http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1800 Results for your query: f1-date=1800 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 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=1800-10265.xml [The Editor is ever ready to lis- ten to the remarks of his friends and correspondents, and to profit by their advice in his exertions to please and benefit those who honour his work with a perusal. His scheme, as first announced, is very com- prehensive, adapted as well to the moralist as the philosopher, critic, physician, and divine. Literature and science have a strong connec- tion with morality: and, although the Editor is not less sensible than A. Z. of the superior importance of those performances which have im- mediate relation to the latter, he cannot but think that a plan which comprehends other branches of knowledge, will be approved by the majority of readers. His design is to render his work as extensively use- ful as possible; to furnish a re- spectable vehicle for all those who have leisure and inclination to write, to convey their thoughts to the public. The department of morals is not limited; and it depends on the number and zeal of his corres- pondents whether it shall conta... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10265.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 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=1800-01060.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-01060.xml Wed, 01 Jan 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=1800-01061.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=1800-07051.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=1800-02139.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=1800-01047.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=1800-07056.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=1800-02120.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=1800-08120.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=1800-11378a.xml IT was to be expected that the publication of Mr. Hamilton would call forth the replies and animadversions of his friends and foes, political and personal, as well as of those of Mr. Adams. The present “Answer” appears to be dictated by a spirit not entitled to respect, for its regard either to can- dour, impartiality, or truth. Mr. H. is charged as being governed by the most depraved and boundless ambition, and the meanest and most pernicious passions. The mind of a candid reader, on either side of the great political question which now agitates the public, can feel little pleasure in the extravagant effusions of pure party spirit. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11378a.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11378b.xml THIS pamphlet has little to re- commend it as a political or literary performance. The author confesses his inability to contend, as a writer, with General Hamilton, whom he is pleased to style the “Atlas of composition.” We con- cur with him in the judgment he has formed of his own powers; and, though we do not think the gentleman with whom he feels dis- posed to measure lances, an Atlas, yet, in such a contest, the present writer appears a pigmy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11378b.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11379a.xml THIS performance is a proof of the author's political zeal, but has no claim to merit, either for argument or language. Opinion is opposed to opinion, and conjec- ture to conjecture. Reports, sug- gestions, and suspicions, as to the possible or probable motives of poli- tical writers, can have little weight with the earnest inquirer after truth. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11379a.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11379b.xml THE letter of General Hamil- ton does not appear to us un- answerable; and we are surprised that no one, of competent abilities and information, has yet replied in a manner worthy the subject. The controversy, however, is in many respects of a disagreeable kind, in- volving many considerations of a personal and delicate nature. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11379b.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12420.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12420.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12426.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12426.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12433.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12433.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12441.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12441.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12447.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12447.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12453.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12453.xml Mon, 01 Dec 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=1800-01055.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=1800-02115.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=1800-02108.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=1800-02122.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=1800-08131.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=1800-02125.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=1800-08141a.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=1800-02128.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=1800-03217.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=1800-08143d.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=1800-05363a.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=1800-11349.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 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11362.xml OF all modes ever devised or practised, for exercising that censorial power which is deemed es- sential to the preservation of a free government, that of a free press is the most formidable and efficacious. It is a power, which, in the hands of genius and virtue, and guided by a sacred regard for truth, becomes irresistible in its effects, and tre- mendous to the magistrate against whom it is directed. In propor- tion to the magnitude of this power is the danger of its abuse, and the necessity of that wisdom and dis- cretion which should preside over and controul its operations. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11362.xml Sat, 01 Nov 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=1800-11377.xml SO many performances, on this melancholy occasion, have pass- ed in review before us, that we hope to be excused from bestowing any particular attention on those which remain, unless they possess either novelty of matter or manner, or some distinguished attributes of eloquence that may claim the atten- tion of our readers. The two here offered to our notice contain the same succession of incidents in the life of the American patriot which have so often been repeated; and possess no qualities of style that distinguish them above others of the same class, or to entitle them to a more critical examination. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11377.xml Sat, 01 Nov 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=1800-08141b.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=1800-02131.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=1800-08143a.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=1800-03208.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=1800-08143b.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=1800-03213.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=1800-03219.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=1800-08144.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=1800-03221.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=1800-09202.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=1800-04302.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=1800-09209a.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=1800-03225.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=1800-09206.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=1800-04289.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=1800-09207.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=1800-04296.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=1800-09209b.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=1800-04304.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=1800-10266.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=1800-10273b.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=1800-05355.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=1800-05352.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=1800-10269.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=1800-05353.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=1800-10272a.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=1800-05354.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=1800-09000.xml Here ended the narrative of Mervyn. Surely its in- cidents were of no common kind. During this season of pestilence, my opportunities of observation had been numerous, and I had not suffered them to pass unim- proved. The occurrences which fell within my own experience bore a general resemblance to those which had just been related, but they did not hinder the latter from striking on my mind with all the force of novelty. They served no end, but as vouchers for the truth of the tale. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-09000.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12480.xml “CANDIDUS” was received too late to appear in this Number. The great length of his quotations is some objection to the insertion of his communication. If they could be curtailed, or a reference be made to the pages of the printed volume, it would be more agreeable to the generality of readers. The change, however, which is about to take place in this publication, may induce Candidus to seek some other vehicle for a speedier publication, unless content to wait the appearance of the next Review. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-12480.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-00000.xml The task of relating the last events in the life of my beloved master, has fallen upon me. His last words reminded me of the obligation, which I had long since assumed, of conveying to his Atticus a faithful account of his death. Having performed this task, life will cease to be any longer of value. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-00000.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02096.xml Sir, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02096.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06402.xml I WENT lately into the company of two persons, whom I will call Tom and Harry, talking very loudly upon politics. The debate, as usual, had proceeded from argu- ment to sarcasm, and from raillery to railing, and went on somewhat in this style: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06402.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xml HISTORY and romance are terms that have never been very clearly distinguished from each other. It should seem that one dealt in fiction, and the other in truth; that one is a picture of the probable and certain, and the other a tissue of untruths; that one de- scribes what might have happened, and what has actually happened, and the other what never had exist- ance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-04251.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xml IS there any difference between the words felicity and happiness? If any difference there be, it must, methinks, be of a very delicate and subtile nature. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07013.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xml THESE words have differences that are not easily discovered or defined. I offer you my opi- nion on those differences with no great confidence; but I am a great friend to inquiries of this nature; and as some of your readers appear to resemble me in this respect, I am willing to throw my mite into the common fund of instructive entertainment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08096.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11339.xml [☞ A sincere desire that ample justice should be done to the merits of every author, has induced us to insert the foregoing letter, which, as it concerns a subject interesting to science, and, indirectly, to sound criticism and literature, will, we hope, notwithstanding its length, be favourably received by our readers. We shall always be hap- py to have our decisions rectified when they are wrong; for, as men and individuals, we have neither the vanity or folly to suppose that our judgments are infallible.—In matters of taste and criticism, as well as of morality and history, we have not yet discovered any mode by which the truth of our opinions could be demonstrated.—To the ma- thematical and physical sciences, belongs that demonstrative power which at once unfolds the truth and removes all doubt and uncertainty; but, concerning those things about which wiser, older, and more learned men have differed in opinion, a reviewer may be allowed to doubt. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-11339.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xml BELIEVE me, Mary, that to the security of matrimonial felicity, no quality is more necessa- ry than candour. All reserve, ob- scurity, or disguise, are produc- tive of indifference, suspicion, or distrust. Let my example con- vince you of the necessity of per- fect candour, and unbounded con- fidence in the conjugal union. There should exist such an unity of interest that every pleasure or pain should be common, and all separate enjoy- ment or suffering is an injury to its sacred rights. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-06409.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10247.xml I SHOULD not write to you, at present, my friend, but be- cause I have some leisure, and be- cause I have something to write about which may possibly amuse you. I know your disposition, and would willingly assist you in your favourite pursuits. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10247.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10242.xml THERE are few persons of a literary life and conversation of whom the inquiry has not been made, Do you prefer rhyme to blank verse in English poetry? The true answer, the species of ver- sification to which our preference is due, may be easily decided. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10242.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10243.xml THESE words are seldom con- founded in discourse; but it is still more seldom that any clear conceptions are possessed of their precise and respective significations. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-10243.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xml LET me thank you, my belov- ed friend, with tears of true pleasure, for this letter. How happy am I in your love and confidence! How zealous shall I be, and how proud to deserve it! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-07037.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xml EVERY event has some good effects mingled with its evil ones. This is eminetly true with respect to the death of Washington. I condole with my fellow citizens in general, on the loss which they have sustained in the death of one, who, in every political exigence, would have exerted himself for the common safety, with more likeli- hood of success, with greater puri- ty of motives, with more foresight and caution, and with a larger por- tion of the general confidence, than any other man living. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-02102.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08081.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-08081.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-MM010.xml Jessy fragment 1 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-MM010.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT