Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present GenerationS.M. Betts, 1869 - 618 pagini |
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Pagina v
... influence of woman , and her share in the privileges and responsibilities of human life . In selecting the subjects for the sketches here presented , regard has been had not only to individual excellence or eminence , but also to a ...
... influence of woman , and her share in the privileges and responsibilities of human life . In selecting the subjects for the sketches here presented , regard has been had not only to individual excellence or eminence , but also to a ...
Pagina 39
... influenced his children's later career . He married Susannah Rand , of whom it is only recorded that " she had a simple , loving heart , and a spirit busy in doing good . ” They had six children , of whom Lydia Maria was the youngest ...
... influenced his children's later career . He married Susannah Rand , of whom it is only recorded that " she had a simple , loving heart , and a spirit busy in doing good . ” They had six children , of whom Lydia Maria was the youngest ...
Pagina 40
... influenced her still more . • " A dear good sister has she been to me ; would that I had been half as good a brother to her ! " This he wrote , in self- depreciation , long after . While he was fitting for college , a process which took ...
... influenced her still more . • " A dear good sister has she been to me ; would that I had been half as good a brother to her ! " This he wrote , in self- depreciation , long after . While he was fitting for college , a process which took ...
Pagina 42
... influences around him , even now , to chasten his style or keep him up to any high literary standard , it is plain how very little she could then have found . Accordingly " Hobomok " seems very crude in execution , very improbable in ...
... influences around him , even now , to chasten his style or keep him up to any high literary standard , it is plain how very little she could then have found . Accordingly " Hobomok " seems very crude in execution , very improbable in ...
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... put , the statements well guarded . The successive chapters treat of the history of slavery , its comparative aspect in different ages and na- tions , its influence on politics , the profitableness of 48 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE .
... put , the statements well guarded . The successive chapters treat of the history of slavery , its comparative aspect in different ages and na- tions , its influence on politics , the profitableness of 48 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE .
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Pagina 627 - I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: " As ye deal with My contemners so with you My grace shall deal: " Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel! Since God is marching on.
Pagina 627 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on! In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Pagina 225 - Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam...
Pagina 422 - Now you are Queen of the mightiest land of Europe, in your hand lies the happiness of millions. May Heaven assist you and strengthen you with its strength in that high but difficult task. I hope that your reign may be long, happy, and glorious, and that your efforts may be rewarded by the thankfulness and love of your subjects.
Pagina 346 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Pagina 432 - his care of her was like that of a mother, nor could there be a kinder, wiser, or more judicious nurse.
Pagina 233 - Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age . That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say ' Behold, —behold the paps we all have sucked ! This bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating : this is living art, Which thus presents and thus records true life.
Pagina 325 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to naught, things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.
Pagina 591 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Pagina 626 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.