http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1807;f2-subject%3Danecdote Results for your query: f1-date=1807;f2-subject=anecdote Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-05366.xml OF the lives of men who have been celebrated in any art or sci- ence, who have rendered them- selves famous by the eminence of their genius, or the extent of their learning, it is a laudable curiosity to desire to be accurately and mi- nutely informed. We are anxious to follow them from their cradle— to watch the progress of their minds—to trace them from the first dawnings of their genius— from the inexperience of infancy, to the fulness and maturity of their manhood. The object of the present sketch has not indeed reach- ed the latter period, but he alrea- dy occupies so large a space in the public eye, and the eminence he has reached at the early age of thir- teen, is so much higher than most of those of the maturest manhood. have been able to attain by the la- bour and study of years, that our readers, we are sure, will thank us for the following particulars, ex- tracted from Mr. Merritt's well written biographical sketch of his life. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-05366.xml Fri, 01 May 1807 12:00:00 GMT