http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1806 Results for your query: f1-date=1806 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09219.xml SOME ardent lovers of their country are extremely offended with Moore, the Anacreontic poet, for speaking contemptuously of Ameri- ca, in his poems, lately published. It appears to me that we cannot in- jure our own credit and debase our own dignity more than by allowing the smallest regard to such provo- cations. It is indeed imputing a hundred times more importance to the random censures of ignorant, self-conceited, and vagabond travel- ers than they deserve. As to Moore, in particular, I never heard of any merit he possessed beyond that of a writer of drinking songs and love ditties. Even his warmest admirers say no more of him, than that he drinks genteelly, plays well on the piano-forte, and writes very fine verses, and sings his own ver- ses scientifically. Whatever dignity some may annex to these various ac- complishments, they certainly do not imply any great capacity for impartially surveying the manners of a nation; and, instead of being greatly hurt that such a man should see nothing in America to... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09219.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12420.xml THE usefulness of theatres is a question that has often been discuss- ed, but, perhaps, never in a manner perfectly satisfactory. Subjects of this kind are very complex, and the foundation of our reasonings lies much deeper than is commonly sup- posed. The question may be stated in the compass of a page, but could not be thoroughly discussed in less than a volume. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12420.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11393.xml HOW much are booksellers in- debted to that numerous tribe of virtuosos who buy books, not to read them, but to place them in agreea- ble order on a shelf or in a book- case! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11393.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08099.xml MANY of my readers have proba- bly laughed more than once over the following exquisite specimen of witty satire. Is an apology necessary for presenting it once more to the view of such readers? Will they not consent to read it once more, and read it with nearly as much satis- faction as at first? True wit, like pure gold, never loses its intrinsic value by any lapse of time or fre- quency of circulation. As long as it is intelligible, it is precious; and, with respect to the following effusion, the reference tacitly made to Bos- wells memorable Life of Johnson can escape but few readers. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08099.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11394.xml THE difficulties that attend the comprehension of the classical Ro- man writers are totally unknown to common readers. They go on ren- dering English word for Latin word, and imagine that they understand the poet because they find an English counterpart for his Latin phrase or sentence: whereas their crude and uninformed minds collect no congru- ous ideas from the page. When they attempt to step from sounds to things, they leap into a chaos which furnishes no footing, no track, no guide. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11394.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07033b.xml I HAVE been very much amused with reading the Memoirs of Cum- berland, a work lately published, and containing many valuable anec- dotes of persons and books that have attracted much of the notice of the world. The author has not acquired much fame, except on account of a few popular comedies. Few writers, indeed, have been so voluminous, and at the same time have written so little that is likely to last longer than himself. He has been an epic, tragic, and comic poet; but his sin- gle epic, and his many tragedies, have been read by few, and by no- body twice; and only three or four, among a score or two of his come- dies, are of sterling merit or durable reputation. The most interesting parts of these memoirs are those which relate to other people. When he speaks only of himself, he has little to say that is worth hearing for its own sake, and that little does not-acquire much additional im- portance by any peculiar felicity in his mode of saying it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07033b.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01057b.xml REYNOLDS, as an author, in fe- cundity and success, seems to be the only British competitor of the Ger- man Kotzebue. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01057b.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12471.xml THIS elegant and substantial structure is now completed, and was opened for public use on Tuesday the fourteenth day of October, 1806; and such was the attraction of the occasion, that the company receiv- ed, on that day, tolls for eight hun- dred and fifty-five foot passages over the bridge. On the day preceding, though the bridge was not yet open for general use, a drove of more than 150 mules were permitted to pass over it, and by that indulgence were saved the delay of several hours, which must necessarily have been consumed in crossing the river by the ferry boats. Independent of the vast accommodation this bridge has added to the ordinary commu- nication of the neighbourhood, in which respect the effect is already manifested by the great increase of the intercourse with the borough; it is certain, that so important a facility will draw exclusively to this point the numerous travellers, who, with their families, teams, and cat- tle, are daily emigrating from the eastern states to the western and north-we... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12471.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03219.xml A TOUR in the United States has lately been published in Europe, written by Richard Parkinson, a practical farmer, who lately spent three years among us. If a native reader derives no instruction from the wisdom of this, he will at least be amused with its follies and mis- takes. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03219.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05383.xml PHILADELPHIA is noted for its manufactory of bricks. The annual erection of brick buildings in this city is immense, and both the build- er and inhabitant of a house are materially interested in the quality and goodness of the material of which these buildings are formed. The following remarks may prove emmently serviceable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05383.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11367.xml A JUST view of the character of Dr. Franklin has probably never been given by any of his country- men. While living, the world was divided into passionate friends and rancorous enemies, and since his death a kind of political tincture still adheres to all our sentiments con- cerning him. Among his own coun- trymen, prejudice and passion, which used to be enlisted wholly on his side, has, in some respects, become hostile to him, and an impartial es- timate of his merits can perhaps only be looked for among foreigners. The following portrait is taken from a foreign publication, and seems to be altogether dispassionate and equi- table. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11367.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11359.xml NOTHING is more common than the abuse of lawyers. With the mass of mankind, a lawyer and a knave are almost synonymous terms; and the outcry against their avarice and extortion is particularly unanimous and loud. A lawyer's demands are always paid grudgingly, and inevita- bly considered as exceeding his dues. A man will pay his carpenter, his taylor, his dancing-master with lit- tle or no hesitation, but his lawyer's claims are always listened to with suspicion and jealousy, and his wa- ges, however moderate, paid from a sense, not of gratitude or justice, but necessity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11359.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12412.xml MOST persons are now familiar with the history of what has been called atmospheric or meteoric stones. Their origin, however, is still a mystery: whether they are projected from lunar volcanoes, or suddenly compounded in the regions of air, is a question not likely to be soon, if ever, decided. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12412.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05385.xml A VERY ingenious and laborious work on the history of the British coinage has lately been published by the earl of Liverpool. The fol- lowing abstract of his doctrines, and remarks which these doctrines have suggested, may prove not uninstruc- tive to some of our readers, who deem as highly of this subject as it merits. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05385.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06425.xml NOTHING is more pleasing than what may be called the romance of real life: such incidents as some- what partake of the romantic or the marvellous, and are at the same time true. The following little sto- ry occurs in the letters of the coun- tesses of Hartford and Pomfret, late- ly published. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06425.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08125.xml EVERY body knows the story of Shakespeare's “Merchant of Ve- nice,” and how heavy a stigma the poet has fixed upon poor Shylock, and through him on his whole na- tion. The resemblance of Shake- speare's story to the following au- thentic relation will strike every reader, while the circumstances in which the two stories differ will serve, in some degree, to vindicate the poor Jews from the heavy load of prejudice under which they la- bour. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08125.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01015.xml IN turning over a late British publication, I was much amused to discover, in the peculiarities of the dialect of Londoners, a striking re- semblance to those of my native city, Philadelphia. The vulgar people of London are well known by the name of cockneys, and a learned enquirer has taken the trouble to examine their dialect, in which the following examples are the most remarkable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01015.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07057.xml THERE are few Americans who read at all, or who consort with readers, who have not heard of M‘Fingal. There was a time when the work was new, and when the topics which gave rise to it were fresh in popular memory. Then, it is probable, few who read verse at all omitted to read this perfor- mance: but has not this time passed away? and is not there a vast num- ber of ingenious and inquisitive readers, to whom the revolution is an obscure and antiquated story, that have never seen M‘Fingal? This omission is owing more to ac- cident than design. We seldom seek after that which is not recom- mended to our notice by its novelty, or by its connection with noted cha- racters and passing events. Books which we do not seek very rarely fall in our way of their own accord, and thus many persons pass half their lives without ever lighting on M‘Fingal, to whom that work is calculated to afford very high en- tertainment. Such readers will not, it is hoped, think our time mispent in introducing this poem to their acquaintan... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07057.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06403.xml AMONG other arguments in fa- vour of inequality in the intellectual faculties of the sexes, it may be remarked, that there are certain powers, which, to be more perfect, require that station in society occu- pied by women. Any deficiency in other qualities has been often com- pensated by the power of their personal charms. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06403.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03163.xml SINCE writing is justly denomi- nated an art, reading may surely claim the same distinction. To adorn ideas with elegance is an act of the mind superior to that of re- ceiving them, and is the province of genius; but to receive them with a happy discrimination is a task not less useful, and can only be the ef- fect of a just taste. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03163.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05332.xml I HAVE always had a notion that the most perfect character on re- cord is Pomponius Atticus. This extraordinary person, amidst the civil wars of his country, when he saw the designs of all parties equally tended to the subversion of liberty, by constantly preserving the esteem and affection of both the competi- tors, found means to serve his friends on either side: and while he sent money to young Marius, whose father was declared an enemy of the common wealth, he was himself one of Sylla's chief favourites, and al- ways near that general. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05332.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-04292.xml THE Chinese characters are so contrived as to convey to the eye the meaning of ideas both simple and compound; but allusions are made not merely to the general features and qualities of nature, nor to human passions and affections, nor to obvi- ous metaphors and allegories, but to local customs, national habits, and peculiar trains of thinking. To learn the language with facility, a man ought to possess the talent of solving riddles and enigmas; what in conversation or in oratory must be insufferable, every character, however compound, is represented only by a monosyllabic sound; con- sequently the sound for a compound word has no connection with the sounds for the elements of the com- pound. With u... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-04292.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07054.xml DARWIN, in his whimsical no- sological arrangements, ranks the timor læthi among diseases. The cause he considers as nothing more than the impression made upon the fancy by hearing described, or actu- ally witnessing, cases of great agony and horror suffered by others when dying. The mode of prevention and cure he points out to be the witnes- sing or relation of cases in which dying has borne a close resemblance to sleep, and been equally void of pain and of terror. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07054.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03218.xml I HAVE the pleasure of present- ing to the lovers of humanity the following document, which I consi- der as a great curiosity: the ear- liest testimony of friends, that remains on record, against the pur- chase of their fellow-men, and keep- ing them in a state of slavery during their lives. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03218.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05391.xml THE following is the latest news of this kind from London: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05391.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10311.xml EARL Stanhope has just printed at the stereotype office, for private circulation among his friends, a small work entitled, Principles of the Sci- ence of tuning Instruments with fix- ed Tones. Among many other ob- servations that seem to merit the no- tice of musicians, his lordship says, “musicians and tuners are in the habit of talking of the wolf in the sin- gular number. I shall, however, show in the sequel that there are as many as five wolves, in the quints, and major thirds, taken together, in all those instruments which have exactly twelve fixed keys, or exact- ly twelve fixed tones in each sep- tave.” He then gives directions how to distinguish these five wolves, with a table founded on them: and adds, “We have been in the habit of con- sidering what is commonly termed the wolf as an inherent imperfec- tion in every instrument which has exactly twelve fixed keys in each septave, whereas it is clearly proved, that, so far from the five wolves be- ing imperfections, it is precisely the proper distribut... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10311.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01063.xml IT appears from the report of the baron Von Kotzebue, in his recent travels through Italy, that the busi- ness of unrolling the Herculanean MSS. proceeds at Portici, under the direction of M. Hayter, with suc- cess and rapidity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01063.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12472.xml ARROWSMITH has been for more than a year past engaged in constructing a new map of Scotland, from original materials, to which he has obtained access by means of the parliamentary commissioners for making roads and building bridg- es in the Highlands of Scotland, The elaborate military survey of the main-land of Scotland, made in the middle of the last century, and preserved in his majesty's library, has been copied and reduced for the present map, and the several pro- prietors of the western islands have communicated all their surveys, most of which have been very re- cently executed. In addition to the astronomical observations heretofore known, many latitudes and longi- tudes have been purposely ascertain- ed for this map, as well as a consi- derable number of magnetic varia- tions. This map is to be accompa- nied by a memoir, explanatory of the several documents from which it has been constructed. The publica- tion may be expected in the begin- ing of next year. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12472.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09224.xml GEOGRAPHY is a singular word, inasmuch as the meaning is the most capricious and anomalous that can be conceived. It seems to comprehend every thing, as it is usually employed, and, if stripped of all those adjuncts which properly belong to other sciences, it is left naked and contemptible. In those works which are commonly called geographical systems, we find a med- ley of all kinds of knowledge. A little of civil history, of natural his- tory, of politics, of morals, of philo- logy, of all the arts, and of all the branches of natural philosophy; a hotch-potch of all these makes up a system of geography, in which the principal geographical circumstance is the arrangement. All these scraps and sketches being placed in the order of countries, as they stand upon the globe, serve as an excuse for the title. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09224.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12413.xml AMONG the various problems which have exercised the ingenuity and displayed the learning of histo- rical critics, none has received a degree of attention less proportioned to its importance, than the grand de- sign imputed to Henry IV of France, which was just beginning to be exe- cuted at the time of his death. That a prince, of whose fame the annals of Europe are full, stopped in the midst of his victorious career to form a project which should secure the future peace of the world; that he actually devoted the rest of his days to the accomplishment of this undertaking, and even made some progress, in surmounting the obsta- cles with which it was attended, is a statement equally important and strange. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12413.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12459.xml AVARICE, carried to an unusu- al excess, is sometimes ranked among diseases; but it is certainly a kind of insanity the most consist- ent, uniform, and harmless, of any that appears on the list. It pro- duces less visible and direct injury to others, and is, with regard to the subject of it, more nearly allied to true wisdom than any other frailty or disease of the mind. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12459.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03233.xml THE following publications are mentioned in the latest accounts from England. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03233.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-04302.xml ADVICES recently received in England from Naples contain curi- ous details relative to the unrolling of the manuscripts discovered at Herculaneum: eleven persons are at present employed in unrolling and copying. The manuscripts hith- erto inspected amount to about 140, eight of which have already been interpreted and transmitted to the minister Seratti, that they may be examined by the academy, and or- dered to be printed. These manu- scripts are, six of Epicurus, entitled On Nature. Another is by Philo- demus; its title is On Anger. The eighth wants both the title and the name of the author. It treats of na- ture and the worship of the gods. The next four are almost entirely explained; but they have not yet been transmitted, because Mr. Hay- ter and the abbe Foti, of the order of St. Basil, jointly are to superin- tend their publication. The abbe Foti has first to collate the copies with the originals, to supply what is necessary, and to translate. Mr. Hayter collates after him, alters what he thinks proper... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-04302.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06475.xml A WORK of uncommon labour and magnitude has been for some years in the course of publication, by several professors and literati in the univer- sity of Gottingen. It is entitled A General History of the Arts and Sciences, from their revival to the Conclusion of the Eighteenth Cen- tury. According to the plan, the whole work is to be divided into eleven sections. The first contains, General History of Science and Li- terature, by way of introduction to the succeeding sections, and was published by M. Eichhorn in two volumes. The latter part of the se- cond volume has not yet appeared. Section II. History of the Fine Arts. Of this section the public has been presented with the history of the arts of design, by professor Fiorillo, in three parts, containing the histo- ry of painting in Italy and in France. Section III. History of the Belles Lettres, of Poetry, and of Eloquence. Professor Bouterwick has written the history of the belles lettres to the present time, in three parts. The two first contain the histor... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-06475.xml Sun, 01 Jun 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07032.xml GREAT men have sometimes been found as capable of trifling as foolish ones. The old maxim, Sa- pientes est desipere in loco, The wise may sometimes dare to play the fool, has been practically exemplified, on some occasions, by the wisest of mankind. Newton is said to have taken great pleasure in making a kitten run after the end of a whip which he trailed along the floor. Stillingfleet was a great amateur of jack-straws. Haller did not disdain, now and then, to seek recreation in a game of push-pin with his chil- dren; and to turn the dining-table into a field of battle, the glasses in- to fortified towns, the wine into ri- vers and lakes, and spoonfuls of salt into causeways and bridges, has been the favourite amusement of many a celebrated general. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07032.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-170.xml I am here at Albany at last, very agreably seated in a little neat chamber. The family have scarcely risen, & every after dressing, washing & finding out a Barber, I have returned to give you some account of myself http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-170.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-171.xml I hope you have never known by experience what an awk= =ward business is that of making apologies; especially when there is nothing to be said in extenuation of ones guilt. This irksome duty frequently fastens itself upon my pen, in consequence of an inve =terate habit of Neglect on all Epistolary occasions. If I tell you that my oldest & most valued friends have the same reason to find fault with me that you had, I shall only agravate my fault. It will, however, serve, at least, to shew that my silence to you has not arisen from indifference or disrespect http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-171.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-174.xml I should deserve to be entirely discarded from your good opinion if I did not take an early opportunity of replying to your last kind letter just received. I sincerely hope you will not allow a negligence, which is constitution al & impartial, & which has lately found some excuse in the pressure of a good deal of business, to exclude me from your friendship. I will not promise to do better for the future, because the strongest resolutions are sometimes unavail =ing, & promises unexecuted are only covert insults.~ http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-174.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-172.xml Philadelphia, August 25th, 1806. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-172.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-173.xml Philadelphia, 1806. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-169.xml January 26th. On the 20th received a note from C.B.B. enclosing a communication for the Abolition Convention relative to the causes which have operated to delay the completion of the history of slavery which, some years ago, he undertook to write. ‘Tis in character with the man; geniuses should not be governed by common rules & maxims. His note comes 4 days after the adjournment of the Convention, yet T. Paxson had informed him of the time of meeting a few days before it took place. I did the same the last year & told him a communication would be expected. He promise to make one but forgot it until some weeks after the adjournment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-169.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09228.xml WHEN M. de Saussure travelled in the Upper Alps, about twenty years ago, he remarked, for the first time, that immense fields of snow were tinged by a red powder, the origin of which he could not ascertain. To accomplish this object, he collect- ed some of the powder, and subjected it to experiments, but his doubts on this head were far from being clear- ed up; for, although it appeared to be of a vegetable nature, his attempts to discover the plant to which it belonged did not succeed. This last consideration at first induced him to regard it as the product of a sin- gular combination of some earth, se- parated from the snow with air and light: but he afterwards returned to his first opinion, and regarded it as the seminal dust of some plant, pro- bably of the cryptogamous kind. He was farther confirmed in this opi- nion on his ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, when he reflected that the snow was never found tinged with this red matter, but at a cer- tain and determined height, where many Alpine plants gre... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09228.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10245.xml MANY men, many minds, says the proverb. This is true in every sense, in relation to all subjects, mo- ral. political, and religious, and even in our judgments of sensible objects. No two men feel or see the same ex- ternal, visible, or tangible objects in the same light. So different, indeed, are the impressions made on the senses of different men by the same objects, that we are sometimes irre- sistibly impelled to say that some men possess a sense intrinsically dif- ferent from those of other men. There is indeed a discriminating power, created as it were by practice and experience, in relation to sensi- ble objects, that is truly surprising. The sportsman sees a woodcock or squirrel, where his contemplative companion, naturally sharp-sighted as he, can see nothing but a piece of bark or a cluster of leaves. The blind man passes his forefinger over a perforated piece of copper or tin, and exclaims that the holes are not at equal distances, that their diame- ters are not the same, and that some are square, s... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10245.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-MP031.xml Marry wisdom, and beauty & wealth if you can http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-MP031.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12434.xml “THE Americans,” said a splenetic friend of mine, who has travelled a good deal in America, “are a nation of readers. Taking one with another, a far greater number of the people devote some of their time to reading, than of any other people in the world. In Great Britain, France, and Germa- ny, those who do, or who can read, bear a very small proportion to the rest. They are scarcely one to twenty; but, in America, almost every man is a student. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12434.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12469.xml IT is a pity that the most useful of intellectual exertions is at the same time the most difficult; but such is definition. The difficulty, indeed, disposes us to decry the uti- lity; and to call for definitions is, now-a-days, accounted impolite. That readiness and accuracy of con- ception and command of language requisite to answer such calls, being seldom or never possessed, the call is heard generally with anger and impatience, and he that is used to make it may pass for logician or philosopher, but will never be ranked with polite men; politeness being merely the art of pleasing, di- rectly, by soothing the vanity or ban- quetting the passions of others, or, indirectly, by avoiding accusation, and helping others to conceal their incapacity or ignorance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12469.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12403.xml THERE is no subject of political reflection of more importance than that of national defence. Happily, America is, at the present moment, more likely to be engaged in enlarg- ing than defending her territories, but how long her present security from regular invasion may last, it is impossible to conjecture. No disqui- sitions on this subject can, at any time, be quite unseasonable, as peace is the only period of preparation and provision against future danger. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12403.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08103.xml MUCH as every body is convers- ant with prints; familarly and uni- versally as they are employed for adorning our apartments or our books; abounding as they do in every kind of habitation, from the palace to the alehouse, from the city-hall to the remotest hovel in the wilderness, there are very few who knew more of the manner in which they are made than merely that the principal material is copper. This information, too, we chiefly owe to the term copperplate. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08103.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12461.xml I WAS in company, the other evening, where the benefits and evils of much reading were discussed. The various remarks on this subject at length led to an inquiry what was the actual number of books existing in the world, and whether it were possible for any man to read the whole of them. Several modes of ascertaining this number were sug- gested, but none of them were free from objection. Every computer was guilty of some mistake, and either wholly omitted some classes of writers, or mistated the number of that class which was included in his calculation http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12461.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12467.xml AN American gentleman was once entertained by a Welsh knight. It was at the opening of the Ame- rican war, on which the discourse naturally turned. The knight, after some discussion on the causes of the troubles, very shrewdly observed, that the troops designed for the ser- vice would have a very long march. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12467.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12424.xml THERE are few subjects in which a man may find more room for spe- culation than an almanac. I lately experienced the truth of this remark in a very forcible manner. Travel- ling some time ago in the wilds of New Jersey, I was overtaken by a storm, and obliged to seek shelter in the hovel of a fisherman. Look- ing about for something to employ my thoughts and beguile the hour, I spied, hanging by a piece of pack- thread from a nail, an almanac. I took it down, opened it, and turned over the pages in search of some in- formation or amusement. The re- ceipts for curing several diseases in men and horses, the moral pre- cepts, and the quotations from Joe Miller scattered through it, were all read with much gravity and de- liberation. At length I closed the book, and turning to the good woman who sat near me, and who was busy in darning a worsted stocking, Pray, said I, what use do you make of this thing? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12424.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12448.xml WHAT a series of calamities is the thread of human existence! I have heard of men who, though free themselves from any uncommon dis- tress, were driven to suicide by re- flecting on the misery of others. They employed their imagination in running over the catalogue of human woes, and were so affected by the spectacle, that they willingly resort- ed to death to shut it from their view. No doubt their minds were consti- tuted after a singular manner, for we are generally prone, when ob- jects chance to present to us their gloomy side, to change their position, till we hit upon the brightest of its aspects. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12448.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10261.xml “PHILADELPHIA is the most dull, monotonous, uninteresting city on the face of the globe, whose po- sitive advantages it would puzzle a Solomon to discover. The negative catalogue is not however so scanty. It wants more churches, markets, and coffee-houses. Its churches, few as they are, want steeples, and their steeples bells. They also want au- diences, and their audiences want zeal. Their choirs want singers, and their singers want voices. Their markets want space, air, and shel- ter; and their coffee-houses want room, dignity, and convenience. The streets want variety, being too uni- formly level, wide, and straight. Of the only curved streets one is too narrow, and the other too is wide. In the one the houses are too high, and in the other are too low. Where the houses are dissimilar, they are too dissimilar; where they are alike, they are too much alike. The ci- ty wants more hotels; the few there are are dirty, noisy, dark, and incon- venient. The streets have many trees, but little shade. Their foot pa... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10261.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09239.xml IMPERIAL daughter of the west, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-09239.xml Mon, 01 Sep 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07026.xml THERE has lately been conside- rable alarm excited in almost all parts of the United States respecting the poisonous properties of a worm, said to be found only on the newly imported poplar. This tree was introduced into North America, about eighteen or twenty years ago, by W. Hamilton, Esq. of the Wood- lands, from whose original nursery it has since spread itself, with asto- nishing rapidity, to the remotest parts of the country. Till the pre- sent summer, no public or general rumour of the existence of this worm has taken place. Whether this reptile now exists for the first time, or whether this dangerous property is now, for the first time, acquired, or whether it has only ac- cidentally escaped observation till now, or whether, in fine, there is any truth in this tale of horror, are all points on which the public curiosity has been very active. Some persons, especially in the eastern states, have been so much terrified by this rumour, that they have cut down whole rows of flourishing poplars, on which th... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07026.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07052.xml ———HERE it was that a boat was seen sailing swiftly after us, and, hailing our vessel, demanded the names and number of our men. The captain, who had no resource, suf- fered them quietly to come on board, and had the mortification to see his best seamen taken from him. Their reluctance to leave the ship, and the tears of several who were just, as they supposed, on the point of meeting wives and children, whom a long absence had doubly endeared, convinced my friend that the prac- tice of making slaves was not con- fined to the West Indies. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07052.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10262.xml NOTHING is more agreeable to all readers than mystery. A fictiti- ous performance cannot recommend itself more to general attention than by exhibiting and gradually unfold- ing some tissue of mysterious inci- dents. A thousand transactions dai- ly occur in common life, which ex- cite interest only by involving some unfathomable mystery. Without this seasoning, by which the agreeable employments of wondering and con- jecturing is afforded, many circum- stances which now engage attention would be soon entirely forgotten— People will employ themselves labo- riously, day after day, in searching for a clue to some labyrinth, when, the moment they catch it, they re- linquish it with indifference. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10262.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12421.xml SHORT-HAND has grown con- siderably into use of late years. In some schools in Great Britain it has been adopted as a part of ordinary education, and the authors of schemes of short-hand writing are never tir- ed of dwelling on its excellencies and advantages. It may, therefore, be worth while to reflect a moment upon the possibility and limits of this accomplishment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12421.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12445.xml RUSSIA, by the part she has lately taken in the contests and nego- ciations of the western nations of Europe, has become an object of im- portance. The progress and condi- tion, political and geographical, of that empire, are subjects of curious speculation; but these speculations seem hitherto to have led to many erroneous conclusions. It is com- mon to allow our minds to be over- whelmed by the magnitude of this object, and not to discriminate be- tween the real and apparent sources of power and wealth. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12445.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01061.xml THE greatest part of these vo- lumes is occupied with Italy. The author makes no considerable halt on his journey from the summit of the Alps to Florence. We meet, in this course, with some useful re- marks upon the best mode of tra- velling in this celebrated country; a few travelling anecdotes; rapid sketches of the plains of Lombardy, the borders of the Po, of the cities of Placentia, Parma, and Modena, of Bologna, its cathedral church, with its pictures and sculptures; a domi- nican monk; the passage of the Ap- pennines, and a view of Tuscany. The author then enters Florence, where he appears to have staid some time, and to have been very indus- trious in examining the monuments of arts, of which, notwithstanding the depredations of the French, it still contains a vast number. The squares, streets, temples, palaces, libraries, museums, and pictures of Florence, are briefly enumerated and described. The cathedral church, being the principal curio- sity, detains the author's attention longer than any other ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-01061.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12451.xml THE recreations and studies of youth greatly influence their morals through life. The prevailing pas- sion for novels particularly merits regard. There are some books of this kind which no parent should suffer to enter the hands of her child; which no bookseller should sell. Among these I shall mention the Sorrows of Werter, a book more read than any of its kind by the young, and which has proved the bane of more than one family. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12451.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07071.xml THE first night I found myself in a most tremendous situation. Alarm- ed by a sudden shock, attended with a hollow subterraneous noise, I ran out to the streets of this populous city, in order to discover the cause. A dreadful prospect presented itself to view. The ground began to un- dulate like the waves of the sea; sheets of fire dazzled the eye; peals of thunder stunned the ears; the buildings split in a thousand direc- tions; and had not the native hor- rors of the scene soon restored me to reason, I should infallibly have been crushed to atoms. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07071.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12430.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 argument to sarcasm, and from railtery to railing, and went on somewhat in this style: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12430.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05330.xml Sunday evening, nine o'clock.— I have too long delayed to set my- self seriously to my studies. I am determined to begin to-morrow, betimes: So I'll go to bed earlier this evening than usual. I am re- solved—but I'll stop here and go to bed immediately, and that I may rise betimes, will leave my snutters open. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05330.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10280.xml A TREATISE on the benefit of colonial possessions to France, and on the commerce between the Unit- ed States and Great Britain, by Tal- leyrand, the present French minis- ter, must be a considerable curiosi- ty at any time, but especially at pre- sent. Two essays on these subjects appeared in the Transactions of the French Institute during the last year, of which he was the author. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10280.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 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=1806-04320.xml Martin may have his curiosity gratified by looking into the fourth vo lume of Hume's History. It is not necessary for us to re-print passage from a book so common. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-04320.xml Tue, 01 Apr 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07080.xml The Editor holds himself very much indebted to the author of Reflections on the French Revolution, published in his last number. Any new com- munications from the same hand will be gratefully received. Several pieces of poetry have come to hand, which, from the nature of their sub- jects, or from defects in composition, are not admissible. The editor will spare their authors and himself the pain of being more particular. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07080.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11400.xml ALFRED—Gulielmo to Guliclma—“Cynthia the saint free from sin,” &c. are not sufficiently correct for publication. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-11400.xml Sat, 01 Nov 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03240.xml THE Editor has received several valuable communications, both in prose and verse, many of which he is obliged to postpone to a future number. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-03240.xml Sat, 01 Mar 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12480.xml DR. MEASE'S communication has been received, and shall have a place in our next. The Editor will always be happy to make this work the vehicle of conveying information on agricultural topics. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12480.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08098.xml TOM THUMB is a hero familiar to our childhood, and indeed has become a sort of proverbial sample of a great soul in a little body. It is an old and general observation, that distance and rumour magnify all objects; but with regard to Tom Thumb, they have had an opposite effect: they have made his little less. A cubit is added to the stature of a giant by every new blast of fame, but dwarfs, instead of being gradually enlarged by the same pro- cess to the due size of men, merely dwindle to a diminutiveness more and more miraculous. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08098.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10243.xml I AM going to ask you a strange ques- tion, said I, to a very beautiful woman: Do you think yourself beautiful? an- swer me, if possible, with candour. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10243.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08089.xml SO far my father had proceeded in his narrative, when he was inter- rupted by the arrival of Dr. Bisset, the friend and physician of our house; who, having inquired after my fa- ther's health, and felt his pulse; hav- ing added something to his regimen, and deducted something from it, took a seat, and began to chat with us. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-08089.xml Fri, 01 Aug 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-02005.xml THERE are few speculations more amusing, and, at the same time, in some degree, mortifying, than the different notions of the ce- lebrity of individuals, entertained in different ages and countries. Bio- graphical records are full of exam- ples of local and temporary fame, which are lost in utter obscurity as soon as the place or period is chang- ed; and an illustrissimus on one side of a mountain or river is often reduced to nobody on the other side. A paragraph in the “Diary of Lin- naeus,” published by Dr. Maton, lately struck me as affording a re- markable instance of this partial es- timate. It is a quotation from a certain Suhm, in Hist. Lit. Actis Nidrosensibus inserta. “Of those who have gained the praise of the learned world, six only are men- tioned as immortal, the highest ap- pellation that can be bestowed on philosophers: Galileo, Newton, Leibnitz, Boerhaave, Linne, and Gram.” With the first five names no man of reading can be unac- quainted; but who is Gram? I take... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-02005.xml Sat, 01 Feb 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07076.xml THAT the arts are not encour- aged in America is a fact which cannot be disputed. The cause of it forms a subject of curious specula- tion. That it arises from nothing inherent in the physical or moral constitution of the people, in their climate or form of government, is evident. That it does not arise from their poverty is no less clear, for where can be found a more flour- ishing and prosperous nation? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-07076.xml Tue, 01 Jul 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10290a.xml CONSTANTINOPLE, Alexan- dria, in Egypt, and our own Phila- delphia, are, I believe, the only emi- nent cities in the world, the founders of which are certainly known, and whose foundation may be considered as springing from the will of one man. In old times, the founders of cities were revered as deities, with- in the cities they founded, and though christianity has abolished all claims of this nature, it has not destroyed the propensity natural to mankind of reversing, with a sort of fanciful idolatry, the memory of public bene- factors. In Europe, it is still fashion- able to consecrate the remains of eminent persons, by placing them within what is called holy ground, and marking the spot where they lie by tombs, monuments, and in- scriptions; but this is not the case with the honest people of Philadel- phia. Their friends and relations are indeed respectfully enough treat- ed, but as to eminent persons, where are their ashes deposited? what monument signalizes and dis- tinguishes the spot? ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-10290a.xml Wed, 01 Oct 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12438.xml CAN any thing more strongly evince the intellectual weakness of the animal called man, than the signs of fear, the starts, the shud- derings, which he sometimes mani- fests at the appearance of a spider? How many of us shrink at the mere imagination or description of a spi- der crawling on our bare shoulder or cheek! And yet, what is a spi- der? So light that its weight is not felt; so frail that we often crush it into atoms without knowing what we have done. Wholly inoffensive: a mere spectrum: as to its mischief- making and resisting power, it is nothing. A spider is, to a man, in volume and force, less than a mole to the elephant, than the elephant to Teneriffe. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-12438.xml Mon, 01 Dec 1806 12:00:00 GMT