02086.xml ——THE northern estate called C——, contains about twenty-five thousand acres, and consists of a roundish piece of land, jutting out into the Irish sea, connected, by a narrow peninsula, with the main land of ———shire. The won- ders wrought in this little territory, by the genius of the proprietor, are still more remarkable than those ef- fected in W——, because its condi- tion was far more desolate and for- lorn, when it came into his possession. Its general aspect was that of sterile mountains, whose summits were roughened with rocks, and whose sides were covered with bog and moss, and overrun with heath and fern. Scarcely a fruit or timber tree was any where to be seen….. Near the coast a species of negli- gent and slovenly cultivation took place. About ten thousand acres, or two-fifths of the whole, was di- vided into two hundred farms, each, on an average, consisting of fifty acres, and containing, on the whole, about fourteen hundred persons….. Four hamlets, or villages, composed of cottagers and petty tra... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02086.xml Fri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02120.xml Continued from page 86. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02120.xml Fri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03201.xml EVERY district in Great Britain, of any considerable extent, contains at least the vestiges of an ancient castle and abbey. The ruinous con- dition of these edifices is more ow- ing to the neglect and violence of men, than to the frailty of their structure or materials. The fero- cious avarice and barbarous tyranny of Henry VIII, in England, and the wild fury of a fanatical populace, in Scotland, were the causes of the destruction of abbeys; while the change of manners, which rendered a fortress no longer necessary to personal safety, has occasioned the ruin of castles. In some few instan- ces the abbey, though with a multi- tude of alterations, has become a private dwelling, and the castle, rendered sacred by the images of ancient grandeur and power, has, at an immense expense, been convert- ed to the same use. In general, however, both are reduced to their foundations, and are cherished mere- ly as mementos of past ages. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03201.xml Fri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03214.xml I AM much mistaken if the castle of C—— be not, in many respects, the most extraordinary monument of its kind to be found in Great Bri- tain, and perhaps in Europe. It is true, my acquaintance with build- ings of this sort is extremely limit- ed, and the model of this castle may be common in Italy and Germany, but these, the vestiges of which are scattered over the British islands, seem to be constructed on a plan widely different from this. You must indulge me in giving you some description of it, though I am aware no description, in such cases, can be very clear or satisfactory. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-03214.xml Fri, 01 Mar 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-11392.xml AT a general half-yearly meeting of the society for the support and encouragement of Sunday schools in England and Wales, the committee reported, that since the last general meeting, in October, 1804, they had added fifty-one schools, with the ad- dition of more than 6000 scholars, to the statement then delivered; and that from the commencement of this institution, in 1785, the society had afforded aid, either in books or mo- ney, to 2380 schools, containing 213,011 scholars, for whose use they had distributed 200,974 spelling- books, 46,465 testaments, and 6935 bibles, besides a sum of 41421. 4s. 5d. granted to such schools as stood in need of pecuniary assistance. The effect of that attention which the committee paid to petitions for assist- ance from the principality of Wales begins now to display itself in a man- ner which promises the most exten- sive and happy results. It is alrea- dy ascertained that 115 schools have been established by the society in the counties of Flint, Denbigh, An- glesey, Merione... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-11392.xml Fri, 01 Nov 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-12428.xml WHEN we read the account which travellers give of the mode of living among savages, and even among the class of peasantry in civil- ized nations, we are prompted to exclaim, How little is necessary to human sustenance! When we hear described the habitation of a single room, whose floor is the damp bare earth; whose roof is straw or moss; eight or ten feet high, and ten or twelve in diameter; where the fire is kindled in the middle; whose smoke finds no other outlet, and whose light finds no other entrance, than the door-way; we can scarcely credit the tale. Our credulity is still more shocked, when it is added, that these mansions frequently swarm with young children, who are plump, buxom, and robust. If our own edu- cation has been soft and delicate, our minds are crowded with the number- less wants and perils which are in- cident to matrimonial life, to chil- dren and their mothers, and are at a loss to conceive how these desti- tute wretches are able to exist, or to preserve their progeny in such drea- ry... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-12428.xml Sun, 01 Dec 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00170.xml “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.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00242.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00262.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00299.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1811-00322.xml 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.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1811 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-01222.xml “A mountain in the neighbourhood of Timna was remark- able for caverns almost inaccessible. The devotees of suc- ceeding times delighted to occupy caves which this incident had made so memorable. The city, however, was for some ages, desolate and solitary. Timon, who had been hitherto the tutelary saint of the isle, and had inspired his worshippers with uncommon obstinacy in their resistance of the Saracens, was regarded by those conquerors with peculiar hatred. Hence their severity against his sanctuary, and the last strong hold of the Christians. They razed all the churches dedicated to his honour, and were careful to suppress his shrines, pilgrimages and festivals. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-01222.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1815 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-01359.xml In the following pages on the subject of the Carrils, the author has altered his plan in several particulars from the foregoing. He approaches his Utopian land, but is undeter- mined whether it shall be the dutchy of Taranto or the island of Sardinia. Those sketches must all be considered as in- troductory to his favourite prospect of a perfect system of government. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1815-01359.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1815 12:00:00 GMT