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[Page] 146 No. XLIV. August 25, 1797. On the probability of Future Rewards and Punishments. To Mr. Judicius. Sir, I have lately had a warm dispute with a friend, on the probability of future rewards and punishments; a subject on which you have often heard me deliver my opinion and sentiments. My friend strongly maintained that the rewards of virtue and punishment of vice were, in the present
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is not a diary, does that mean it was meant to be shared? If so, that would make the manuscript more akin to a scrapbook, which, like the scrapbooks of the 21St—century, would be used to log the creator's experiences for the sake of revisiting them later. Actually, 18th-century scrapbooks were a lot like Facebook;
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this, except for a single broadside, found folded and tucked into the back cover. However, due to the book's unclear history, we can't know whether this broadside was original to the book or was placed there for safekeeping by one of its many owners through the centuries. So, if The Lucubrator is neither a diary nor a scrapbook, what is this thing? We can best classify it as a commonplace book, which is not dissimilar to a Tumblr page; commonplace books were meant to contain a writer's original thoughts or reactions to others’ work, as well as copied—down essays or works written by others, much in the same way a Tumblr page can contain both original posts and the reblogged posts of others. They were meant as places for reflection; the Enlightenment had made se|f—improvement through education a very popular idea, and commonplace books popped up as a means of fostering one’s own critical thinking about events or readings. This fits The Lucubrator to a T. Fred Schurink writes that, of the commonplace books that have survived, the majority are academic in tone, and carefully organized; some, even the more casual ones, include handwritten indices to allow the collector to find passages more easily (463, 466). The Lucubrator looks similar to one contemporary commonplace book, that of Hector Orr. Orr’s essays are similarly numbered and titled. His subject matter is quite similar as well, as the
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, that could mean that the essays are more or less plagiarized. It was not uncommon in the 17”‘—and 18”‘— centuries for a reader to, upon feeling connected with a certain piece, copy it down, perhaps as a means of committing it to memory, or as a means of putting it in a convenient place (i.e. a scrapbook) where it could be easily found again for rereading. However, this assertion is almost as unlikely
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Manuscript—Making: The Lucubrator as Commonplace Book, Diary, and Scrapbook Sarah Fine When we think of blogging, we probably think of someone sitting in front of a computer. However, the concept of blogging isn't new; in fact, people have been practicing forms of life writing for hundreds of years. Most people are probably familiar with diaries, but 18th-century Americans also composed
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Tumblr as Commonplace Book Meghan Cox The Lucubrator looks very much like a commonplace book. The pages of the manuscript are filled with essays, letters, and epigraphs expressing ideas that the author wished himself or herself, and possibly others, to remember. Commonplace books are repositories of knowledge often used for didactic purposes. Their pages are filled with ideas, observations, letters, quotations, tables, and drawings. The Lucubrator and the genre of the commonplace book can be compared to our modern day Tumblr. Tumblr enables us to create original content that is useful for personal and educational reasons. If you want to find Tumb|r—like writing before websites were created, or perhaps even a history of the modern Tumblr, the commonplace book is one genre to which you would turn. Technology has influenced the way we now collect knowledge and information, however we still can see parallels between genres of the past and present. Despite being developed in different time periods, both the Tumblr and the commonplace book are used for similar purposes, offering places for one to keep their thoughts, fascinations, and inspirations.
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Works Cited Forbes, Harriette Merrifield. New England Diaries: 1602-1800; a Descriptive Catalogue of Diaries, Orderly Books and Sea Journals. New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. Good, Katie. “From Scrapbook to Facebook: a history of personal media assemblage and archives.” New Media and Society. 15.4 (2013):557—73. Orr, Hector. Commonp/ace book of Hector Orr, 1789-1804. Colonial North American
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Works Cited Barnum, Louise Noyes. Atkinson: Then and Now. Atkinson Historical Society, 1976. Noyes, Henry E. and Harriette E. Noyes. Genealogical Record of Some of the Noyes Descendants of James, Nicholas, and Peter Noyes. Vol. 1. Boston: 1904. Noyes, Horatio N. Noyes’ Genealogy. Record of a Branch of the Descendants of Rev. James Noyes, Newbury, 1634-1656. Cleveland: 1889. Van Winkle Keller
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write response essays to other, published essays, or to events in his or her life. This would, in a way, place the manuscript in both the scrapbook category, as it is a means to commemorate the works of others, and as a commonplace book, as it is a place to reflect upon those works. This would imply that the creation of the book was a personal project, and that the manuscript was not meant for publication, or possibly even for sharing among family and neighbors.
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[recto] {..} with other men. The vicissitudes of nature are common to all; Summer, Winter, day and night, will not favor the rich more than the poor. All that distinguishes them from other people is their riches, which often serve to increase their misery, and load them with troubles. At first they are vexed with the thoughts how to acquire an estate; then how to keep and preserve it; and afterwards how to increase it: for though they have much, yet they are not content with it, but seek for more with the same eagerness as when they had but little. After all, they have the mortification to find that what they have got, soon falls to pieces and deserts them; or that they themselves must soon leave it to others. Thus they are always distracted with hopes and fears, and enjoy none of the comforts of life: while the poor man enjoys peace of mind, and health of body; and by labor provides himself with necessaries, and procures an appetite, where the dainties and idleness of the rich will seldom allow.
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[verso] No. IX. January 23, 1796. On Female Education. From darkness mists, in antique ign’rance bound The Fair shall rise, with laureate garlands crown’d. Stevens. The admittance of females into the Academia in the United States, is an eminent instance of their refined cultivation and advancement in literature. It shows the peculiar regard of the inhabitants, for those noble and useful
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[Page] 44 A man who is not rich may be a good man and enjoy a considerable degree of happiness; but he cannot be so serviceable to the public, as if he possessed a considerable fortune. His precepts and example will be less regarded, and his authority have less dignity and respect, than generally attend a wealthy character. It is also difficult for an indigent person to revise himself to any public station, let his merits be what they will. He will be looked upon, as imprudent in his affairs; and his poverty be attributed to his mismanagement, or want of merit. And tho it be absurd to judge a man's merit by his success in his undertakings, yet it very often happens, that a man's good or ill fortune is occasioned by his good or bad management of affairs. It is certain that the frugal and industrious are generally rich, while the luxurious and slothful are most always poor, if their ancestors have not left them a patrimony.
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[recto] No. XIII. April 16, 1796. On the necessity of a Fortune in Public Characters. A competent fortune is a necessary and very desirable thing. It is what all seek for, tho’ all do not obtain it. Very few men attend to any thing else, before they have acquired the necessities of life. For a mind perplexed with fears and apprehensions of poverty, can seldom indulge itself in speculation
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