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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... Character -Her Bright Humor and Keen Sense of the Ridiculous - Begin- ning Her Literary Career - Opening of Her Genius - A Novel Incident in Plymouth Church - The Story of an Opal Ring - How a Little Slave - Child was made Free A ...
... Character -Her Bright Humor and Keen Sense of the Ridiculous - Begin- ning Her Literary Career - Opening of Her Genius - A Novel Incident in Plymouth Church - The Story of an Opal Ring - How a Little Slave - Child was made Free A ...
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... Character- Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney Her Childhood— Early Life and Sur- roundings Memories of Good Old Days - Her Education and Religious Training - Marriage Faculty for Portraying Do- mestic Life - Why She Excels in Painting Perfect Homes ...
... Character- Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney Her Childhood— Early Life and Sur- roundings Memories of Good Old Days - Her Education and Religious Training - Marriage Faculty for Portraying Do- mestic Life - Why She Excels in Painting Perfect Homes ...
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... character , all the little domestic devices and diversions- these are history , as veri- table as it is entertaining . Here is Miss Alcott's portrait of herself at fifteen : " Jo was very tall , thin , and brown , and reminded one of a ...
... character , all the little domestic devices and diversions- these are history , as veri- table as it is entertaining . Here is Miss Alcott's portrait of herself at fifteen : " Jo was very tall , thin , and brown , and reminded one of a ...
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... character . Each teacher had committed to her special care a certain number of scholars , whose character she was to study , whose affection she was to seek , and whom she was to strive by all means in her power to lead to moral and ...
... character . Each teacher had committed to her special care a certain number of scholars , whose character she was to study , whose affection she was to seek , and whom she was to strive by all means in her power to lead to moral and ...
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... character of the woman who stood before him . Abundant means of transportation were furnished , and she was free to go to the relief of soldiers in battle whenever and wherever she would . In the quartermaster's department of the army ...
... character of the woman who stood before him . Abundant means of transportation were furnished , and she was free to go to the relief of soldiers in battle whenever and wherever she would . In the quartermaster's department of the army ...
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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.