Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times; an Entirely New Work, Full of Romantic Story, Lively Humor, Thrilling Experiences, Tender Pathos, and Brilliant Wit, with Numerous Anecdotes, Incidents, and Personal ReminiscencesA. D. Worthington, 1884 - 715 sider |
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... artistic . Finally , the Publishers venture to hope that they have not misconceived the temper of the time , and that to every one of the thousands of homes which the book may enter , it will bring something of the courage , patience ...
... artistic . Finally , the Publishers venture to hope that they have not misconceived the temper of the time , and that to every one of the thousands of homes which the book may enter , it will bring something of the courage , patience ...
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... artistic taste and aspirations- " Beth , " with her sweet and gentle nature , and early death- and " Jo , " who was Miss Louisa herself - did not Concord know them all , and smile at them as old friends when they looked out of the pages ...
... artistic taste and aspirations- " Beth , " with her sweet and gentle nature , and early death- and " Jo , " who was Miss Louisa herself - did not Concord know them all , and smile at them as old friends when they looked out of the pages ...
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... artist sister May , and Miss Bartlett , an inti- mate friend . This journey , taken in 1870-71 , is described in so lively a manner that the reader really feels as if he had shared it . In this book the author figures as " Livy ...
... artist sister May , and Miss Bartlett , an inti- mate friend . This journey , taken in 1870-71 , is described in so lively a manner that the reader really feels as if he had shared it . In this book the author figures as " Livy ...
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... artist gives form , line , color , and a phase of life or expression ; the biographer gives country , lineage , personal appearance , deeds ; but the better part of a life , the incentive , is as hard to catch , as delicate to ...
... artist gives form , line , color , and a phase of life or expression ; the biographer gives country , lineage , personal appearance , deeds ; but the better part of a life , the incentive , is as hard to catch , as delicate to ...
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... artist , and enjoyed good social relations . With them she had a careful English course with music , in which she became quite proficient . Her mother preferred that she should not study the languages in England ; she intended to take ...
... artist , and enjoyed good social relations . With them she had a careful English course with music , in which she became quite proficient . Her mother preferred that she should not study the languages in England ; she intended to take ...
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Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of ... Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1884 |
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Side 580 - 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 223 - 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 581 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Side 446 - 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 142 - 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 51 - 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 45 - ... 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 214 - 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!
Side 221 - Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts; These are their stay, and when the leaden world Sets its hard face against their fateful thought, And brute strength, like...
Side 446 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.