http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?expand%3Dsubject;f1-date%3D1792;f2-subject%3Dletter%20transcript Results for your query: expand=subject;f1-date=1792;f2-subject=letter transcript Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml "What, my friend, art thou certainly awake? Or is it that I am dreaming? No, I believe you incapable of adulation: and yet there are some parts of your acceptable epistle, which are ex- tremely suspicious. But your motives do not only excuse, but justify you; when a friend is sinking into a quicksand or strug- gling with a suffocating stream, there is nothing can betide him which is so dangerous as despair; and one, who, though near at hand, is unable to afford him any personal assistance, cannot be more serviceable to him, than by cherishing his hopes, and keep- ing him from yielding to despair; and if in the ardour of our exhortations, and the precipitancy of our zeal, we chance to de- viate from rigid truth, and facilitate his escape, by invigorating his efforts with flattering representations of his power, and delu- ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Why is my inclination not attended with ability? Why do I find myself disposed to write without experiencing that rigor of conviction and facility of utterance of which I have at other times been sensible? Unseasonable langors take possession of me. Joyless slumbers weigh down my eye-lids. Not even the idea of my beloved friend, for whom, notwithstanding an impatient and capricious disposition, I entertain the most ardent and sincere affection, of which my heart is at this waning era of my existence susceptible, can banish this oppressive listlessness and rouse me into watchfulness or activity. What expe- dient shall I practice to restore me to the empire of my thoughts? How the curtain of each eye gradually falls, how the objects vanish by degrees "remote and small"! My pen moves with difficulty through the line. Each l... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml "I have read your letter. It is short. I wish to answer it with equal brevity. (Have I not reason to suppose that long letters from me, if they ever were, have now ceased to be acceptable?) But a brief answer is impossible; excuse therefore my prolixi- ty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml I have, this moment, received my friend’s letter. I suppose I ought to have gone to the packet. It may not be usual to leave letters at the houses of those to whom they were directed. If you purpose to maintain a regular corrspondnce, you shall never have reason to charge me with indolence or negligence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml "Why, my friend, is there so wide an interval between the writing and the reception of your letters? That which I receiv- ed last evening, is dated November 4, and was delivered to me by a person who, passing through Trenton, saw it at a ta- vern, and made himself, through mere politeness, the bearer of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml I received a letter from you yesterday, in which you kindly express the doubts and apprehensions which the failure of your former letter produced. That it failed was, I now perceive, the fault of neither of us. There ought to be some fixed and settled method of conveyance between us or we shall both of us be in perpetual uncertainty. I have hitherto sent my letters by the Trenton stage boat, and not knowing that there was any more expeditious or convenient method. You would acquit me of all blame, if you knew how often, since I despatched my last, I have called at this boat in expectation of receiving an answer, nor was your supposed silence less productive of uneasiness to me than, as you kindly assure me, my seeming neglect was to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT