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The plot, is simple, but interesting. —The circumstances attending it are supposed to have taken place in the days of comparative rudeness, when Europe had not yet emerg- ed from the gloom of Barbarian ignorance unfold one of those solemn and affecting scenes which so greatly abound in Gothic story. It is the tale of injured innocence & murdered greatness, and is told with great beauty, affecting simplicity, nay often with uncommon, pathos. Not one ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-01003.xml Sun, 18 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05035.xml Of the Fundamental Principles on which General Establishments for the Relief of the Poor may be formed in all Countries. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05035.xml Tue, 12 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05065.xml THE subjects hitherto discussed by this writer relate, generally, to the best mode of supplying the neces- sities of the poor. They are topics, therefore, in a considerable degree, political. The field of enquiry in the third essay is interesting, in dif- ferent degrees, but in a direct man- ner to every individual. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05065.xml Tue, 19 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05097.xml AMONG all kinds of vegetable food, Count Rumford assigns the pre- ference to Indian corn. The exten- sive use of it in Italy, under the name of Pallenta, and in North America, evinces its nutritiousness and whole- someness. In the countries cultivated by negro slaves, it is generally pre- ferred by them to rice, which they account the more fugitive and less substantial food. In addition to this, it is known to be producible in larger quantities than other grain; hence the propriety of encouraging the cul- tivation and extending the use of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-05097.xml Tue, 26 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06129.xml THE remaining part of this essay is of less importance than the fore- going. We have already dwelt so copiously on this work, that little will be said on that which still re- mains to be noticed. We shall over- look his commentaries upon cut paste or maccaroni. The ingredients are not cheap, nor the process easy; and it is not prepared by professed cooks, in this country. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-06129.xml Tue, 02 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07370.xml THIS memoir was read before the American Philosophical Society, and will appear in the next volume of the Transactions of that learned body. In the interim, the author has caused a few copies to be printed for distri- bution, but not for sale. He did not, however, content himself with merely committing his original paper to the press, but considerably altered and somewhat enlarged it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07370.xml Tue, 21 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07394.xml HAVING thus disposed of the doctrines of some of his predecessors, Dr. Barton proceeds to say: “The result of not a little attention to the subject has taught me, that there is but one wonder in the business;— the wonder that the story should ever have been believed by a man of understanding, and of observation.” —Fascination, we are informed, is almost entirely limited to birds that build low, and “in almost every instance, I found that the supposed fascinating faculty of the serpent was exerted upon the birds at the particu- lar season of their laying their eggs, of their hatching, or of their rearing their young, still tender, and defence- less. I now began to suspect, that the cries and fears of birds supposed to be fascinated originated in an en- deavour to protect their nest or young. My enquiries have convinced me that this is the case.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-07394.xml Tue, 28 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04045.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04045.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04047.xml THE lives of distinguished men are, undoubtedly, among the most interesting and instructive ob- jects of attention. Upon this prin- ciple, it has been said, that every great man owes it to society to leave them some account of the progress of his mind, and the most remarkable circumstances attending the various steps of his intellectual and moral course. If these elevated minds could always be faithful to themselves and the public, we have no hesitation in believing that such biography would be the most use- ful. But where such cannot be ob- tained, the surviving friends render a useful and acceptable service to their fellow creatures, when they, with fidelity, supply the defect. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04047.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04048.xml THERE appears to be some just- ness in the remark, which has been frequently made, that there are few kinds of composition more dif- ficult to execute well than discourses from the pulpit. The writer of such discourses finds himself called upon, at stated and very short intervals, to deliver his sentiments before an in- telligent audience, on subjects which, though infinitely important, are trite, plain, and previously understood. Even these two circumstances of a stated task, and a beaten path, are calculated to blunt the edge, and cool the ardour of the mind; and, therefore, of themselves present a serious difficulty. But the christian divine has still greater difficulties to contend with. It is his business to unite powers which are rarely found to meet in any one man. He is called upon to be didactic, and yet, more or less, declamatory—precise, and yet popular—guarded, and yet impassioned—inventive, and yet mindful of his revealed guide—to descend to the depths of metaphysic, and yet rise to the ferv... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04048.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04050.xml THIS oration is designed to do honour to the memory of a young physician, who died last summer, a victim to the pestilence by which Philadelphia was laid waste. It is written by one who enjoyed his friendship and inter- course; a member of the same pro- fession, and an associate in the same studies and amusements. These circumstances, no doubt, induced the Medical Society to se- lect him as the eulogist or biogra- pher of Samuel Cooper. It was not unreasonable to expect the am- plest information, with regard to the merits and demerits of the dead, from one thus qualified; and, if these were the only qualifications required, our hopes had not been disappointed by the present pro- duction. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04050.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05117.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05117.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05124.xml THE work here presented to the public is written by one who sustained the important character of Major-General in the American ar- my, from the commencement to the termination of the late revolution- ary war. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05124.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05127.xml A FULL, clear, and compre- hensive treatise on that branch of our laws which relates to the of- fice and duty of executors and ad- ministrators, must be highly useful to all who are called upon to dis- charge those important trusts, and, we believe, has long been wished for by gentlemen of the profession. The volume here offered to our rea- ders, though it may not be regard- ed as exhibiting a very scientific and luminous display of the subject, yet, from the copious digest of the law, and the practical directions which it contains, will be very acceptable to all who are interested to acquire a knowledge of this portion of our laws. The preface points out the necessity of such a publication, and the laudable motives which induced the author to undertake the present work. We concur in the opinion of the author, that some knowledge of the general principles and essen- tial forms of the law, respecting last wills and testaments, should be pos- sessed by all, who, from their cha- racter and situation in life, may... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05127.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05128.xml “TWO motives, principally,” says the author in his pre- face, “have induced me to publish the following discourse; the one is, that those who disapproved of cer- tain parts, may have an opportunity of giving them a second and dispas- sionate consideration; the other is, that the sentiments advanced ap- pear to me highly seasonable, and ought to be diffused as extensive- ly as possible. The discourse is printed, word for word, as it was written in the first copy, and only three sentences, which will be found marked, were forgotten at the time of delivery. This is mentioned to apologize for the inaccuracies which will occur, and which would have been corrected, had it not been judged best scrupulously to adhere to the very words, which all who were present can be called to attest.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05128.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05129.xml This discourse was delivered on the same occasion with the last. It maintains, with equal zeal, the importance of Christia- nity, to the welfare of civil socie- ty; and is not less decided and warm in inculcating the duty of sup- porting the government of the United States. The text is chosen from Isaiah xxvi. 9. When thy judgments are in the earth, the inha- bitants of the world will learn righte- ousness. After a short and appro- priate introduction, the author pro- poses, 1. “To show in what con- sists the right improvement of pub- lic evils and dangers;” and, 2. “To apply the subject to the present cir- cumstances of the world, and espe- cially of our own country.” Under the first head, Mr. K. undertakes to show, that the judgments of God call us, 1. To acknowledge his providence; 2. To submit to his will, and confide in his wisdom and power; 3. To repent of all sin; and, 4. To return to the practice of our whole duty, and especially those parts of it to which recent experi- ence, or the exigencies of th... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05129.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05132.xml COUNT RUMFORD is not only singular in the subjects he has chosen, but in the mode in which they are discussed. He does not content himself, like most of other schemers, with arguing on remote, specious, and untrodden grounds: All his deductions are drawn from actual experiments.— The design must, in all cases, pre- cede its execution; but such was the singular situation of this man, as to enable him to reduce his theories to practice, and offer them to the world, not as projects which were merely plausible, but as the une- quivocal results of experiment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05132.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05134.xml THE extent and variety of this work will not allow us to ex- hibit more than a general view of its plan and execution. With some exceptions, which do not appear to be very important, the plan com- bines as many advantages, and in- curs as few difficulties and embar- rassments as any that could well be selected for an undertaking of this compass. In the execution, it re- quires no great fund of knowledge to perceive, that many mistakes, unnecessary repetitions, and even culpable omissions have taken place. Such faults are, however, almost inseparable from a collection, so extensive and multifarious as that now before us. Undertaken by dif- ferent hands, possessing various de- grees of ability and qualification, the several parts are often defective in concert, and necessarily display in- equalities of merit. “But if much has been omitted, let it be remem- bered that much has likewise been performed.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05134.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05135.xml THE lovers of poetry, in Ame- rica, still look for the grati- fication of their taste to the pro- ductions of the British bards. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05135.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05137.xml THIS very handsome and cheap edition of a very useful work, cannot but be acceptable to all those who are engaged in naval affairs. Compilations, in the form of diction- aries, by affording a cheap, commo- dious, and comprehensive mass of information for every class of read- ers, are deservedly esteemed, as aiding the extension of useful knowledge. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05137.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06217.xml THE day which gave birth to a nation, which is distinguish- ed as the era of its sovereignty and independence, eminently deserves to be commemorated with every demonstration of gratitude and joy. Nations who have loved liberty, have ever delighted to celebrate the virtues and atchievements of those by whom their freedom hath been attained or preserved. By a recur- rence to the spirit and conduct of their ancestors, they have sought to keep alive and perpetuate those sentiments to which they were in- debted for the enjoyment of the noblest attributes of man. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06217.xml Mon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06225.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06225.xml Mon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06229.xml (Continued from page 134.) http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06229.xml Mon, 01 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07287.xml A Publication like the pre- sent is, in some respects, of no very permanent or momentous kind. It is an actual address to a select assembly: its topics are ne- cessarily drawn from popular, and, therefore, limited and temporary sources: it is confined to bounds, not consistent with abstruse or complex reasoning, and must be modelled after a looser, more super- ficial, and diffuse pattern, than if it were the fruit of years, were ex- tended to a volume, and were de- signed to instruct posterity, and the whole of mankind, on subjects connected with the interests of the whole. It must be considered as a speech composed in a few hours, and delivered, in forty minutes, to some hundreds of auditors. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07287.xml Wed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07293.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07293.xml Wed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07299.xml (Continued from page 232.) http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-07299.xml Wed, 01 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08369.xml THIS singular and amusing piece of oratory commences with a quotation from Swift's de- scription of the Grand Academy at Lagando, in Laputa, by which that ingenious and witty writer has ridiculed the pretended discoveries, and useless projects of philosophers and artists, and censured the abu- ses of learning and science. Sup- posing the philosophers of the pre- sent day, not less fertile in extrava- gant schemes than the learned academicians of Laputa, Mr. D. points the shafts of ridicule at those, who have laboured to construct self- moving machines; to ascend the air in balloons, or dive to the bottom of the ocean. He observes, that agri- culture has not escaped the rage for theoretic improvement, and the la- bours of the speculative husband- man are suspended, and his uten- sils neglected, in the hope of a har- vest without toil. The contagion of theory has also extended to medi- cine, education, morals and politics: Hippocrates, Galen and Sydenham, have given... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08369.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08373.xml BY an institution of the town of Boston, the orator of the 4th July is required to consider “the feelings, manners, and principles,” which led to the declaration and establishment of our national Inde- pendence.—That the transaction or event, which a person is selected to elucidate and embellish by his elo- quence, should be the main sub- ject of his performance, seems an obvious and essential requisite in its composition. Each successive orator, necessarily finds the ground, in some degree, pre-occupied, and the prescribed path, more and more beaten by those who have preced- ed. He is compelled to take a wider range in search of novelty, by which to interest the feelings, and enchain the attention of his audience; or, adhering to the more appropriate, but already exhausted topics of ar- gument and illustration, be con- tented to merit or incur the impu- tation of indolence or dulness, by trite argumentation and stale re- mark, by repeated congratulation, and the reiterations of self-appla... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08373.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08376.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-08376.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12442.xml THIS is an accurate and elegant description of a machine, by which three tiers of beams are raised to a considerable height in the air. The advantage of this contrivance lies in the beams being raised and lowered at will, speedily, and with the application of moderate force. These effects are producible, on this occasion, by pullies, cords, and a windless. The uses of this machine, or those particulars in which it sur- passes the utility of a common structure of the same kind, but whose elevation is permanent, are not pointed out in this memoir, and do not readily occur to us. The difference, in bulk and weight, be- tween this machine folded and wound up, is nothing; and the difference in cumbrousness and facility of transportation, appears to be very inconsiderable, if, indeed, it be any thing. This difference, however, is all that exists to compensate, first, the additional bulk, weight, and ex- pense of cords, metallic pullies, and windlesses; secondly, the animal force requisite t... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12442.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12445.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12445.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12449.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-12449.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01030.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01030.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01047.xml [Continued from p.445 of vol. i.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01047.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01055.xml WE should not notice a per- formance of so transitory a nature as the present, so long after its appearance, if its compara- tive merit were not so great as to render it more worthy of attention than most of the class of similar publications. We regret that it was not put into our hands at an earlier period; but, should it be indebted to this circumstance for a longer existence, the writer may be com- pensated for our tardy approbation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01055.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01061.xml [Continued from p. 453 of vol. i.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01061.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02108.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02108.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02115.xml [Continued from p.53.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02115.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02120.xml IT may be said, without deroga- tion to the numerous rhetorici- ans who have devoted their genius to the same theme, that popular es- teem was more ardent and unani- mous with respect to this orator, than to any of his compeers. His personal acquaintance with that great scene in which the late Presi- dent performed so memorable a part; the maturity of his age; the ample limits of his observation, and the long exercise of his intelligence on political topics, were justly imagined to place him far above all other competitors for this office, and carried to a very lofty pitch the ex- pectations of the public. This eu- logy, stripped of all the fascinations of looks and gesture, and all the magic of tones, is now submitted to our sober and dispassionate in- spection, and the delicate and ardu- ous function is assigned to us of weighing its topics, and scrutiniz- ing its style. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02120.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02122.xml THE fire that pervades this composition is, by no means, of so sparkling a kind as that by which the former is animated and brightened. There is nothing which, in any degree, rises above the hu- mility of prose. If there be no strains of uncommon eloquence, there is, at least, no tincture of af- fectation, no painful efforts to at- tain sublimity and grandeur. There is none of that glittering imagery and elaborate conscieness which prove the writer to be more engaged in displaying and contemplating his own perfections than those of the deceased. There is earnestness, if not pathos; and, if he depicts in ex- aggerated colours the national grief, he is led into this error, less by the precepts of a fulsome and phantastic rhetoric, than by the mournful suggestions of his own mind. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02122.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02124.xml FOR several years past the orators on the anniversary of Ameri- can independence have ben freed from the tramels which formerly beset them, in undertaking their holy-day task. The awful convul- sions of Europe, and the conflicts of party animosity in our own country, have furnished ample sub- stitutes for the old and thread-bare topics of British oppression, the value of independence, the blessings of civil liberty, and the rising glory of our new world. Of this oppor- tunity to depart from the beaten path, Mr. L. has availed himself. Instead of dwelling on themes for- merly considered appropriate to the occasion, he prefers the more popu- lar subjects of domestic broils, the French revolution, and the horrors produced by political licentiousness and false philosophy, in every coun- try in which French power and principles have gained the ascend- ancy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02124.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02125.xml THE death of General Wash- ington has produced sensa- tions in the public mind, and called forth expressions of sorrow for his loss, and of respect to his memory, which are, probably, without a pa- rallel in the history of man. Over his tomb the spell of party is dis- solved; the conflicts of opposing politicians are suspended, and the American people, with one heart, and with all the ardour of filial af- fection and gratitude, crowd around, to do honour to his ashes. Seldom have those who contend that Re- publics can be grateful, been fur- nished with a more remarkable in- stance in support of their opinion than the manner in which the citi- zens of the United States have treat- ed the memory of their political fa- ther. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02125.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02128.xml ON perusing this Address, we could not forbear to remark a strain of sentiment very different from that of other performances; on the like occasion, which have come before us. The subject is the same, but the topics of argu- ment and illustration, as well as the manner in which they are treated, are greatly dissimilar. Dr. M. tells his hearers that he came not to de- liver the language of flattery and declamation to “tickle their ears” or to amuse their fancy with the flowers of rhetoric. His purpose is to talk with plainness and candour about independence, and the na- ture and characteristics of a repub- lican government. He does not, therefore, seek to gain their favour by flattering their prejudices, or to awaken their feelings by depicting the splendid attributes of national sovereignty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02128.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02131.xml PERFORMANCES like the pre- sent, which are of a temporary and fugitive nature, are not always expected to be elaborately wrought, or exquisitely finished. Indeed, on the present occasion, there is danger, lest the imagination of the orator, so powerfully impressed with the magnitude and grandeur of his subject, should lead him astray from the path of a just and manly eloquence. Too many of those who have attempted to eulogize the father of our country, have indulged an undisciplined and lawless fancy, which has produced nothing but extravagant bombast, outrageous metaphor, and splendid conceit. Pleased with the creations or distor- tions of their own imaginations, they have wholly lost sight of the noble simplicity, and true dignity of that great man whom they wish to honour and immortalize by their matchless strains. His productions would have furnished them with models of a pure and correct style, replete with the lessons of wisdom and truth, the result of a keen pene- tration and just discrimination, long ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02131.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02139.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02139.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03208.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03208.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03213.xml MR. TURNER is of opinion that “these remains evince a member of the herbivorous order; and, from their extraordinary size, prove, that they belong to some link in the chain of animals, which, like that of the Mammoth, has long been lost. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03213.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03217.xml RHETORICK has been lavish of its homage to the memory of Washington; but we recollect only this and one other considera- ble specimen of poetry which this occasion has produced. On this account, therefore, as well as on others, these specimens deserve par- ticular attention. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03217.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03219.xml WE are highly pleased with the chaste and temperate strain of this discourse. In many cases this theme has suggested the wild- est flights of imagination that we have ever witnessed. The orators seem to have thought that no effort could equal the greatness of their theme. They have sparkled and glittered till our sight has been daz- zled, and pained; and we light, with uncommon satisfaction, on a piece of smooth and unostentatious verdure like that before us. Our sight is invigorated and refreshed, and enabled to resume its gaze upon the glaring meteors which the fa- shionable rhetorick is constantly darting athwart our horizon. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03219.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03221.xml THE bill of fare contained in the title-page did not awaken very high expectations of the com- ing banquet. The Commander in Chief was only Lieutenant-Gene- ral, and the day and year of his death would have been proper to identify his person, if he had been liable to be mistaken for another. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03221.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03222.xml THIS oration is suitably intro- duced by reflections on the useful tendency of public acts of mourning, and monuments of gra- titude, for such as have benefitted mankind, to inspire the living with similar virtues; and on the re- ference which ought always to be made, on those occasions, to our Maker, from whom every perfect gift is derived. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03222.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224a.xml THIS is a brief and simple nar- ration of the principal events of the life of General Washington, from his youth to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, delivered in plain and perspicuous language. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224a.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224b.xml THE topics of this orator are in no respect different from those we have very often noticed in the numerous publications on the same occasion. There is no- thing in his style and manner that merits particular attention. His effusions of admiration and grief are those of a grateful and virtuous heart. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03224b.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03225.xml AS both of these translations are from the same German play, our remarks on them, and the play itself, will be comprised under this article. Great liberty is allowable in the adoption of dramatic titles. The original words, wild fang, taken in their literal sense, mean wild chase; but it is a phrase tantamount to mad-cap, or a wild, hair-brained young fellow. Wild Youth is well enough, but a Comedy for Digestion sounds oddly in our ears, and is somewhat equivocal in its meaning. In the preface to the former translation* of Mr. S. it was said, that this piece was in- tended only for a Christmas-day, and he might easily be led to adopt the other part of the title. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03225.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03236.xml THIS is a plain, serious, and sensible discourse. Among the numerous publications which have been made on the same sub- ject, it does not rank very high. Still, however, we do not think it falls below mediocrity. Dr. Os- good's mode of depicting General Washington's character, though not very discriminating or new, has little of that affectation and extra- vagance which we have too often seen displayed. On the whole, he treats the character, and the dispen- sation of Providence, on which his discourse is founded, in a manner becoming a minister of religion, who, while he gives due praise to the creature, ascribes all the glory ultimately to the Creator. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-03236.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04289.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04289.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04296.xml THIS animal, hitherto a non- descript, unless we suppose it to be similar to that described by Mr. Jefferson, is thus pourtrayed by Mr. H. from intelligence col- lected among the Indians. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04296.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04302.xml THIS performance begins with a very spirited exordium. It is brief, and a transition is easily and gracefully made to an enume- ration of the great events of Wash- ington's life. This method is strictly natural, and has therefore been adopted by every eulogist whom we have seen. A critical observer will be instructed and amused by marking the various combinations of words and associa- tions of images produced, by the same events, in different minds; and, as human excellence is merely comparative, there hence arises a criterion by which the merit of the several orators may be weighed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04302.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04304.xml THIS address is remarkably characterized by simplicity and seriousness. It is of a mild and equable tenor. It abounds with proofs of clear judgment, and is free from all extravagance, or af- fectation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04304.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04305.xml “GREAT God! we adore thy sovereign providence, which hath smitten the father of his country, and left a nation in tears!” Such is the exordium of this oration, which pursues to the end, though with somewhat diminished vehe- mence, the same strain of glowing eloquence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04305.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04307.xml THE design of this writer is to borrow the phrases and images of the Scotish Bard, and ap- ply them to Washington. The propriety of this design is a consi- deration very different from that of the success with which it is executed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04307.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04309.xml WHEN the death of Wash- ington had awakened every sympathetic feeling, and roused every faculty of the orator to do justice to his character, and render homage to his memory, it was not to be expected that the poet would slumber in silence, or his lyre be unstrung. But the effusions of the latter have been extremely rare. Thousands may, from education and habit, deem themselves quali- fied to discharge the functions of an orator or eulogist on this occa- sion, but those of the poet are more arduous, and demand those splendid endowments, those divine energies which belong only to the few. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04309.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05347.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05347.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05352.xml FEW of the orations which have commemorated the death of Washington can be quoted in comparison with this. The strain of eloquence is more unaffectedly impassioned, more correctly figura- tive, more temperately encomiastic, than commonly is met with. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05352.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05353.xml THE usual detail of the inci- dents of Washington's life, his public and his private virtues, is given in this discourse. The narrative is not enlivened by many sparks of eloquence. The writer observes that “the sublimest eulo- gy of Washington consists in a faithful history of his life, and an impartial delineation of his public and private virtues;” and every reader will probably comply with his request to be forgiven, “if, in the sketch of his history and cha- racter, a strong affection for the man should appear, blended with a reverence for his talents.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05353.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05354.xml “Americans! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05354.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05355.xml OF a character far different from the performance noticed in the preceding article, is the one now before us. We turn with pleasure from a fabric gaudy, tasteless, and frail, to the contemplation of one where the proportion, beauty, and strength of a Grecian structure are displayed. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05355.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363a.xml THE text of this discourse is taken from Isaiah iii. 1, 2, 3. Behold! the Lord of hosts doth take away the mighty man, and the man of war, the prudent, and the ancient, the honourable man, and the counsellor. The principal object of Mr. H. is to apply the various epithets and characteristics mentioned in this passage of holy writ, to the late father of our country, to shew that he was a mighty man—a man of war—prudent—ancient—honourable, —and a counsellor. We see little to commend, or to censure, either in the plan or execution of this sermon. Mr. H. tells us nothing of Washington but what is fami- liarly known. He places no part of his wonderful character in a new, or peculiarly interesting light. His praise is all of the common kind, and expressed in the common way. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363a.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363b.xml THIS sermom is chiefly remark- able for two things, its brevi- ty, and its modesty. Mr. S. nei- ther fatigues by tediousness, nor nauseates by indulging in fulsome or extravagant strains. Too many of General Washington's eulogists seem to have supposed, that the more frequently they mentioned his name, and the more rhapsodical and bombastic the style of their praise, the more fully they attained the desired end. Mr. S. has taken a different method. He describes a great and a good character in the abstract. In this description, which is pretty well drawn, though the talents and virtues of our departed hero are obviously kept in view, yet there is no direct reference to them. Toward the close, Mr. S. gives vent to his feelings in the fol- lowing language: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05363b.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05365.xml IN the dedication of this play, we are informed that it owes its origin to the “commands” of a fe- male friend of the author, who was present with him at the representa- tion of Nauman's opera of Cora, and suggested it as a subject for a drama. The author, obedient to the gentle mandate of the fair critic, soon after introduced to her “The Virgin of the Sun.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-05365.xml Thu, 01 May 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06424.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06424.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06429.xml “AND in thine hand it is to make great.” This is the text, branched out into numerous dis- tinctions, and judiciously applied to the merits of the great deceased, which forms the basis of this per- formance. The usual sources of greatness, in birth, property, and talents; in fit adjustment of occa- sions; in the reverence of mankind; and in moral excellence or sanctity; are concisely displayed; and a transition is made to Washington, in whom the principal sources of greatness were, in a remarkable de- gree, combined. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06429.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06431.xml THIS discourse is remarkably different from most of those that have issued from the pulpit and the press on the same occasion. All fervour, and impetuosity of conception and language, seem to have been studiously avoided. There is the calmness and circum- spection of the analist in his closet, who desires to convince us, by slowly and accurately adjusting the balance, and taking a numerical account of how much one scale outweighs the other, rather than the bold career of eloquence, that aims to hurry us away without delibera- tion and in spite of our reluctance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06431.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07047.xml THIS pamphlet exhibits a view of the proceedings of the University of Cambridge, in Massa- chusetts, “in solemn and pious commemoration of the singular talents, eminent virtues, and unpa- ralleled services of General Wash- ington.” So far as we have been informed, or can now recollect, this University has the honour of be- ing the only one in the United States, which, as a Seminary of learning, has joined in the public expression of mourning, so gene- rally and fervently offered to the memory of the departed chief of America. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07047.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07051.xml WE presume the most of our readers recollect the passage in Mr. Jefferson's “Notes on Vir- ginia,” which this pamphlet is de- signed to elucidate and defend. Some philosophers of Europe had advanced an opinion, that there is something in the soil, climate, and other circumstances of America, which occasions animal nature to degenerate. They extended this opinion to the men as well as to the brutal tribes of our western world. Mr. Jefferson, in the above-men- tioned work, thought proper to examine and controvert a theory, which he considered “so unfound- ed and degrading to one third of the globe;” and among other proofs adduced in opposition to it, he men- tions the speech of Logan, an Indian chief, ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07051.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07056.xml THAT author is much to be envied who not only derives self-gratification from the exercise of his pen in the recesses of study, but enjoys the sweet satisfaction of hearing hundreds acknowledge, that they have received pleasure and instruction from the composi- tions of his genius. But it seems there are some writers so careless, or rather so diffident of acquiring literary renown, that they are con- tented with the retired and sponta- neous exercise of their faculties, without exposing themselves to the inquisition of criticism, by coming forward as candidates for public ap- plause: and that man may surely be deemed fortunate, who possesses the art of amusing his leisure with the elegant occupations of taste and li- terature, without toiling to promote the entertainment of others. The author of the work before us appears to have been a character of the last description, for he tells us in his preface, that he wrote for his own amusement and improvement,— but his friends, it seems, reque... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07056.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07058.xml “I Have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,” (2 Tim. iv. 7.) is the text prefixed to this discourse. After some very pertinent and judicious observations on the interesting spectacle of pub- lic mourning for the death of Wash- ington, and the presage of future virtue and patriotism, which this spirit of national gratitude and ad- miration for his eminent talents and services affords, Dr. M. proceeds to consider the character of the illus- trious deceased in three points of view—as a military commander— as the first civil magistrate—and as a private citizen. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07058.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08120.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08120.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08131.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08131.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141a.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141a.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141b.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08141b.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143a.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143a.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143b.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143b.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143c.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143c.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143d.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08143d.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08144.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08144.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09202.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09202.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09206.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09206.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09207.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09207.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09208.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09208.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09209a.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09209a.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09209b.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09209b.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10266.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10266.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10269.xml THE present state of our coun- try exhibits a very uncom- mon spectacle. We do not recol- lect a parallel instance in the his- tory of the world. In modern times, religion has always been of greatest moment in discussing the merits of the heirs or claimants of government; but formerly, the doubt lay between different sects or forms of religion. Now, in the gradual progress of events by which the moral structure of society is per- petually changing, we have come, not to inquire whether the candi- date adheres to the Pope or to Lu- ther, whether he is Christian or Mahometan, but whether he is a believer in God or not. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10269.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10272a.xml IN very humble language, and in a style by no means classical, Mr. Spring delivers a number of common-place remarks, which, of course, neither interest the mind, nor seem quite commensurate with the dignity of the subject. All this, however, may have been deemed tolerably good within the precincts of his pulpit; but the author, when he was committing his production to the wild wing of the press, should have relfected that it might chance to fall among those who are strang- ers to his intrinsic merit, and who, regarding this discourse as the stand- ard of his talents, might draw con- clusions unfavourable to his reputa- tion as a writer. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10272a.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10272b.xml OUR praise of these two dis- courses (if praise it may be called) is of the negative kind. They are not tedious, for both to- gether make but about twenty-six short pages. They do not offend the understanding by any extrava- gancies of fancy, nor make any vio- lent efforts at lofty conceptions. The style is in no way so crude as to betray an unpractised pen, nor the remarks so common as to be totally uninteresting. On so great a theme, however, one naturally expects from an orator something superior to either of the present compositions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10272b.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10273a.xml A SENSIBLE and well written discourse, but not calculated “to wake the soul by tender strokes of art,” or to elevate the mind to the grandeur of the subject. It pos- sesses, however, some warmth with- out vehemence; and, although not adorned with the flowers of rheto- ric, is tolerably well furnished with the embellishments of style. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10273a.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10273b.xml NEAT language, and a correct arrangement of sentences, ap- pear to be the principal characteris- tics of this composition. The style, however, seems to want that grace- ful simplicity and venerable air, so highly becoming on an occasion solemn and affecting. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10273b.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11349.xml THIS is the volume which we announced to our readers in the Magazine for September last, as having been published a few weeks before. A more careful perusal of it has convinced us that it deserves, what we then intimated an inten- tion of giving it, a more detailed and ample consideration. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11349.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11354.xml WE are here presented with a third pleading, before the bar of christianity, against the claims of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency of the United States. When political are combined with religious motives, they tend powerfully to excite the zeal and sharpen the ingenuity of the advocates. The present pleader appears in the unprofessional garb of a layman; and his mode of con- ducting his cause differs much, both in argument and illustration, from the two coadjutors who have pre- ceded him in the same cause. He disdains to produce books written by the accused, or witnesses who have heard his declarations, to prove that he is not a christian. He en- trenches himself behind the bold assertion that the infidelity, and even atheism of Mr. Jefferson are notorious, and believed by every man who has heard any thing of him, as well as by his warmest friends and most zealous advocates. As there is no small portion of novelty, ingenuity, and spirit in this br... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11354.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT