Phrenology and health guides for the home library
An 19th century advertisement promotes a range of phrenology and physiology books. It lists titles on education, temperance, anatomy, and morality, claiming benefits for family improvement, digestion, temperance, and social virtue, urging readers to order by mail and build a home library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iit
Fowler
Znor
Prifuss
J. G Sparzhiem
Wells
LG. N. Fowler
Edinburgh
The Farewell Type and the Poor Man's Felon
Fragmentary verse reflects on sowing and reaping, contrasting the harvest of kindness with weeds. It questions who saves and who sows, noting children at play and scattered seeds growing day by day into outcomes of fruit or weed as life progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ieves Loren
Flo
Jett
Han
Funk
Wes Gisep
A. Geatle
Corot and the Tillers of the Coil Metaphor
The passage extols Wiscanen farmers attention to nature and cultivation. It praises the tiller’s life as richly pleasurable and urges sowing, tending, draining, and embellishing the land to reap a bountiful harvest. The text likens farming to shaping beauty and abundance in nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corot
Nered
Enric
Fragmentary Moralizing On Money And Temperance
An extract condemns excessive spending and debt while warning that parental indulgence leads to children demanding endless pleasures. It argues restraint today prevents ruin tomorrow and cautions against pleasing every impulse, noting the vulnerability of a man who yields to all temptations.
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Fewyen& Wells
Hopkins’ Phrenological “Depot
Pheiodor
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