A Patchwork of News and Verse from the New York Mercury
An eclectic salvage of verse, family tales, oblique religious musings, and scattered notices. It includes literary fragments on Byron and Napoleon, pensioned laborers and self-made lawyers, moon lore for farming, a touching harbor incident with a devoted child, circus riots in Patterson, and frontier anecdotes about mechanics, duels, and domestic mishaps. The vivid tapestry ties moral reflection to curiosities and local color.
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Tiul
Nash
Grand Point
Isleboro
Patterson
N. J
Leats Circus
The Kentucky Millionaire Robert Wickliffe Story
The late Robert Wickliffe rose from a Virginian birth to poverty in Kentucky. He toiled as a day laborer earning fifty cents a day and advanced to become a renowned lawyer and statesman. At his death he was Kentucky’s wealthiest man.
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Ite
Payette County
Paduesh Herald
Wick
Wickliffe
Kentucky
Tie
Erin’s Fair Turf
Jamie
Patrick
Milwaukie
Fample
Robert Wickliffe
Virginia
Diminish Your Wants to Increase Means, Mercury Quote
A Mercury quip argues contentment comes from limiting desires rather than expanding wealth or status. It asserts that wanting less makes one feel richer, since gratification grows with reduced wants, effectively placing a person on par with those of vast means.
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Bedatts
SDS
The
New York Mercury
W. E. Christian
Jlim
Lord Byron
Heaven
Galileo
Roger Bacon
Botton
Goethe
West
Franklin
Herchel
Newton
Voltaire
Halley
Sir Hans Soane
Michael Angelo
Titian
Scientific American
Beecher
Walter
Niisha
Elisha
Renai
Mr. Nash
Col. Win. J. Green
Huggin
Rockbridge
Mann
Ile
Mechanic
Eli Dren
New Cyclopedia
William Hunter
Montague
Quarterly Review
Egypt
Weat Street
Germany
Heidleburg
America
Bleidleburg
Negro Bellef
Southampton Eounty Va
Aurora Boreslis
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