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Title: Timothy Flint, pioneer, missionary, author, editor, 1780-1840; the story of his life among the pioneers and frontiersmen in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley and in New England and the South
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Kirkpatrick, John Ervin, 1869-1931
Subjects: Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840 Mississippi River Valley
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Arthur H. Clark company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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for him deserved celebrit5% was born in Reading, Mass., 1780, where he died on a visit from the South, August 16, 1840, aged 60. He painted on his glowing page,The peerless valley of the West; That shall in every coming age,His genius and his toils attest. *i* Harmony Grove Cemetery Records (Salem). Both Dr. James Flintand Timothy Flint were much interested in the beautifying of burial places.The latter once visited Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, and greatly enjoyedits beauty and care. As he wandered over it with a friend, some of its hill-side views made him imagine the pines saying: Oh, lay me in the spot where the sunbeams rest,When they promise a glorious morrow; - Knickerbocker, vol. ii, 257, 258. *1^ An exact copy of this inscription is preserved in Doctor Flints Verses on Many Occasions. Also in a manuscript copy in Boston Public Library which had been sent to Mrs. Coffin by Doctor Flint in 1841, just as it had been prepared by his bereaved and still loving kinsman and friend.
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Timothy Flints .Mommhxt, HARMo^■^• (JrovkChmi-ti-rv, Sai.km. .M.\.ss.\chisi;tts LOUISIANA AND THE LAST DAYS 247 But wouldst thou, gentle pilgrim, knowWhat worth, what love endeared the man ? This the lone hearts that miss him, showBetter than storied marble can. XVI. LITERARY TRAITS AND ESTIMATES Mr. Flint did not expect to win an enduring fameby means of his writings. He knew too well the fateof the many masterful minds and true geniuses, of hisown and other days, to hope that he would escape thealmost universal doom of being soon forgotten. Onthis point he moralizes when he is reviewing the nov-els of Charles Brockden Brown.*^ Mr. Flint felthimself in close sympathy with Mr. Brown at manypoints. They were alike blighted by the mildews ofdisease almost from birth. Mr. Brown, too, wascompelled to write for his daily bread, incessantlyuntil his fragile frame was worn out. He had reachedwhat Flint held as his ideal: deep feeling, powerfulmoral painting, laying open the recesses of t

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