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- Tags: Mothers
The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
Tags: "God Soul and World", 1840, aqueduct, artisans, As You Like It, beauty, blindness, Carisbrook lions, Dogs, donkeys, Duke of Nassau, eye-disease, Falstaff, filial piety, Frankfurt, Geisberg, Germany, Goethe, Héloïse, Isaac, Kursaal Gardens, letters, Marksburg, Mothers, New York, old maid, Old World, peasants, Rebecca, Rhine, Schwalbach, servant, Shakespeare, Soninberg, Taunus Hills, The Evergreen, Thomas Cole, tourism, Travel, wells, Wiesbaden
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
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