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Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820

This disease is almost confined to females of an irritable nervous system, the single more than the married, from the age of fifteen, to thirty-five or forty.

They are readily excited in those who are subject to the, by passions of the mind, and sometimes they come on from imitation and sympathy.

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815 …we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

…we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815 I cannot likewise avoid calling playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in a gentleman. Music is usually...   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

I cannot likewise avoid calling playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in a gentleman.

Music is usually reconed one of the liberal arts, and not unjustly; but a man of fashion who is seen piping or fiddling at a concert degrades his own dignity.

If you love music, hear it; pay fiddlers to play to you, but never fiddle yourself.

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815 For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you...   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you should let off a proverb, and say, that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison:” or else, “everyone as they like, as the good man said when he kissed his cow” everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and house-maids.

Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816 Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places...   High-res

Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816

Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places of public amusement, and many private parties.

…when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is, with an almost imperceptible and apparently accidental pressure of a little instrument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words upon her back or shoulders - Naked, but not ashamed. 

Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816 ONE CENT REWARD Runaway from the subscriber, on Monday last, James Wiley, an indented apprentice to the Shoe making business. The above reward will be given to any person who will return said runaway to...   High-res

Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816

ONE CENT REWARD 

 Runaway from the subscriber, on Monday last, James Wiley, an indented apprentice to the Shoe making business. The above reward will be given to any person who will return said runaway to his master, but no charges paid.

N.B. All persons are forbid trusting, harboring or employing him under penalty of the law.

Gideon Wooley.

Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, June 26, 1816

The wedding of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium was quite rowdy! 

…he was assailed by numbers of females patting him on the back, and calling blessings on him, &.; this gave a number of men, in the delay thus occasioned, an opportunity to take the traces from the carriage, and draw him without horses…

Princess Charlotte, with Leopold as her consort, would have been Queen of England upon the death of her father (instead of her cousin, Victoria), if she hadn’t died during childbirth to a stillborn son the year after her wedding.