Of the Term Aesthetics
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Survey of the term "aesthetics": its Greek/Latin origins, adoption by German thinkers (Kant, Hegel), debates among classicists and critics, and its establishment in English usage.
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Of the Term Aesthetics
Our Visit to the Somerset Farmer
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A 19th-century essay celebrating rural farm life in New Jersey—hospitality, fruit culture, hearty fare, and practical industry. It argues that cultivation and family labors bring moral improvement.
Presbyterianism in Virginia
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Lives of Robert Blair and early Virginia Presbyterianism, tracing ministers like Francis Makemie, legal struggles over the Act of Toleration, and the church’s colonial foundations.
Roadside Architecture
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Critiques narrow "practical" education and defends sound foundational learning. Advocates tasteful roadside architecture—beauty from knowledge not cost—and educating builders with prizes and models.
Sears’s Life of Luther
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Praises Barnas Sears’s Life of Luther for thorough German-source research and a clear, evangelical account of Luther’s early conversion and justification. Notes the later years are compressed.
The Minor Works of Doctor Johnson
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Review of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s minor works—essays, letters, prefaces, prayers and poems—praising moral tone and Dictionary preface while critiquing some letters and his Shakespeare criticism.
The Physiognomy of Houses
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An essay that personifies houses—castles that frown, cottages that smile, and deserted homes that reveal neglect—arguing a home’s appearance reflects its inhabitants. Includes a short poem on hope.
The Prospects of the Mechanic
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Three essays from Princeton Magazine (1850): Gothic language scholarship; American mechanics’ prospects and social mobility; and a call for poetry suited to its age.
The Working Man’s Aim
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An essay urging young working men to ‘aim high’—pursue intellectual and moral growth beyond mere labor—and a short poem reflecting on age and time.
What Can We Do for Irreligious Households?
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Urges Christian parents to use family worship, instruction, example and prayer to reclaim irreligious households and train children. Highlights baptismal covenant and catechism.
Wordsworth
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Critical appreciation of Wordsworth praising his truth to nature, melodic versification, and moral purity while noting stylistic excesses and theoretical errors.
Carl, the Young Emigrant
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Juvenile Sunday-school story about Carl, a young German emigrant orphan at a boarding school. It emphasizes teacherly kindness, schoolboy camaraderie, and reading nature through Scripture (Psalms 19, 104).
Fireside Singing
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Three pieces: a warning of the soul’s death and sleepless torment for the ungodly. An appeal to family hymn-singing to nurture piety, and a critique of superficial external ornament.
Sabbath Evenings in Former Days
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Reflects on the Christian resolve to ‘call nothing mine but God,’ citing Abraham’s tithe as surrender. Urges Sabbath-evening family worship and weekly catechizing from the Westminster catechisms.
The Cottage Bible
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Argues for lively congregational psalmody, honors the family ‘Cottage Bible’ and home worship as a spiritual heirloom, and reflects on the sacred mother–child tie seen in Christ’s humanity.
The Sitting Room
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1851 Presbyterian Magazine urges intelligent, spiritually edifying periodicals and promotes family worship. Reflects on infants in heaven (‘of such is the kingdom’).
A Country Churchyard
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Essay on how diverse evangelical denominations mutually spur zeal and preserve essential faith. Includes a meditative country churchyard sketch and an extract of Francis Makemie’s sermon (Ps. 50:23).
All Is Yours
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Exposition urging unity: Christ is God’s, believers are Christ’s, therefore all things are theirs — a call to humility toward ministers and assurance in union with Christ.
Goold’s Edition of Owen
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Review of W. H. Goold’s critical edition of John Owen’s works, lauding careful collation, corrected text, judicious notes, and its importance for Christology and Trinitarian theology.
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