of Providence and Deliverance :
There is a day of Smallings, ₁
the object of his errand — ₂
a half pound of soap, ₃
smallings; and ₂
increases. Smallings, and sometimes ₄
a cotton spool, ₃
of smallings & Trust ₅
two rows of pins, ₃
three yards of tape, ₃
To reach it he must walk almost a mile ₆
Smallings (Donnington). ₇
Smallings, Tennessee, distance of about 2 miles ₈
Smallings ... sweet ... ₉
a quarter of a pound of tea, and ₃
half an ounce of all spice, ₃
Ubi Putch...
Trinidad Smallings, Singapore ₁₀
to the widow Smallings. ₃
The weather has been very dry. ₉
Smallings, though ₁₁
smallings or weaklings, heroes and heroines ₁₂
All smalling slowly to the gray sea-line — ₁₃
sources
- evidently, OCR misread of “small things” which suits well this project.,
in Thomas Manton, A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition with Notes upon the Epistle of James. Delivered in sundry Weekly Lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex, neer London. By Thomas Manton, Minister of the Word. The Third Edition, much corrected, and enlarged with the Addition of two Tables. (London, 1657) : 364
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Well then, out of all this. 1. Learn not to neglect evils that are small in their vise and original, Resist sin betimes. Ephes. 4.37. Give no place to Satan : You know not the utmost issue of Satans Tyranny and Encroachment. So for Contention, neither meedle with it at all, leave off betime. So for Heresie : tak the Little Foxes . Cant. 2.15. watch over the first and most modest appearance of error: I did not give place, not for an hour, saith the Apostle. Gal. 2.5. 2. Learn not to despise the low beginnings of Providence and Deliverance : There is a day of small things, Zech. 4.7,. God God useth to go on, when he hath begun a good work. Philpot said, The Martyrs had kindled such a light in England, as should not easily go out..
Thomas Manton (1620-77)
wikipedia : link - the object of his errand — to the no small / ings; and too, on their own species !
a cross-column misconstrual involving “Sheepstealing” and a “Weekly Register” report from the West-Indies (the “barbarous... massacre of all the whites at Cape Francois,” from the 19th of April to the 14th of May), referring to the “1804 Haiti Massacre” — wikipedia
ex The Boston Magazine (“Devoted to morality, literature, biography, history, the fine arts, agriculture, &c. &c. 2:33 (June 9, 1804) : 131
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- ex Chapter Eighth, Varieties., in Amelia; or, a Young Lady’s Vicissitudes. A Novel. By Miss Leslie. in Godey’s Lady’s Book 35 (Philadelphia, May 1848) : 292-299 (295)
Penn State U copy/scan, via google books : linkWhen the stage drove into New Paris, and stopped at Mr. Shepherson’s door, Casper had just finished the sale of a half pound of soap, a cotton spool, two rows of pins, three yards of tape, a quarter of a pound of tea, and half an ounce of all spice, to the widow Smallings. Hastily giving her customer her change, (among which was a cent too much, and which escaped her notice while conning it carefully over to see if all was right,) he jumped over the counter, and flew to the door step to welcome his favorite sister. What was his astonishment to see Catherine’s head looking out at him, instead of Amelia’s?
Eliza Leslie (1787-1858), better known for her cookbooks...
wikipedia : link - cross-column misconstrual, at Poisons, I. “animal” and III. Poisons, mineral (of copper)
ex G[eorge]. Gregory, D. D., Dictionary of Arts and Sciences vol 2 (of 2), (London, 1807) : 472
Bayer Staatsbibliothek copy/scan, via google books : link
- “justice was not appealable, because of small / ings & Trust”
ex Home Savings & Trust Co. v. Hicks (Supreme Court of Iowa. Feb 13, 1902), in The Northwestern Reporter Volume 89, containing all the decisions of the supreme courts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. March 1 — May 3, 1902. (St. Paul, 1902) : 103-105 (104)
U Minnesota copy/scan, via google books : link
- “...and knew just where to find the cottage in which the Smallings lived.
To reach it he must walk almost a mile”ex Graham B. Forbes, The Boys of Columbia High on the Diamond, or, Out for the Hockey Championship (1911) : 186
Ohio State U copy/scan, via google books : linkGraham B. Forbes was a pseudonymous author in the Stratemeyer Syndicate
wikipedia : link - The Rev. A. T. Bannister, The Place-Names of Herefordshire : Their Origin and Development (1916) : 172
U Michigan copy/scan, via google books : link - “In 1910 a spur line of 3-rail track was opened from Buffalo Bridge (near Watauga Point, Tenn.,) to Smallings, Tennessee, a distance of about 2 miles.”
ex report of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company, being pages 208-209, from Part Two, “Compilation from Annual Statistical Reports of All Railroad Companies Operating in North Carolina, Showing Capitalization, Operating Revenues, etc., for Years Ending December 31, 1922 and 1923.”
in State of North Carolina, Twenty-Second Report of the Corporation Commission for the Biennial Period, 1923-1924 (Raleigh, 1925) : 208
U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign copy/scan : link - Manioc.
The Manioc variety tests gave the following results :—
Smallings ... sweet ... 208 kilos per arp
Cotton tree ... sweet ... 189 kilos per arpex Colony of Mauritius, Administration Reports Laid before the Council of Government during the session 1916-17 (Port Louis, 1917) : 73
Hoover Institution (Stanford U) copy/scan, via google books : link - Ubi Putch, Cassava Beureum, Mama Lenfi (Trinidad), Trinidad Smallings, Singapore, Trinidad Butter stick.
The weather has been very dry.ex “Progress Report of the Experiment Station, Peradeniya [Ceylon] (For the Months of January and February, 1925), signed H. A. Deutrom, Acting Manager; (June 1925) : 371-373 (373)
U Florida copy/scan, via google books : link - “only one of several judges of the Small / ings, though no appeal would lie against”
ex “The Royapettah Election Case” in The Madras Weekly Notes (Monday 25th October 1926) : 114
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- To taboo it altogether, observation teaches us that when the forces of civilization begin to operate in the creation of great historical dramas men and women come forward especially fitted for their parts; not does history often assign to her chief roles smallings or weaklings, nor frame her heroes and heroines out of stunted growths. There was never greater proof of this than in the present instance.
Coming of some of the best types of the most advanced European races Varina Howell was born at a high peak of the history of a strong young nation, a nation not emerging from primitive conditions nor one beginning a renaissance after decay, but one that on transplantation had become a more virile type than its ancestral stocks. So, much was ready for the flowering of this rare personality, racy of the soil, get exotic in nature. In tracing her lineage...ex Eron Rowland and Mrs. Dunbar Rowland, Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis volume 1 (1927) : 2
U Michigan copy/scan, via google books : linkVarina Davis (1826-1906), notwithstanding the language (of her biographers, above), her life is more interesting than anticipated
wikipedia : linkEron Rowland ( and Mrs. Dunbar Rowland — one and the same! ), 1861/62-1951
wikipedia : link - Thomas Hardy, “Departure,” in Poems of the Past and Present (Second Edition, 1902) : 7
U California copy/scan, via hathitrust : linkDeparture
(Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
While the far farewell music thins and fails,
And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine —
All smalling slowly to the gray sea line —
And each significant red smoke-shaft pales,
Keen sense of severance everywhere prevails,
Which shapes the late long tramp of mounting men
To seeming words that ask and ask again:
‘How long, O striving Teutons, Slavs, and Gaels
Must your wroth reasonings trade on lives like these,
That are as puppets in a playing hand? —
When shall the saner softer polities
Whereof we dream, have sway in each proud land,
And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand
Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?’aside —
This sonnet — one of Hardy’s “war poems” — exists in several states; see James Gibson, ed., The Variorum Edition (2016) : link