The Head the Heart and Hand in Pilgrim Life
A poetic meditation on the triad of mind heart and hand as forces shaping humanity. The Head provides light in gloom while memory drifts, the Heart nourishes life and compassion, and the Hand forms the world through will and enterprise. The verse contrasts intellect, emotion, and action with references to healing, sympathy, and loving touch as life’s guiding motifs. Howe leads readers through a gentle, sentimental reflection on human striving and care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Temperance and Virtue Versus Appetite's Ruin
A long civic sermon extols temperance, health, and industry as the path to longevity and virtue. It contrasts the thriving, disciplined life with the wreck of those ruled by appetite, and praises President Taylor as a model of duty, gentleness, and national service.
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Nicholas
Hungary
Mount Auburn
Taylor
David Paul Brown
Philadelphia
Dartmouth
College
Atlantic
Pacific
Maine
Mexico
Remarkable Rain Fact and Its Enigmas
The article discusses the puzzling variation of rainfall with height, citing Heberden’s roof and garden measurements showing 12, 18, and 22 inches respectively, and Arago’s Paris observatory results. It notes higher rainfall at mountain bases and notes on a small bank marriage, and doubts legislative action to curb it.
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Arago
Paris
Heberden
Not Guilty by Whispered Fury in Arkansas Trial
In Lewisburg Arkansas 1838 a brutal murder case unfolds as Emma Miner, a striking milliner, stands accused. A mysterious stranger defends her with riveting logic and outbreaking passion, prompting a Not Guilty verdict and a fiery sermon to follow at the courthouse.
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John Taylor
Lewisburg
Conway County
Arkansas
Coke
Blackstone
Hall of Justice
Hiram Shore
Jove
Heaven
Hell
Humorous Daguerreotype Sitters Create Quiet Studio Scene
A pair of anxious lawyers enter a daguerreotype studio to pose for pictures. The man preens while the woman coaxes a candid smile, insists he stand again, and finally, in a risqué ruse, places herself in his lap to screen the camera. The act ends with her shouted line for the photographer to “put him through.”
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Tuk
Josh
Eccentric sermons and village skits in old column
An eccentric Methodist preacher recalls late comers to church and a nearby arrival with a cow on her back while a burn on her head reaches services first. A cross grained maid seeks medical advice amid a comic vent. Also noted is a Panapise epigram on Adam and beauty.
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Joel Winch
Rainy shelter tale at tobacco house ends with a boast
William Penn and Thomas Story sheltered from a shower in a tobacco house. The owner, claiming to be a justice of the peace, warned them to enter with leave. Story retorted that his friend was Governor of Pennsylvania, adding a sharp rebuke to the claim.
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William Penn
Thomas Story
Story
Pennsylvania
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Earth
Hon
Horace Mann
Prairies
Bank
Goto
STERN
Joan Taylor
the Timon of
Backwoods Bar and Pulpit
Charles Summerfield
Emma Miner
Col. Linton
Indy
Lolo
South-West
Emma
Lewisburgh
Court House
Panapise
Adar
Adam
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