Ode on the Rise and Fall of Empires in Rome and Britain
The verse laments imperial ruin and hails Britannia as rising, urging moral virtues for the future. It recalls Troy Thebes Persepolis and Palmyra, contrasts ancient glories with present decay, and calls for industry science and art to guard liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
Thebes
Palmyra
Persepolis
Troy
Attica
Marathon
Persia
Albion
Greece
Rome
East
Trapp and the Thespian Folly On a Chilly November Night
A vivid slice of humor and satire follows Trapp Coon as he soliloquizes on genius and luck, slips into a water-pipe cave, and emerges battered yet undeterred. The tale blends theater lore, bravado, and a bustling street scene with a market encounter and a comic misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trapp Coon
Trapp
Samuel
Blanchard
Trap
Cardinal Wolsey
Sikck
Thalia
Eberlein
Malapros
Duel Challenge Declined Over Honor of His Mother
An Irishman named Pat declined a duel, explaining that he could not leave the challenger’s mother an orphan, preserving family honor and avoiding bloodshed. The remark highlights witty street folklore and frontier humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Bank Circulation Question Sparks Debate on Specie
A fragment notes a claim that Ohio banks circulate under six million and questions the sufficiency of their specie. It hints that even with three million in notes, protection remains a concern. The terse line implies financial doubt and vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Duties of women in the marriage relation
The piece urges wives to model friendship as the foundation of a lasting marriage, stressing self respect, devotion, and benevolent influence. It extols women as gentle, angelic helpers whose demeanor and tone shape happiness, urging adherence to duties that sustain domestic harmony and mutual respect. It also defends Count Confalonieri against French reports, recounting his 1822 Milan arrest, trial, and the reality of his role as a rational-liberty advocate rather than a conspirator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorna Goov
United States
Confalomeri
America
France
Francis I
Austria
Louis Phillippe
Orleans
Confalonieri
Europe
Italy
Milan
Santa Margherita
Cloace
Cloace Maxima
Francis of Austria
Aleady
Confalonieri’s fate and a King’s betrayed letters
The narrative recounts Confalonieri’s long punishment by the Austrian Empire from death to life imprisonment in Spielberg, his family’s decline, and the shifting political tides under Ferdinand I. It notes alleged French royal intrigues, the Duke of Orleans, and the later deportation to the United States, ending with his voyage from New York toward Europe amid police surveillance and tainted correspondence.
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Cantaloneri
Vienna
Confalonieri
Milan
Spielberg
Louis Phillippe
France
Confalomeri
Duke of Orleans
Francis of Austria
Cantalonieri
Ihis
Brinn
Moravia
Flere
Francis L
Ferdinand I
United States
Europe
Briina
Gradiska
Goritz
Trieste
Portia
Aria
Lios
Italy
New York
Ferdinand
America
Switzerland
Liverpool
Havre
France’s King Urged to Spare Confatonieri’s Exile
An American observer recounts a Paris stop where a 24 hour expulsion order was issued for Confatonieri. The piece condemns French policy as hypocritical, arguing it betrays liberty and reforms while binding a lone ally to punishment and national abandonment. It defends American sympathy for France’s struggle for freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Ican
Virtuous Ampricon and Paratorism Reflections in Classical Quotation
A compact assemblage of antique prose and aphorisms on virtue, governance, and memory. It cites Ampricon on soaring above foes, Paratorism critiquing reform clamor, and notes on poets and philosophers in prison, ending with a Spanish proverb on temperance and drinking water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Tur Pérsecurey
Buchanan
Boetens
Howe
Fleet
Campens
Cervantes
Don Quixotte
Spain
Chatterton
Ielding
Washington Irving
Napoleon
George Washington
Fabius
Cesar
Rome
Camillus
Steamboat Bird Shooting Tale Ends With Humorous Resolution
Two Mississippi travelers recount a hunting tale of raccoons and expert marksmen. A Kentuckian boasts of fifty raccoons a day and a Tennessean bets on Captain Scott who supposedly never misses. A loud bark from a tree prompts the hero to surrender, ending the hunting story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Ordi
Scott
Stander
Captain Séout
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W.C. M’caussen
L. Harper
Gwuse
The
American Union
Sonnet
Gilbert Gay
Chateaubriand
Eliza
Sol
Tully
Virgil
Ovid
Caesars
Trajan
St. Peter’s
Britannia
Neptune
Pinder
Priam
Corumaia
WIS Cellawy
Quip
Gault
Sporzheim
Chareter
Childern
National Gazette
Count Conpfalonieri
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