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- Tags: Benjamin Franklin
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
Christian Charity
Tags: 1828, A Short Essay to Do Good, African American, Baptist, Benjamin Beddome, Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Calvinism, Catholic, charity, Charles Samuel Stewart, Christianity, colored, Death, girls, Irish, James 4:11, Jesus, Jews, Juvenile fiction, missionaries, orthodoxy, Park Street Church, Pharisees, prejudice, Psalm 23, religion, Samaritans, Sandwich Islands, Unitarian
The Unpresuming Mr. Hudson
Tags: "Edwin and Angelina", 1835, 1836, Andrew Jackson, Atalanta, bachelors, Benjamin Franklin, Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Pedrotti, dancing, daughters, Eliza Leslie, Female education, Fincastle coach, gentlemen, gift book, Hottentots, individualism, Jackson meetings, love poems, manners, marriage market, Mary Ann Paton (Mrs. Wood), modesty, Mothers, Natural Bridge, Oliver Goldsmith, single life, Sir Walter Scott, stage-coach, Sweet Spring, The Gift, Virginia, watering-places