Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our TimesA. D. Worthington, 1885 - 715 sider |
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... Causes both economical and moral have tended to break up old habits of life and thought , and make new demands upon their capacity and conscience , which experience has not yet taught them to satisfy . All over the land , women are ...
... Causes both economical and moral have tended to break up old habits of life and thought , and make new demands upon their capacity and conscience , which experience has not yet taught them to satisfy . All over the land , women are ...
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... Travel - Arrested for Voting - The Legal Struggle that followed Her Labors for Woman Suffrage - Her Industry and Self - denial for the Cause - Personal Appearance . 53 - Chapter III . CATHERINE E. BEECHER . BY HARRIET BEECHER XV.
... Travel - Arrested for Voting - The Legal Struggle that followed Her Labors for Woman Suffrage - Her Industry and Self - denial for the Cause - Personal Appearance . 53 - Chapter III . CATHERINE E. BEECHER . BY HARRIET BEECHER XV.
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... Cause - How She did it A Prodigious Task- " It Shall be Done " Marvellous Industry and Perseverance Charles Sumner's Friendship - A Letter of Thanks from Abraham Lincoln - Assuming the Management of " Harper's Bazaar " A Signal Success ...
... Cause - How She did it A Prodigious Task- " It Shall be Done " Marvellous Industry and Perseverance Charles Sumner's Friendship - A Letter of Thanks from Abraham Lincoln - Assuming the Management of " Harper's Bazaar " A Signal Success ...
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... Lectures and Addresses - Edits " The Revolution " Travels in France and England - Wit Personal Appearance and Characteristics - Anecdotes Future of the Cause 602 Chapter XXVII . MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE . ( " MARION CONTENTS . XXV.
... Lectures and Addresses - Edits " The Revolution " Travels in France and England - Wit Personal Appearance and Characteristics - Anecdotes Future of the Cause 602 Chapter XXVII . MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE . ( " MARION CONTENTS . XXV.
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... cause of abolition , and who , later , set themselves to win for women suffrage and social freedom . Fugitive slaves came there , too ; cultured and inquiring for- eigners ; transcendentalists , with bees in their bonnets and the light ...
... cause of abolition , and who , later , set themselves to win for women suffrage and social freedom . Fugitive slaves came there , too ; cultured and inquiring for- eigners ; transcendentalists , with bees in their bonnets and the light ...
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Side 57 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Side 125 - And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Side 594 - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
Side 594 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Side 458 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Side 131 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Side 594 - Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. "He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
Side 51 - ... fierce, funny, or thoughtful. Her long, thick hair was her one beauty; but it was usually bundled into a net, to be out of her way. Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a fly-away look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman, and didn't like it.
Side 209 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Side 200 - Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart ! Ask the gier-eagle why she stoops at once Into the vast and unexplored abyss, What full-grown power informs her from the first, Why she not marvels, strenuously beating The silent boundless regions of the sky!