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- Tags: Midas
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
An Excursion to Manchester
Tags: 1847, Abbot Lawrence, Amos Lawrence, capitalism, Caroline M. Kirkland, democracy, factory, Harvard, Immigrants, Irish, June, laborers, Lowell train, Manchester, manufacuturing, Massachusetts, Merrimack, Midas, mills, Nature, New Hampshire, Old World, philanthropy, railcar, railroad, Sartain's Union Magazine, Williams College, women and work, working class