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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 4. July 17, 2015. A great example of Beecher lecturing through his characters. (There’s a lot of this.)]. VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. But instead of one story additions, in the rear, such as are now built, for kitchen, shed, &c., the rear roof ran from the ridge-pole down nearly to the ground, covering the two stories and the single story with one long slant. And so, Doctor, I am to keep this half-acre of a roof...
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Norwood, chapter 4 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 4. July 17, 2015. A great example of Beecher lecturing through his characters. (There’s a lot of this.)]. VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. But instead of one story additions, in the rear, such as are now built, for kitchen, shed, &c., the rear roof ran from the ridge-pole down nearly to the ground, covering the two stories and the single story with one long slant. And so, Doctor, I am to keep this half-acre of a roof...
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Norwood, chapter 2 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 2. July 10, 2015. Well, oops: I left out chapter 2! VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. When he was eighteen years old, Cathcart bought his time of his father for two hundred dollars. These were considered very liberal terms in those days. A son’s services for three years before his majority were no small part of the working capital of a small farm. Wealth created without spot or blemish is an honest man’s peerage; and ...
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Norwood, chapter 1 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 1. June 25, 2015. VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. Since the introduction of railways, thousands of curious travellers. Every summer have thronged New England, have seen its. Manufacturing villages, and admired its general thrift. But those. Who know its scenery only by the river-valleys, know little of it;. And those who have seen its people only in cities, are little. Acquainted with New-England character. The scen...
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Norwood, Preface | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. June 19, 2015. I’m working on a transcription of Henry Ward Beecher’s (pretty bad) 1867 novel,. It’s long. Really, really long. So I’ll be posting chapters here appropriate, because it originally appeared serialized in the. Famous for employing Fanny Fern. To write for $100 per column. When the last sheet of the manuscript of Norwood was ready for the press, I sent the following letter with it:. MY DEAR MR. BONNER: You have h...
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How to ride a velocipede, 1819 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. How to ride a velocipede, 1819. July 22, 2015. The velocipede was a precursor to the bicycle and had just been invented when the. Gave readers this slightly confusing description. (A photo in the Wikipedia article on the dandy horse. Makes the description a lot clearer.) What I especially like is the paragraph on how to ride it something I’ve wondered since I first read about these. Though other questions linger: could it. It con...
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Norwood, chapter 3 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 3. July 2, 2015. Finally, something happens! VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. What wonder that it is a silent hour and perplexed? Is the soul confused? Why not, when the divine spirit, rolling clear across the aerial ocean, breaks upon the heart’s shore with all the mystery of heaven? Is it strange that uncertain lights dim the eye, if above the head of him that truly loves hover clouds of saintly spirits? The great ...
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Norwood, chapter 5 | So many words, so little time
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So many words, so little time. Reading and writing in 19th-century America. Norwood, chapter 5. July 31, 2015. A heroine is born, and one of Beecher’s mouthpieces talks and talks. VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. The night on which Rose Wentworth was born was furnished out with all suitable auguries. It was more nearly morning than night. That was well, to be born as the day was breaking and morning was fresh all on the earth. The dew lay pure on all the ground, and the birds were singing. The sap flowed aga...
