http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3Danecdote Results for your query: expand=subject;f1-subject=anecdote Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377b.xml General Lee was remarkably slovenly in his dress and manners; and has often by the meanness of his appearance, been subject to ridicule and insult. He was once attending general Washington to a place dis- tant from the camp….Riding on, he arrived at the house where they were to dine, sometime before the rest of the company. He went di- rectly to the kitchen demanding something to eat; when the cook, taking him for a servant, told him she would give him some victuals in a moment….but he must help her off with the pot. This he complied with and sat down to some cold meat which she placed before him on the dresser. The girl was remarkably inquisitive about the guests who were coming, particularly of Lee, who she said she heard was one of the oddest and ugliest men in the world. In a few moments she desired the general again to assist her in plac- ing on the pot, and scarcely had he finished, when she requested him to * This city is in long. W. from Phi- ladelphia 29° N. lat.... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-02377b.xml Wed, 01 Feb 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10530.xml A HOLLAND merchant, travel- ling in a diligence in France, after bearing patiently the loquacity of several companions for some time, at length desired them to desist from interrupting the ride by their conversation. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10530.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Sir Benjamin employed the four first years of his abode at Mu- nich in acquiring the political and statistical knowledge necessary for realizing the plans which his phi- lanthropy suggested to him for im- proving the condition of the lower orders. He did not neglect in the meantime his favourite studies and it was in the year 1786, in a jour- ney to Manheim, that he made his first experiments on heat. Politi- cal and literary honours poured in upon him during that interval. In 1785 he was made Chamberlain of the Elector, and admitted a mem- ber of the academies of science of Munich and Manheim. In 1786 he received from the King of Poland the order of St. Stanislaus; in 1787 he made a journey to Prussia, dur- ing which he was elected a member of the academy of Berlin. In 1788 he was appointed major-general of cavalry and privy counsellor of state. He was placed at the head of the war department, and parti- cularly charged with the execution of the plans which he had proposed for improving the ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04076.xml Kotzebue, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-04076.xml Wed, 01 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06401.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06401.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-08117.xml NO poet has attained so much eminence, in his native country, and even beyond its precincts, as Wie- land. English readers, indeed, must be satisfied with such a knowledge of him, imperfect as it is, as trans- lation affords; but luckily for Wie- land's glory, the version of Oberon into English is at least equal to the original. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-08117.xml Thu, 01 Aug 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10547.xml On the 17th July was celebrated at Verona the beatification of sister Vermique Giuliana, late superior of the convent of capuchins of St. Claire. The miracles performed by this female saint are, according to the legend of the faithful, very numerous, and amount to upwards of 300. Lately, the wife of a wine- merchant, whose favourite saint she always had been, experienced the effects of her prayers and presents, by being delivered at once of three strong healthy boys, after a mar- riage of 18 years, during which she never before had a child. Her hus- band, in gratitude, has presented this saint with a rich diamond cross; and there is not a wife or a husband in that part of Italy, who desire the sterility of their beds to cease, who does not address prayers and offer sacrifices to her shrine. It is said that three convents, possessing for a long time saints famous for the same qualities, intend to bring suits at Rome against this member of the Paradise, as an intruder or interlo- per, their convents being entir... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10547.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-05366.xml OF the lives of men who have been celebrated in any art or sci- ence, who have rendered them- selves famous by the eminence of their genius, or the extent of their learning, it is a laudable curiosity to desire to be accurately and mi- nutely informed. We are anxious to follow them from their cradle— to watch the progress of their minds—to trace them from the first dawnings of their genius— from the inexperience of infancy, to the fulness and maturity of their manhood. The object of the present sketch has not indeed reach- ed the latter period, but he alrea- dy occupies so large a space in the public eye, and the eminence he has reached at the early age of thir- teen, is so much higher than most of those of the maturest manhood. have been able to attain by the la- bour and study of years, that our readers, we are sure, will thank us for the following particulars, ex- tracted from Mr. Merritt's well written biographical sketch of his life. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-05366.xml Fri, 01 May 1807 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-09208.xml MISS HANNAH MORE, whose works have been so much talked of, and so much read, has lately as- sumed the arduous office of instruct- ing the heiress apparent of Great Britain, in a work just published on the education of a princess. The fol- lowing specimens of her talents are taken from this work, and will be acceptable not only to that lady's numerous admirers in America, but to every sagacious reader. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-09208.xml Sun, 01 Sep 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248a.xml IT is well known that the votaries of the Roman religion deem them- selves in possession of every thing belonging to the person, family, and household of the Saviour. Every article of his clothing and lodging, the house in which he was born, the cup out of which is infancy was fed, and even drops, or rather quarts, of his blood, are preserved in Euro- pean churches. As curious a relio as any, however, was la chemise de la vierge, which was preserved, in the city of Chartres, in the ninth century. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-07248a.xml Sun, 01 Jul 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10546.xml THE following incidents will amuse the observer of national man- ners, and of the delicate links by which the destinies of men hang to- gether. The female racer will as- tonish those who form their judg- ments of foreign manners by their own. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-10546.xml Mon, 01 Oct 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02085.xml A YOUNG lady being called up- on for a Latin motto to a wedding- ring, gave.... Felices nuptæ! moriar ni nubere dulce est. which may be rendered into humble English thus.... Let me die if I don't think it a fine thing to be married. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-02085.xml Fri, 01 Feb 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05336.xml AT one of the Edinburgh medi- cal societies, which are principally composed of students, they debated once more an old question, whether opium is a stimulant? Much sophis- try and much ingenuity were dis- played as usual by several juvenile orators, but without arriving much nearer the truth than they were be- fore. The question was several times new modelled in the course of discussion; at length it was asked, are there not specific stimulants? do all act in the same manner? has wine, for example, the same effect upon the human body as spirits, Peru- vian bark, &c? A student, fonder of good wine than of the abstruse study of physic, was stimulated with the very name of wine, though he was silent all the evening before. “Dif- ference!” said he; “ay that there is, a vast deal of difference in stimu- lants; ay, even in different kinds of spirituous liquors. Now I cannot, at present, talk to you about irrita- bility, and nervous fluid, and all that kin... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05336.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06175.xml BEND a favourable ear, O Lord, to all our prayers; but grant only those of our prayers which thou knowest will be serviceable to us. Have compassion on the errors and blindness of these my brethren, and let not any thought of their hearts be gratified, for all the good things they ask for would prove unto them vanity and vexation of spirit. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-06175.xml Fri, 01 Jun 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04277.xml ONE of the most general and in- teresting subjects of curiosity and discussion, in England, at present, next to the menaced invasion, ap- pears to be the character and me- rits of a player, by name William Henry Betty, but who is more com- monly known by the name of Young Roscius. This title will sufficiently explain the popular opinion of his merit. The press has teemed with publications respecting him, and the ingenuity of biographers and mana- gers has contrived to extract from his affairs the materials of a heavy con- troversy, in which, however, we, in America, have no interest. Whe- ther we shall ever be favoured by a sight of this miracle of talents on this side the ocean is a doubtful point. Unless we go, or unless he comes, immediately, we shall miss the surprising spectacle. The ac- complishments of Betty, at the age of twelve or fourteen, are truly pro- digious; but the prodigy will disap- pear with that age. Betty, at the age of twenty-five or thirty, what- ever his ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-04277.xml Mon, 01 Apr 1805 12:00:00 GMT