Early Lessons From a Frugal Scholar and Silent Debates
An autobiographical extract describes a strict self discipline in youth, using frugal diet to fund books and study. The narrator details self taught arithmetic, navigation, grammar, and Xenophon’s disputation method, evolving toward modest, non dogmatic rhetoric to persuade without offense. He cites Locke and Pope on thinking and teaching.
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Tryon
Cocker
Seller
Stormy
Locke
Mefis
du Port Royal
Greenwood
Socrates
Xenophon
Shafisbury
Collins
Pope
Jefferson Replies To Richmond Public Respect Tribute
The Richmond crowd honored former President Thomas Jefferson with a public address. Jefferson's reply praises fellow citizens for their support in liberty struggles and hopes for continued prosperity in Richmond. News notes from Malaga and Lisbon report Bonaparte influences and British troop movements near the Tagus, with naval orders and port clearances in Spain and for New York.
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Jefferson
U. States
Richmond, O
Malaga
Triese
Adriatic Sea
Bonaparte
Grinalds
Spain
Betfey
Lisbon
Lord Wellington
Tagus
Otober
Cadiz
Don Onis
Gijon
St. Andero
St. Sebastians
Joseph
New-York Gazette
Burke’s History of Virginia review by CLIO New York notice
The piece praises Burke’s History of Virginia as a superior state history that elevates national pride and emulation. It argues Americans should study their early history, features praise for the authors and style, notes three volumes published to 1775 with a fourth forthcoming, and mentions Captain Grinalds of the brig Wheeler arriving in 29 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burke
Virginia
CLIO
New-York
Grinalds
Wheeler
Murder on the Intercourse At Portsmouth Carteret County
Seaman Moses Davis was killed by Archibald Davidson supercargo and partial owner of the brig Intercourse while anchored in Wallace channel Portsmouth Carteret County Davidson fled after fatally striking Davis with a hickory handspike following a dispute over crew size. A hue and cry is issued for Davidson.
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Raleigh
N. C
Moses Davis
Intercourse
Gallagher
Archibald Davidson
Wallace’s Channel
Portsmouth
Carteret
Davidson
Caution Against Fire From Loudon Magazine
An 19th century note warns against clothing fires and offers quick actions. If flame catches low, victims should lie down and roll to smother or a bystander can remove the coat and smother with a coat or hearth rag. Early action, calm mind, and ready know how reduce fatal outcomes.
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Loudon Magazine
Minute divisions of matter and advances in steam boat venture
The passage extols the minuteness of matter with gold beaters and bodies of tiny animals, notes Raleigh Registers partnership with N F Roosveld to extend steam boat use on the Ohio and Mississippi with 70 ton boats, reports Austrian officers' unrest after Wagram, and announces a new paint bed discovered by Wm Woodworth rivaling Terra di Sienna with trials in the city.
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Messrs. Livingston and
Fulton
N. F. Roosveld
Ohio
Mississippi
Misissippi
Roosveld
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Wm. Woodworth
Elitha Starns
Tolland
Mof
Abner Reed
Invention of Da Garr Wheel Promises Powerful Mills
Rioward Bertran introduces a new Garr Wheel design with far greater power than existing wheels. A mill using the construction is reportedly in full operation. The piece notes an unrelated British debt figure and offers a speculative comparison to gauge its scale.
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Rioward Bertran
New-York
da Garr
Berrian
Tragic Bull Enclosure Incident Shocks Sharon County
A sobering event in Sharon County involves a young man, son of a widow, who drove a bull from a breached enclosure. He was fatally injured when the enraged animal gored him and then lingered atop his body before others could rescue him. The report also notes unrelated items including Henc Wayne Jr. traveling to Erie County and a Hertfordshire church notice banning non parishioners from burial in the churchyard.
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Sharon
Schobariz
Rufin
American Herald
Pennsylvania Democrat
Henc Wayne
Chester County
Anthony Wayne
Erie County
Paoli
Society of Cincinnati
Ireland’s Airs and Moore’s Ode to Emmet
The piece notes a forthcoming collection of ancient Irish airs with modern songs in Ireland, written by Thomas Moore who is praised for his vivacity but criticized for a later calumny about the United States. It recalls Robert Emmet’s courage, his request about epitaphs, and Moore’s poetic verses set to the Brown Maid air mourning Emmet.
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Ireland
Thomas Moore
Anacreon
Moore
England
United States
Robert Emmet
Emmet
Emaret
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Franklin
Richmond, C
Richmond
Wu. Fousner
Wagram
Hiller
Bellegarde
Mercantile Advertiser
Peterbourgh Intelligencer
Ludford
Hertfordshire
Ephraim Grubb
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