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10. Growth—Health—Work
I DEVELOP’D (1833–4–5) into a healthy, strong youth (grew too fast, though, was nearly as big as ...
9. Printing Office—Old Brooklyn
AFTER about two years went to work in a weekly newspaper and printing office, to learn the trade....
8. My First Reading—Lafayette
FROM 1824 to ’28 our family lived in Brooklyn in Front, Cranberry and Johnson streets. In the lat...
7. Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man
WORTH fully and particularly investigating indeed this Paumanok, (to give the spot its aboriginal...
6. Two Old Family Interiors
OF the domestic and inside life of the middle of Long Island, at and just before that time, here ...
5. The Maternal Homestead
I WENT down from this ancient grave place eighty or ninety rods to the site of the Van Velsor hom...
4. The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
July 29, 1881.—AFTER more than forty years’ absence, (except a brief visit, to take my father the...
3. Genealogy—Van Velsor and Whitman
THE LATER years of the last century found the Van Velsor family, my mother’s side, living on thei...
2. Answer to an Insisting Friend
YOU ask for items, details of my early life—of genealogy and parentage, particularly of the women...
1. A Happy Hour’s Command
DOWN in the Woods, July 2d, 1882.—If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full ...
12. Broadway Sights
BESIDES Fulton ferry, off and on for years, I knew and frequented Broadway—that noted avenue of N...
Conclusion
Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I...
XXV. Of Theology
(1) The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we a...
XXIV. Conclusion of the Review of Philosophy in general
Thus have I concluded this portion of learning touching civil knowledge; and with civil knowledge...
XXIII. Distribution of Civil Knowledge
(1) Civil knowledge is conversant about a subject which of all others is most immersed in matter,...
XXII. Of Moral Culture
(1) Now, therefore, that we have spoken of this fruit of life, it remaineth to speak of the husba...
XXI. Of Private and Public Good
(1) To resume private or particular good, it falleth into the division of good active and passive...
XX. Of Ethics in general
(1) We proceed now to that knowledge which considereth of the appetite and will of man: whereof S...
XIX. Appendices to the Methods of Delivery
(1) There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other ...
XVIII. Of Rhetoric
(1) Now we descend to that part which concerneth the illustration of tradition, comprehended in t...