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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... rest of the world had dreamed of calling her middle - aged . She repre- sents Livy as groaning with rheumatism and neuralgia , nurs- ing her woes , and croaking as dismally as any other raven ; but you cannot help finding out that she ...
... rest of the world had dreamed of calling her middle - aged . She repre- sents Livy as groaning with rheumatism and neuralgia , nurs- ing her woes , and croaking as dismally as any other raven ; but you cannot help finding out that she ...
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... rest on . " And when her failing breath made it difficult to speak , she whispered , with a lovely , loving look , " A smile is as good as a prayer , " and soon , waving her hand to the picture of her absent daughter , then in Europe ...
... rest on . " And when her failing breath made it difficult to speak , she whispered , with a lovely , loving look , " A smile is as good as a prayer , " and soon , waving her hand to the picture of her absent daughter , then in Europe ...
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... rest Colonel Prevost , who observed on seeing me take my station , ' here is another poor fellow ! ' but the waves rolled heavily against us , and often dashing its spray fifty feet over our heads , gradually swept those who had taken ...
... rest Colonel Prevost , who observed on seeing me take my station , ' here is another poor fellow ! ' but the waves rolled heavily against us , and often dashing its spray fifty feet over our heads , gradually swept those who had taken ...
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... rest at night at her usual hour . The next morning , as she did not appear , her brother entered her room and found her in a heavy stupor , from which it was impossible to rouse her , and in the course of a few hours , on Sunday , May ...
... rest at night at her usual hour . The next morning , as she did not appear , her brother entered her room and found her in a heavy stupor , from which it was impossible to rouse her , and in the course of a few hours , on Sunday , May ...
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... rest . She went to Washington , where she had relatives , for change of scene and a more favorable climate . Just at this time , through the treachery of clerks , troubles had arisen in the Patent Office . Secrets had been betrayed ...
... rest . She went to Washington , where she had relatives , for change of scene and a more favorable climate . Just at this time , through the treachery of clerks , troubles had arisen in the Patent Office . Secrets had been betrayed ...
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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.