Category: History - Other
From the year 1551, when Tripoli was taken by Dragut, to the early part of the eighteenth century, it continued to form a part of the Turkish empire; and as such, but little is known respecting it. However, though governed by a Pasha appointed from Constantinople, and garrison...
About the period of what "_I am gaun to tell_," the ancient aristocracy of Virginia had passed through its death struggle; the times when the rich were every thing and the poor...
18. Part 18The publishers of this _fashionable_ romance, by way of smoothing its path to general reception and favor, have attached to the title page various opinions expressed by English...
7. Part 7There are two sorts of analysis, each proper in its place. The one _philosophical_, by which the different parts of a subject are so arranged, as to exhibit in distinct groups t...
6. Part 6_Gentlemen:_--I acknowledge the receipt of your polite note, and am happy to comply with the request which it conveys. Identified with the College of William and Mary by the ear...
14. Part 14In regard to courtesy and politeness, they may justly be called the offspring of benevolence, since their chief object is to promote the ease, the comfort, the pleasure, and hap...
9. Part 9At the foot of a slope, and on the right of a stream compressed between two abrupt and craggy hills, covered with oaks and pines, stands a small village, remarkable only for the...
5. Part 5[We extract the following affecting story from the "_Western Monthly Magazine_." Though written in the form of romantic narrative, it presents one of the strongest cases we reco...
4. Part 4----"I will now give you some account of what I have seen in this metropolis. The Assembly happens to be sitting at this time; their upper and lower house as they call them, sit...
1. Part 1From the year 1551, when Tripoli was taken by Dragut, to the early part of the eighteenth century, it continued to form a part of the Turkish empire; and as such, but little is...
12. Part 12Of _Yankee hospitality_ (curl not your lip sardonically--you, or any other Buckskin,)--of _Yankee hospitality_ there is a great deal, _in their way_--i.e. according to the condi...
3. Part 3The Governor would have shed much more light upon this branch of the subject, if he had expressed his opinion as to the precise number of pupils which it was necessary to bring...
8. Part 8Before I conclude, give me leave to offer a few remarks on a subject in which every member of the faculty has an equal and common interest. If there be any thing by which the Un...
2. Part 2It is not to be supposed that Yusuf took all these pains merely to establish his brother quietly in Tripoli; the rude soldiery who decide matters of that kind in Barbary, could...
17. Part 17Yes, when ambitious--ardent--young-- I thought the world my own, My glowing portraits there were hung; How have their colors flown!-- Some are by Time, defaced so far I look on...
13. Part 13The ancient republics overlooked the worth of that half of the human race, which bore the mark of physical infirmity. Greece, so exquisitely susceptible to the principle of beau...
11. Part 11Of the various researches, which engage this enlightened age, there is not one perhaps more important, whether we consider the public weal, or the general interest of humanity,...
15. Part 15Upon those dark, bright eyes of thine, That soft, like moonlit waters, beam, I love to gaze, and, as they shine, Of those ethereal beings dream, That oft, on us, have smiled, in...
10. Part 10I'll think of thee--I'll think of thee In every moment of grief or of glee; The memory will come of these fleeting hours, Like the scent that is wafted from distant flow'rs; Lik...
19. Part 19The humorous "_Parody on Bryant's Autumn_," or rather on his piece called the "_Death of the Flowers_," will strike every one acquainted with the productions of the New York bar...