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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1841
Page
1
A scanned 19th century weekly issue prints advertisements for subscription rates and a moral essay on habit. It includes long prose on revenge, gratitude, and labor, plus a piece praising farmers and reflections on temperance and law.
In this dialogue a tinker argues that true gentility is freedom and independence rather than formal work. He rejects clerks and officials as not masters of their own lives, and proposes a traveling knife grinder life as the enviable profession. He measures livelihood by income and autonomy, praising self sufficiency and philosophical disdain for convention.
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