Gaslight's rise and sacred landmarks in history
The piece traces early gas lighting in Manchester 1804 1805 and London by 1822 with 47 gasometers 1 315 retorts and vast annual gas output. It notes gas lighted lamps and public and private uses and the enduring role of temples as historic landmarks in England and other civilizations.
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Manchester
Mears
Philips and Lee
Murdoch
Great Britain
Europe
America
London
Ure
Watiers
Mexico
Egypt
India
Greece
Rome
England
Churches of
Calamity and pious resolve amid plague in Craven tale
Lord Craven stays in London against plague after overhearing a slave’s simple remark about Gods. He remains to aid neighbors and avoids the country retreat. The piece treads through religious reflection and celebrates steadfastness amid epidemic fears.
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Lord Craven
London
Craven
Nature Creates a True Gentleman Beyond Rank and Wealth
The poem argues that true gentility arises from inner nature rather than wealth or title. It contrasts outward courtly trappings with a nobility born of spirit, beauty, and character. It asserts that nature crafts a gentleman who surpasses royal rank and social status.
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Pelf
The Beadle and Anecdotes From the Parish Sketches
A fragment recounts a family scene with a tired child carried to bed and a aunt’s playful finger signaling bedtime. It also recalls Sir Joshua Reynolds and a Duke debating Titian attribution in a light humorous tone. The piece closes with brief character sketches of a linen draper’s assistant and Mr Brown-Tigg.
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Mammia
Taney Parenes
Darling
Nancy
Perkin
Aunt Nancy
Mamma
Joshua Reynolds
Titian
Sir Joshua
Beadle
Webbe
John
Justin Bubb
St. Mary’s
Brown- Tigg
The Perils of Shopping in 19th Century Lady Purchases
A humorous scene unfolds as a linen shopkeeper tempts a lady with the season’s first costly article. The price is whispered, the color praised as uniquely beautiful, and the wife’s reluctance yields to the prospect of a new dress while the husband’s finances loom.
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Stock Exchange
Furnival
Chancery Lane
Anecdote of Paley and The Shopman's Privileges
A Victorian essay contrasts Archdeacon Paley and Lamb on wives spending money. It humorously depicts shopkeepers asking “Any flannel?” as a symbol of male privilege and consumer intrigue, ending with a call to resist deeper philosophical digressions.
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Paley
Archdeacon Paley
Will It Wash A Linen Draper’s Clever Promise
A woman asks if a new linen print will wash. The shopman asserts it will wash but not keep its colour. The tale commends the salesman as a genius, rewarded by his master, for promising durable printing.
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Alexander
East India and Colonial Magazine
East Indies
Dearden
la Belle Assemblee
Mark-Lane Express
Fraser’s Magazine
Fraser
Giuseppe Recca
Hook
Morgan O'Doherty
Bart
Liberal Party
Church of England
Goodbye Song of Farewell in Honest English Voice
A valedictory verse contrasts foreign affectation with sincere English goodbyes. The speaker declares a blunt but heartfelt farewell to friends home kin and all ties, wishing God be with them as departure words echo in a plain speech that feels genuine.
Long Denies North Wilts Seat Threat Claim
Mr Walter Long MP writes to deny being the North Wilts representative who received a threatening message from the Unionists. He dismisses the threat and jokes about disciplining the offenders with his yeomanry. The correspondence appears in Salisbury Herald.
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Walter Long
North Wilts
Salisbury Herald
Europe
Italy
England
London
Morning Chronicle
Brighton
Rawway Mars
Dorchester
Hartley-row
Court of Aldermen Debates Wardmote Attire and Fees
A Plow Monday wardmote prefestment court session heard protests over gown costs for inquest members. Foremen from Bassishaw Billingsgate and Walbrook presented pleas to fund gowns from city or ward resources. The lord mayor upheld ritual form while urging prudent expense and duties of public officers. He urged relief for the poor and reinforced police directions to prevent crime without targeting the destitute.
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Aldgate
Bassishaw
Morton
Marshal
Billingsgate
Brown
Wire
Walbrook
Wood Whelly
Whithair
A Geytteman and a Wolf Adventure in Dijon
A chance glimpse of a juvenile pickpocket leads to a comic exchange about being treated “like a gentleman.” Later, Monsieur de B. the Dijon advocate encounters two wolves while hunting, narrowly escaping as they pursue him to the city gates after a dramatic standoff.
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Blackwood
Monsieur de B
Dijon
Resistance of Air on Railways in Brunel’s Report
The article discusses air resistance to rapid railway travel, critiquing Brunel’s Great Western findings from the Whiston incline tests. It argues of errors outweighing the measured atmospheric drag, noting wind effects, train load differences, and the mismatch between test conditions and actual practice.
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Brunel
Great Western Railway
Liverpool and Manchester
Smeaton
North Star
Grace Darling letter and prison reform notes in Sussex
A Grace Darling letter thanks donors for a £20 gift and asks payment to Ridley's bank in Alnwick. Sussex quarter sessions at Petworth report prison discipline aiding reformation, with two young women sent to the London Refuge and several youths entering sea service or weighing army/navy eligibility. Also includes January fashion highlights from World of Fashion.
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Grace Darine
Grace Darling
Lloyd's
Ridley
Alnwick
Grace H. Darnxe
Longstone Light
Sussex
Petworth
London
Army
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Column For
The
Curious
Houses OF Worship
Helley
Shelley
Nature
Alsine Magazine
Cloveshoo
Cliff
Kingdom of
Kent
Ethelbald
Mercia
Cuthbert
Canterbury
Zachary
Light
Isa
Alu-Work
Mary
Missus
Inssag
Butcher’s Man
Pheriodical Liteerature
Faw
Law Magazine
Daily
Weekly Press
House of Commons
Lord Durham
Durham
Earl
Oriental Herald
Emma Roberts
East India Company
Russia
Rymer Jones
Byron
Robert Leighton
Smirke
Lane
Papa
Exeter
Petkin
Anglice
Darling Perkin
Darling Petkin
Nature's
Uluame
Charles Lamb
Adam
Mesopotamia
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