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“A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING ONES;

or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress”

by the late Lord Timothy Dexter

 

 

 

 

In the process of retracing footnotes ~ these will be sequential, linked from the Pickle's text, both the transcribed transcript as well as the split screen translated versions.
~ Footnotes for Folio 1 ~
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Lord Dexter relates how he was created Lord by the People, announces his intention of forming a Museum of great men, that shall be the wonder of the world, and shall confound his enemies.

1 Dexter began planning his "mouseum of grate caricters" to honor historical "figures" in history, foremost George Washington, who had died on December 14, 1799.
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Lord Dexter relates how he came to Fortune, by Speculations in Warming-Pans, Whalebone, Bibles, and Government Securities.
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Lord Dexter informs the whole World of the improvements made and contemplated about his Palace: describes his Tomb, etc.
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~ Footnotes for Folio 2 ~
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Lord Dexter depicts the evil results of making Two Towns of One; advises against Office-Seeking and College-Learning.
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Magnanimity of Lord Dexter.
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Lord Dexter’s Dissertation on Man.
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Lord Dexter against Colleges and Priests.
QUIXOTANA: Lord Dexter’s Pugilism --- Rencontre with a Lawyer --- the Peer suffers ignominious defeat.
Lord Dexter discourses very learnedly on Bridges; arrives to the conclusion that Newburyport will double its population in thirty years, and ends with a splendid donation to the town to be remembered in his will.
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~ Footnotes for Folio 3 ~
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PRINTED ARTICLES AND ADVERTISEMENTS (spelling and punctuation modified by publisher, The Impartial Herald)
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ADDENDA
Lord Dexter’s Domestic Afflictions.
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Forbid by the Ghost of his Wife to become a Mason; Makes a contract with the Ghost to quit his estate.
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~ Footnotes for Folio 4 ~
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Lord Dexter announces the Demise of the Infernal Monarch and the Pope; proposes himself for Emperor.
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Lord Dexter divulges his anticipations of an Empire, with himself at its head --- he as a Quaker Monarch, to give Peace to the World; his views founded on remarkable Prognostics at his Birth.
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Lord Dexter, like other men of the world, was a constant and enthusiastic writer for the press. Though some of his letters have been collected and many have been quoted in this life there are several gems of composition that seem peculiarly worthy of a modern reader’s attention. Several of them here follow, which show, as well as the “Pickle,” his sterling character and unparalleled point of view.
Dexter’s Humor.
Lord Dexter --- Again!
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Corollary --- Prosit! Correspondence chronicling Dexter's 1793 Deer Island Speech and an exculpatory explanation and self-introduction from the Man of Letters.


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