Theodora the orphan child rescued from mutiny life
Edward St. Clare and Major Darville rescue a three year old girl during the Indian Mutiny. Naming her Theodora, St. Clare raises and protects her as she grows into a seventeen year old woman who later reveals a deeper bond and love.
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Hayter
Burrat-Peor
Colonel Hayter
Darville
St. Clare
Pretty One
Col. Hayter
Jervis
Coorie
Tsay
Coorle
Theodora
India
Thames
Gray
Major Darville
London
Colonel St. Clare
Edward
Mamma
Proposal to Trade In Tombstone Line On Streetcar
A woman in eastern city streetcar rides with a tall gaunt man who, in a grave tone, asks if she would like something in the tombstone line. He moves closer, eyes shadowed by a veil, then she exits the car with a larking smile.
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St. Clare
Darville
Burrat Peor
Edward St. Clare
Tam
Golden Head
England
Edward
Faithful in Debt and Justice Reflects on Duty to Society
The passage argues that true religion sanctions social accountability. It condemns exploiting others and calls for moral responsibility in trade, insisting a person who repays only part of a debt while living luxuriously is a thief and should be regarded as such.
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Hion
Take away ambition and vanity and where will be heroes
Quote attributes virtues over fame with Seneca asking where heroes and patriots reside without ambition or vanity. The remark contemplates moral character shaping public virtue and national service.
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Seneca
Silent Reflections on Solitude and Learning Amid Crowded Hives
A terse meditation contrasts sorrow as instruction and solitude amid crowds. The speaker cites Richter on teaching birds and Thoreau's image of a solitary student in Cambridge College, weighing isolation against social proximity.
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Cambridge College
Thoreau
No heading fits this era quote by Channing
A reflective line from Channing contrasts earnest men with pretended rationality, arguing genuine feeling stirs the soul and fuels love, reverence, awe, fear, and joy rather than cold reason alone.
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Channing
Fenelon on mourning and simple living in faith
The writer rejects perpetual mourning and strict restraints. He prefers a simpler, more pleasing approach to God instead of rigid ascetic notions.
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Fenelon
The Sea as the Largest Cemetery
The sea is described as the greatest cemetery where no monuments mark the dead. In this vast ocean, all ranks and fortunes are equal in death, with waves, storms, and sun sharing the same tribute and slumber upon every resting place.
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Ocean
A Sure Heatrer and the Stone Rolled Away
A reflection urges recognizing God’s guidance in difficulties and viewing events as divinely ordered. An old businessman recalls ups and downs that later proved best, teaching submission to the world’s ruler and gratitude for divine help beyond mere luck.
Wounds of a friend and the service of truth
The preacher argues that true friendship requires unwavering truthfulness even when it hurts. He cites that sympathy must bow to inviolable truth, for support cannot come from those who cover sins or tolerate wrong. Only steadfast witnesses to moral principle sustain virtue and strength.
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Tretu
J. Hf. Thorn
The Making of a Man Starts in Childhood
The text argues character develops daily through choices from early life. A prompt reliable boy who neglects duties and excuses himself will become unreliable. a boy who harms others will fail to become noble or generous. Lessons insist on daily effort.
Inexpensive Happiness and the Ideal Home
A narrator recalls a simple home where a mother's love creates happiness for a family of five. The wife and mother inspires without wealth, guiding daily life from breakfast notes to evening readings, epitomizing ideal home making as Helen Hunt admires.
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Helen Hunt
A Persian impostor visits Dumas and feasts on lies
Mirza Khan, a bronzed Persian, truths of a lavish life, entertains Alexandre Dumas with tales of Persia. Dumas feeds him daily on stories, then exposes the impostor when a second Persian arrives, joking that the fraud should have learned Persian to dine daily. The piece closes with a reflection on sleep and mercy from Dr. Bushnell’s essay Night and Sleep.
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Alexander Dumas
Mirza Khan
Dumas
Monsieur Dumas
Persia
Paris
I Want To Find My Papa Story
A lost two to three year old girl, crying on a street, seeks her papa in town. A kind responder guides her, asking for his name and learning her father had recently died. The child longs to kiss him, keeping a tender memorial in her quest.
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Papa
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Eagle
Remedy Against Swindling Moralizing in Public Opinion
The Christian Union critiques both college bred Wall Street embezzlers and Baxter street pilferers, urging churches to reject stolen funds and deny seminaries built on ill gains. It argues honest people become complicit through weak sentimentality if they condone gentile swindlers and continue friendships with them.
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Wall Street
Baxter Street
Christian Union
Boy begs mercy for dog after license trouble
A Detroit paper recounts a boy about ten leading a lively dog to a central station asking to be shot. He cannot afford a dog license due to his deaf father and ill mother. The crowd raises funds, saving the dog, and the boy tells the dog he is spared to go home to Billy.
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Detroit
Central Station
Dan
Billy
Remarkable camel elephant attachment at Robinsons circus
A four year bond formed between a white camel and an elephant in John Robinsons circus. The camel died after the troupe moved from Texas to Cincinnati and the elephant mourned beside the body refusing to eat, angered by crowd fears and beatings to board the steamer.
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John Robinson
Circus
Texas
Cincinnati
Corset remark likens woman to man’s grief cure
A remark compares a woman tightening corsets to a man drinking to drown grief, suggesting both seek solace in self care. The analogy draws on gendered behavior to comment on coping methods and social norms.
Petty Pomposity and the Quiet Charm of Humbler Virtues
A narrator laments petty pomposity as an enduring social nuisance. He recalls a mild yet obnoxious example and suspects self-consciousness fuels the pompous tone. The piece analyzes how such figures speak more to their own ears than to convey ideas, masking shallow achievement with a feigned gentility.
Preserve Love Letters Burn Only Harsh Ones
A nostalgic plea urges keeping kind letters as they recall youth and devotion. Reading old notes can revive memories for widows and mothers, while harsh letters should be burned to forgive and forget, preserving the tender words that reveal the writer’s soul.
Honor and Profit or Industry
A philosophical reflection extols manual work and lists famous figures who rose from humble trades to prominence. It cites Akenside, Ney, Sherman, Cunningham, Gifford, Herschell, Franklin, Ferguson, Johnson, Monroe, Knox, Greene, Morgan, Burns, Bloomfield, Frazer, Crabbe, Keats, Blackstone, and a posthumous child as examples of talent cultivated through toil.
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Akenside
Marshall Ney
Roger Sherman
Allan Cunningham
Gifford
Sir William Herschell
Franklin
Ferguson
Ben Johnson
James Monroe
General Knox
General Greene
General Morgan
Burns
Bloomfield
Frazer
Crabbe and Keals
Sir William Blackstone
The Laughter Cipher and the Man They Reveal
Carlyle notes that true laughter exposes character while false smiles conceal deceit. He casts the man who cannot laugh as treasonous and untrustworthy, arguing laughter exposes virtue or vice in the whole person.
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Carlyle
Observer Notes On Disruptors At End Of Play
An observer remarks that men who interrupt the end of a game or play by breaking for the door share a low forehead and scrubby hair, a small characteristic noted among offenders.
A Quaist Essay on Docs
A New England boy writes a playful summer essay on dogs and tails. The piece riffs on dog terms and wordplay linking tails wagging days dog days and star terms while noting four feet and shipboard dog watch concepts.
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New England
Shakespeare
England
Notes in the pulpit stir debate on use and display
The piece contrasts extempore preaching with the use of notes. It cites Bishop Wilberforce’s habit of opening a sermon case and recalls a young man showing a Bible without notes. It condemns hiding notes and praises transparent preparation while noting some view notes as a vain pretense.
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Wilberforce
Henry
Judge Tappan and the old gimblet eyes
A humorous Goop Story recalls Judge Tappan an early eastern Ohio county court judge cross eyed. During a rowdy session a tavern bar room became a court and jail. A bystander misinterpreted the scene and shouted a curious line prompting the judge to command restraint and corrective placement in the stable.
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Tappan
Ohio
Gimblet
Hoss
Statistics of Violent Deaths in England
The piece compares death rates from violence in England to India and notes annual violent deaths in Great Britain around 16,500 to 17,400, projecting about 17,000 deaths in the coming year. It contrasts sensational disasters with daily losses from preventable accidents and the St Bartholomew Massacre.
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England
Hamdustan
London News
India
St. Bartholomew
Worried Squirrel Provokes Man to Chase in Woods
A traveler in North Alabama watches a lank countryman repeatedly climb and descend tall trees for a quarter mile. He explains a shell-bark from a squirrel got in his eye and he plans to worry the animal until it leaves the area, even if it costs him his life.
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North
Alabama
Prayer Breaks Bad Habit in Congregation Prose
A minister once prayed from the pulpit that the Lord would bless the congregation and those on the way to church. He sought benediction for those at home preparing to come and for late arrivals reaching the house of God just in time. The clergyman’s prayer helped break a stubborn bad habit.
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House of God
Truth lies in two wells and charity at a pump
A fragmentary aphorism contrasts ancient wisdom with modern saying. It suggests truth may lie in two wells and questions whether the most certain charity is expressed at a pump.
Life's ease makes reality seem unreal, Dr Arnold notes
A quotation from Dr. Arnold reflects on how an easy life heightens the sense that reality is unreal by contrast, describing the condition as filled with peculiar temptations and offering philosophical musings on existence.
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Dr. Arnold
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