“Remarks on the wonderful Construction of the Eye”
“View of the Starry Heavens”
“The singular state of man when asleep.”
“Remarks on the wonderful Construction of the Ear.”
Original: Betrachtungen über die Werke Gottes im Reiche der Natur
und der Vorsehung auf alle Tage des Jahr.es: Halle 1772 by Christoph
Christian Sturm (1740-1786)
Translation: _Reflections for every day in the year on the works of
God..._ London 1791, 6th edn. 1798, 7th edn. 1800
Source: All four essays appear in _The New magazine of knowledge
concerning Heaven and Hell..._, 1790.
Notes:
“Georgium Sidus” was Herschel’s original name (1781) for Uranus.
Links: 1800 (7th) edition:
reflectionsfore01sturgoog
reflectionsfore00unkngoog
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1808 (“new edition”): reflectionsonwor01sturiala
“Wanderings of the Imagination”
Source: excerpts from a book of the same title (2 vols., 1796).
Author: Elizabeth Gooch (1756-after 1804), born Elizabeth Sarah
Villa-Real. Best known for _An Appeal to the Public, on the
conduct of Mrs. Gooch, the wife of William Gooch, Esq._ 1788.
Notes: Critical Review, February 1796 (a generally unfavorable
review), referring to a passage in the Fourth Wandering, No. 101:
“One of the licensed abuses which our author animadverts upon--the
insolence of servants, to whom it is not immediately convenient
for the master or mistress to pay _exorbitant_ wages due to
them--might be easily obviated, if those, who call themselves
their superiors, would have the discretion to confine their
expenses within their incomes. We are aware that this is an
unfashionable maxim: but the neglect of it necessarily involves
consequences still more serious than those which Mrs. Gooch has
stated--the insolence of _vulgar tradesmen_ superadded to that
of servants, and ultimate turpitude, disgrace, and ruin.”
“The Farrago”
The source is as given in the main text. This seems to be the only
piece in the New-York Weekly whose original source is fully credited.
Author: Joseph Dennie 1768-1812.
“The Farrago” was written over the period 1792-1802, generally for
The Farmer’s Museum. The selections printed in the New-York Weekly
originally appeared in the author’s own publication, The Tablet.