http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1799;f2-subject%3Dreview Results for your query: f1-date=1799;f2-subject=review Wed, 14 Jan 2009 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=1799-05130.xml The subject of this book, and the name of the writer, will not fail to excite attention in Ame- rican readers. The history of our native country will always deserve to be of chief moment in our eyes; and the discussion of this subject by the most eloquent historian of modern times, cannot fail to afford us uncommon gratification. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-05130.xml Fri, 01 May 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=1799-05127.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=1799-05132.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=1799-05117.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=1799-05134.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=1799-05124.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=1799-05135.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=1799-05128.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=1799-06229.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=1799-05129.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=1799-07293.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=1799-06216.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-06216.xml Mon, 01 Jun 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=1799-12449.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=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=1799-08369.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=1799-12442.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=1799-06217.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