http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1798%3A%3A03 Results for your query: f1-date=1798::03 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03228.xml [In our last number notice was given of a New Work of Invention and Reflection, which is ready to be offered to public patronage. The nature of its design, the singularity of its title, the circumstance of its being written by a native citizen of Philadelphia, and of its being on the point of soliciting the encourage- ment of the public, have induced us, for the satisfaction of our readers, to solicit, from the author, the privilege of making an extract from his manuscript. Although unable to fix on any part capable of conveying a perfect idea of the whole, we trust the following may serve as a specimen of the work.] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03228.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml MISS De Moivre did not fail to remind me of my promise when I next saw her. I repeated that the task which she assigned to me, was arduous. It was perhaps impossible to say what species of employment was most beneficial. Some might be mentioned from which unquestionable benefits would flow. It is worthy of a rational being to weigh with scru- pulous exactness; to chuse that only which is intrinsically preferable. This, however, is your own province, not mine. I will point out one method, and state the recommendations that belong to it. Judge you whether it outgoes in excellence all others. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03257.xml Tue, 31 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml BAXTER, after taking some re- freshment, retired to rest. In no long time, however, he was awakened by his wife, who desired him to notice a certain glimmering on the ceiling. It seemed the feeble and flitting ray of a distant and moving light, coming through the window. It did not proceed from the street, for the cham- ber was lighted from the side, and not from the front of the house. A lamp borne by a passenger, or the attendants of an hearse, could not be discovered in this situation. Besides, in the latter case, it would be accom- panied by the sound of the vehicle, and, probably, by weeping and ex- clamations of despair. His employ- ment, as the guardian of property, naturally suggested to him the idea of robbery. He started from his bed, and went to the window. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03133.xml Tue, 03 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml PAGES have been filled with ideas suggested by a broom-stick. I have a volume, under that title, in my possession. The writer follows the train of ideas suggested by the sight of this useful instrument, and is led by it on many an instructive and amusing ramble. His speculations, indeed, are bound together by no other affinity than this. It is curious to observe what various and momen- tous themes take their rise in his un- derstanding, from this humble source. He first discusses the nature of that principle, by which the sight of a broom-stick is made productive of a series of thoughts in the mind. In the course of this speculation he raises a scheme of his own on the ruins of that system which changes man into a pair of bag-pipes, and makes out the contexture of his body to be nothing more than a congeries of fiddle-strings. He endeavours to prove, that the hand is lifted and planets impelled by the same power, and that this power is thought. Having settled this point, he proceeds to describe the thoughts t... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03167.xml Tue, 10 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml I AM disappointed, though the cha- grin of disappointment has perhaps been justly incurred by me, since my expectations were set on irrational foundations. I have opened, and find —nothing! I will take, however, a child's vengeance on the cause of my vexation. I will hew the chest to pieces, and convert the fragments into fuel. Henceforth it shall be my busi- ness to forget it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03193.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml WELL, old as I am, I find I am reserved for an extraordinary fate. “Nil desperandum” was ever my motto; and yet, in the present case, I suffered appearances to snatch it from me. For a time, I thought my search was at an end—that the trunk was useless for any purpose but that of kindling a blaze. When black Will came to cut my wood, I desired my good woman to bring me up his axe for three minutes, and I proceeded to break up the chest. It is nothing, thought I, but useless lumber. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03225.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03202.xml virgil. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03202.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03198.xml I CALLED, last evening on Mrs. Carter. I had no previous ac- quaintance with her. Her brother is a man of letters, who, nevertheless, finds little leisure from the engage- ments of a toilsome profession. He scarcely spends an evening at home, yet takes care to invite, specially and generally to his house, every one who enjoys the reputation of learning and probity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03198.xml Tue, 17 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03231.xml I SHALL not stop to describe the company, or to dwell on those embarrassments and awkwardnesses always incident to an unpolished wight like me. Suffice it to say, that I was, in a few minutes, respectfully withdrawn into a corner, and, fortu- nately, a near neighbour of the lady. To her, after much deliberation and forethought, I addressed myself thus: “Pray, Madam, are you a fœde- ralist?” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03231.xml Tue, 24 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03271.xml IT is evident, continued my compa- nion, that for some reason or other, the liberal professions, those which re- quire most vigour of mind, greatest ex- tent of knowledge, and most commerce with books and with enlightened so- ciety, are occupied only by men. If contrary instances occur, they are rare, and must be considered as ex- ceptions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-03271.xml Tue, 31 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT