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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1863
Page
1
The verse questions social showmanship and wealth versus a kind heart, asking why people admire riches when true worth lies in character. It contrasts fine clothes and vineyards with humble virtue and the dignity of a man with a working hand, noting many overlook kindness in favor of status.
In a rustic dialogue Echo weighs love and marriage with a naive suitor. She denies flirtation and warns against deceit while a shambling cavalier questions duty. Echo finally urges decisive action, while the speaker contemplates fate and restraint in courtship.
Fragmentary lines describe a home scene with greeting at the door and a unsure remark about engagement. The text hints at social familiarity, answering a ring and a casual exchange among unnamed speakers.
Miscellany reflects on cheerful temper as sunlit virtue shaping a household. It recalls a patient, plain daughter Mary whose uniform cheerfulness sustained her family, brightening paths of duty and lifting weary hearts with her steadfast good nature.
A Dublin University Magazine meditation on a child in death, praising innocence and purity. The prose reflects awe at the child’s peaceful departure and faith in heaven, portraying death as a gentle voyage to the Father.
Reflection elevates reading by turning knowledge into inner understanding. Reading seeds ideas while thinking sows mental power, transforming information into productive insight.
A Christian Secretary recalls Lord Peterborough’s remark on piety and friendliness. He notes the church’s potential influence if its members quietly shine in daily life, shaping the world through steadfast example.
The text argues wealth brings comfort and luxury but not peace or health. It warns money cannot buy a virtuous life or true friendship, silence guilt, or escape debt to God. Socrates is cited on marriage versus single life, urging caution and regret in choices. It laments schoolyard punishments and praises the lasting demand of education.
The passage urges repentance as grace, counsels living in the present, and facing the future without fear. It recalls Christ’s cross and the spread of freedom, noting sparks of genius once deemed foolish shift history. It stresses that life’s battlefield places us by God's arrangement, not our choosing.
A medieval style admonition urges readers to trust the editor for timely news, avoid prying in the editor’s office, and prefer local papers with advance payment for the welfare of families. It emphasizes self restraint and local loyalty.
A Staffordshire letter recounts a Civil War mud scene from Gen Slocum's staff. A driver, buried to the waist, struggles at a muddy hill while his men sink. he salutes, cries for the American Union, and vanishes beneath the mud as the narrator races to help.
A comic dialogue shows Paddy and Mike negotiating over a watch. Paddy asks for ten shillings and a creature, while Mike boasts the watch never decays and runs faster than any other in Connaught, Munster, Ulster, Leinster, or Dublin. Paddy accuses Mike of deception.
A man asks Hodja Modja for the donkey in his house. The donkey brays from inside, contradicting the Hodja claim that it is not there. The man chides the Hodja and the Hodja retorts about belief and perception.
A clergyman, pressed by a lady he knows to skip a sermon on the first Sunday after her marriage, yields and selects a Psalms text about enduring peace. The chosen line reads there shall be much peace while the moon endureth.
A traveler told the company that he and his servant had made fifty wild Arabs run. He noted there was no great merit in this, saying we ran first and they ran after us.
A mosaic of quotations and notes references a man who fell from a bridge, General Blunt’s three part strategy for warfare, a reflection on moral progress, Galileo’s remark on blindness, and a witty admonition about truth and appearances. The text blends historical allusions with casual aphorisms.
Diana Doolittle recalls a chaotic Christmas Eve party begun with grand plans to impress a visiting lawyer. The domestically minded narrator reflects on family life, schooling, and her own foolish vanity as guests crowd around a makeshift feast, jokes fly, and a floor-supper becomes the unexpected centerpiece.
A narrator recalls a chaotic Christmas gathering with Rube and friends. Food spills, candles burn, and a row of gifts, poems, and candy brighten the scene, while a lawyer and Mr. Williams spar over a ring gift and a budding romance ends with the parcel delivery.
A reader recalls a missed Christus party and a companion’s mockery of mistakes. The recollection, linked to a Miss Lake and a hurried departure, conveys distress and lingering vexation over social missteps.
A lavish moonlit procession in Catherine II era St Petersburg featured a double glass enclosed sleigh drawn by seventeen horses, hundreds of nobles, and opulent palatial displays. Immense ice sculptures, Chinese village scenes, and grand ballrooms preceded a cannon salute and night of cotillon before dawn. The account lauds this as the most brilliant sleigh ride in memory, contrasting with Russia's harsh peasant conditions.
The text argues that cunning easily leads to knavery and that lying marks the shift. It warns that pride and opulence may appear united at dawn but often end in ridicule and ruin for those who attack truth, ending with a warning of self-damage.
Fragmentary note appears to identify Tao Benno Wolk as proprietor at 131 Westminster Street Soward's Block Presaniny Residence with unclear accompanying text.
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