Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
He whose object is to make an impression on the public mind, must first, as an indispensable preliminary, secure the public attention. Much that is said or written, partakes in so great a degree of an unimpressive and a common-place character, as to be utterly disregarded. To...
_Fall of rain._--An account of the water that fell in rain and snow, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1812 to 1819, inclusive, and the number of days, in each year, in which the...
1. Part 1He whose object is to make an impression on the public mind, must first, as an indispensable preliminary, secure the public attention. Much that is said or written, partakes in...
5. Part 5I lately read an account of the figure, which, under some peculiar state of the atmosphere, appears on the Hartz mountain, in Germany. It reminds me of an extraordinary illusion...
4. Part 4"The great number of public holy-days (as they are termed) which are generally observed, are not without their pernicious influence on the morals of society.--Was the manner of...
3. Part 3"As the vice under consideration did not originate at those places, it is not limited to the class of people who drink there. The customers of coffee houses, hotels, and other t...
2. Part 2Thou wilt readily perceive, without my dwelling on it, that the above method would answer equally well for store cattle as for horses. By the present mode the corn stalks are al...
7. Part 7Nay, we have health--you love your wife-- And she returns its flame; Want still is absent from our cot, God gives us breath to sooth our lot, What more can you desire?