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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... began the development of his educational ideas in Cheshire , Conn . , but in 1828 , at the age of twenty - nine , he was invited to take charge of a school for young children in Boston by certain persons who had seen and admired the ...
... began the development of his educational ideas in Cheshire , Conn . , but in 1828 , at the age of twenty - nine , he was invited to take charge of a school for young children in Boston by certain persons who had seen and admired the ...
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... began to retrace her history for the purpose of this brief biography , I had always supposed that Miss Alcott had been born in Concord - that town with which she is so in- timately associated in the minds of us all . I fancied she might ...
... began to retrace her history for the purpose of this brief biography , I had always supposed that Miss Alcott had been born in Concord - that town with which she is so in- timately associated in the minds of us all . I fancied she might ...
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... began by saying , “ In behalf of this book I have but one plea to make , - this , namely , let it be read . " In 1837 Mr. Alcott removed the school from the Masonic Temple to his own house ; and after that removal committed the still ...
... began by saying , “ In behalf of this book I have but one plea to make , - this , namely , let it be read . " In 1837 Mr. Alcott removed the school from the Masonic Temple to his own house ; and after that removal committed the still ...
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... began to be peopled for her with ideal shapes . For a long time she only frightened her sisters by awful tales whispered in bed . It makes one think of those other sisters in the Moorlands of Yorkshire , who used to sit and " make up ...
... began to be peopled for her with ideal shapes . For a long time she only frightened her sisters by awful tales whispered in bed . It makes one think of those other sisters in the Moorlands of Yorkshire , who used to sit and " make up ...
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... began to write " sensation " stories ; following up the first attempts already mentioned with many others . It seems almost incredible , but after a little practice in crowding much wrath , ruin , and revenge into twenty - five ...
... began to write " sensation " stories ; following up the first attempts already mentioned with many others . It seems almost incredible , but after a little practice in crowding much wrath , ruin , and revenge into twenty - five ...
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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.