24 Aug 1846
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1846
Page
1
A 1846 Boston sermon blends reflections on death and translation with exhortations on marriage duties. It urges husbands and wives to nurture affection, faith, and household trust, while warning against laziness and neglect. The message links moral conduct to worldly and spiritual well being.
A speculative meditation on the heart as a hidden, powerful core. It contrasts outward smiles with inner passion and warns against harsh judgment of a heart that seems cold or vain while hinting at unseen depths and longing.
An essay extols the influence of women in home life and marriage. It argues that gentle support, healing care, and faithful partnership sustain men through labor and hardship, surpassing martial glory in importance. The piece emphasizes woman’s privilege to comfort and unite households.
A fragment reflects on Frederica Tremor described as a Sarin ing writer whose observations illuminate married life and its varied phases. The text hints at intimate essays and social commentary through Tremor’s pen and lenses.
A Victorian tone lectures young women on prudence and self improvement. It argues that girls should study and cultivate intellect to avoid ignorance, especially if they become mothers, and warns against valuing feelings over actions. It includes moral anecdotes on judging by deeds.
An excerpt on tears contrasts female and male crying. It notes women weep from sympathy and relief, while men weep from inability to feel, framing tears as social currency for women and a burden for men. It discusses warmth versus awkwardness and private versus public meanings of crying.
The passage warns against repeating rumors or unverified faults, noting that repeating tales harms reputations and escalates falsehoods. It emphasizes that false reporting spreads quickly as people share, corrupting truth. It frames gossip as dangerous, citing that the tongue is a deadly poison.
An ivity recounts how the nonsensical word quiz spread through Dublin when Richard Daly used it at a theatre opening. Servants chalked the term on doors, shops closed for worship, and the city echoed quiz as a phrase for puzzling or testing someone.
During the New Hampshire House debate on a bill to tax bank dividends a fledgling orator clashed with tax opponents over the impact on widows and orphans. The speech drew loud cries as the speaker argued the measure would drive widows to their last shift and underscored the event with a broader reflection on the divinity of motherhood and the devotion of daughters and mothers amid hardship.
A mixed feature notices public virtue and a battlefield dog story. It praises consistent honesty in leaders, contrasts it with changing opinions, and recounts dogs guiding through combat, a saddle theft, and a French demon-seeking hypochondriac tale alongside local curiosities and poetry-like inscriptions.
A dated compendium lists animal lifespans from Linnaeus and Buffon. Entries include hare ten years goat eight to ten, horse twenty to eighty, dog twenty, ox twenty, swine forty five, peacock twenty five, pigeon eight, turtle dove twenty five, partridge twenty five, raven one hundred, eagle one hundred.
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