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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... Interest in Reform Movements - Personal Work Among the Fishermen The Strength of Her Writings - - Chapter XXV . HARRIET BEECHER STOWE . - BY ROSE TERRY COOKE . - Life on the Banks of the Ohio Where and - Mrs. Stowe's Father , Rev. Dr ...
... Interest in Reform Movements - Personal Work Among the Fishermen The Strength of Her Writings - - Chapter XXV . HARRIET BEECHER STOWE . - BY ROSE TERRY COOKE . - Life on the Banks of the Ohio Where and - Mrs. Stowe's Father , Rev. Dr ...
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... interest your friends in the cause , and send us funds , They will be gratefully received . Our Country is full of Relicts of the past . If you wish to write a legion of the ruins we will send the facts . It is about the residence of ...
... interest your friends in the cause , and send us funds , They will be gratefully received . Our Country is full of Relicts of the past . If you wish to write a legion of the ruins we will send the facts . It is about the residence of ...
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... interests , and had conscientiously resolved never to marry , lest the cares neces- sarily involved should make inroads upon her time and thought to the detriment of the gen- eral good . " Unless , " said she , " some women dedicate ...
... interests , and had conscientiously resolved never to marry , lest the cares neces- sarily involved should make inroads upon her time and thought to the detriment of the gen- eral good . " Unless , " said she , " some women dedicate ...
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... interests . He saw that compensation and not chance ruled in the commercial world ; and he believed in the same just , though often severe , law in the sphere of morals . Such a man was not apt to walk humbly in the path mapped out by ...
... interests . He saw that compensation and not chance ruled in the commercial world ; and he believed in the same just , though often severe , law in the sphere of morals . Such a man was not apt to walk humbly in the path mapped out by ...
Side 57
... interest . No doubt she early weighed the comparative moral effects of coats cut with capes and those cut without , of purely Quaker conjugal love , and that deteriorated with Baptist affection . Weighty problems , too , she heard dis ...
... interest . No doubt she early weighed the comparative moral effects of coats cut with capes and those cut without , of purely Quaker conjugal love , and that deteriorated with Baptist affection . Weighty problems , too , she heard dis ...
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Alice Cary America artist beautiful began born Boston called character Charlotte Cushman charming child church Clara Barton Clara Louise Kellogg daughter dear death delight devoted dollars early Elizabeth Elizabeth Cady Stanton England eyes father feeling flowers Frances Frances Hodgson Burnett genius girl hand happy Harriet HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD heart honor hospital hour human husband labor lady letters literary lived Livermore Louise LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Lucretia Mott LUCY LARCOM Margaret Fuller Mary Clemmer mind Miss Alcott Miss Anthony Miss Barton Miss Beecher Miss Cushman Miss Mitchell mother nature never once poems poet published Red Cross ROSE TERRY COOKE says seemed sing sister society soul spirit Stanton story success sweet sympathy teacher tender things thought tion voice woman women words writing wrote York young
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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!