Doannie and the Sermon From the Fireside Visits
A plain-spoken elder asks the pastor where his last sermon gained its juice. The minister explains he gathered material from parishioners at their firesides and sickbeds, weaving trials and daily life into sermons. He notes study of human nature sustains a long ministry.
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Doannie
Dominic
Neithor van B Stud
Neighborr 4
Frank
Van 13
Miss M
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Christian Intelligencer
Growing Older and Liberty in an Aging Self
The fragment reflects a man confronting aging, feeling his past youth vanish as he recognizes his grown limits. It contrasts the old man’s self with his adolescent memories, the burden of small irritations, and a note on liberty as a blessing earned through effort.
Mind Your Business Doctrine for Personal Conduct
A long fragment argues that a man of business must mind his own business and avoid meddling in others affairs. It warns against chasing fads and politics for notoriety, urges focus on personal industry and virtue, and promotes a balanced life with family, thrift, and virtuous example as the true measure of success.
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Rhode Island
Eve and Adam on hired girls and domestic labor
A Life illustrated style meditation mocks the notion of Eve needing a hired girl. It argues Adam performed all tasks from cooking to milking, while Eve’s duties were essential but not subservient, concluding that Eve did not need outside help and lamenting inherited expectations.
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Adam
Eve
Shome
Religion That Will Wear and Last Beyond Show
A speaker argues religion must be solid and active, not mere holiday display or gilt gingerbread. He decries people who treat faith as fashion, cautioning that quick, flashy pieties fade and fail to evidence interior excellence or serve humanity through daily practice.
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Docenas JeRrosp
China
John Bunyan in Puritan Self-Images and Military Service
Miscellany reflects on John Bunyan’s self depiction as devout yet prideful, noting his early sinfulness, steadfast marriage, prohibition of drink, and a single lapse into profane language. It traces his youth in Elstow, 17-year enlistment in the Parliamentary Army, and his later war-time imagery shaping religious visions.
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John Bunyan
Titus Oates
Brownri
Elstow
Heaven
Fearth
Hell
Fir Hevis
Southampton
Laud
Bunyan
Leicester
Camna
Tits Greatheart
Boanerges
Credence
Pairfax
How Men Rise In the French Army Chronicle
A discussion of social origins of French officers shows humble beginnings rising to high rank. It contrasts merit and bravery with the English system of purchase, noting that noble birth or wealth does not determine advancement in France.
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Hocus
Launes
Masseud
Avera
Bernadotte
Murat
Juno
Ney
Suchet
St. Cyr
Hemblest
Currants for Quality Fruit From Better Cultivation
The article urges farmers to plant currants in open, workable soil rather than obscure garden corners. It advises hoeing, thorough manuring, and keeping soil around roots moist with seaweed spray to boost yields of high quality fruit for sauces pies jellies and wine.
Four Great Men and the Toll of Wealth and Power
A dense sermon-like passage reviews four infamous rulers Hannibal Casan Bonarante and one other, noting each died violently or in exile while leaving the world in awe. It contrasts their conquests with the moral cost to humanity and condemns wealth as burden rather than power. The rhetoric laments riches and class-wealth, urging beneficence over greed, with Brecher cited as the source.
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Alice
Atexanpen
Hannival
Rome
Alps
Hannibal
Casan
Bonarante
Greas
Perdition
Brecher
Coffee and Clerical Folly Across Aging Minds
The article surveys coffee as a stimulant used by writers and scholars from Walpole to Voltaire, noting how intense focus and long sessions led to health crises and even tragedy. It also lampoons clergy courting women, warning of moral ruin as a New York sheet critiques a New Jersey pastor tied to a murder case.
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New York
Hardin
New Jersey
Poker Night Folly Sparks Malapert Lawyer Grudge
The San Andreas Independent recounts Col. Joses, a San Francisco lawyer, hosting a poker session in a northern county hotel. A wolfskin clad client seeks legal help after a loss, claiming damages of four dollars in a tale of bluff, bravado, and mounting tempers.
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San Andreas
Col. Joses
San Francisco
Pike
Wolfskin
Walt
Vlipkins
Olf Wicking
Squire
Sidewalk Shoveling Tale and Other Humorous Fragments
A garbled mix of old time anecdotes and quips. It includes a tale of a Irishman misusing a shovel after being asked to shovel the sidewalk, a passerby misinterpreting a dream marriage, a boastful portraitist who keeps his prices open, a father joking about his boy being a chip off the old block, and brief exchanges about boots and death. The fragmentary piece also references lunatics, proverbs, and promissory rhetoric as humor.
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