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The Art of Being Happy

A father's letters on pursuing happiness: happiness is a skill shaped by habits, discipline, and reason. He warns grief harms health and urges self-discipline, equanimity, and moral guidance.
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Phrenology

Timothy Flint defends phrenology against a North American Review critique, arguing the brain is a complex organ with localized faculties and that phrenology needn't imply materialism.
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Obstacles to American Literature

Timothy Flint argues early America lacks a national literature due to weak governmental support, regional fragmentation, dependence on Britain, commercialism, and corrupt reviewing/puffing practices.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 2, No. 4

1833 editorial and travel reminiscences: an editor states his literary aims and recounts a restorative journey from Cincinnati toward Boston, describing towns, farms, and Yellow Springs.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 2, No. 5

1833 travel narrative by Timothy Flint describing the first U.S. steamboat voyage up the La Plata, pampas rides, gauchos, and a young man's transformative South American journey.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 2, No. 6

Argues that moral and intellectual differences arise largely from innate temperament and organization, not solely from education; education aids but cannot make all minds alike.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 3, No. 1

Selections from an 1834 New-York monthly: a humorous piece reviving Diedrich Knickerbocker, reflective poetry on time, and a South American short story about a bachelor heir.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 3, No. 2

A 1834 short fiction by William Leggett. A sloop lies becalmed; anxious crew and ominous signs foreshadow a sudden, perilous night at sea.
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 3, No. 3

Review of Robert C. Sands' posthumous collected works and memoir; praises editorial care, New York literary circle, and his biography of Cortés.
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The Bachelor Reclaimed, or Celibacy Vanquished

Opening and preface of a translated novel following Lord Milford—raised to disdain marriage—through European travels. The story aims to vindicate love and redeem the bachelor.
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The Ministerial Gift

Two essays: the Lord's Supper as an ordinance to promote believers' holiness and union with Christ; and the ministerial gift, arguing a minister's personal holiness determines his influence and success.
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“Evolutionary Ethics and Christianity”

1884 Presbyterian critique arguing evolution cannot supply a basis for morality; defends Christianity as furnishing moral ideal, hope, and durable progress.
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The Diatessaron of Tatian, and Its Evidential Value

1898 essay reviews the discovery and evidential value of Tatian's Diatessaron, its manuscripts, and implications for Gospel authenticity amid 19th-century biblical criticism.
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