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 23
... Never was there such mismanagement . While the army were in this condition they suddenly found themselves reduced to a short allowance of food , and for nine days there was no tea or coffee . The reason was , that the country roads , by ...
... Never was there such mismanagement . While the army were in this condition they suddenly found themselves reduced to a short allowance of food , and for nine days there was no tea or coffee . The reason was , that the country roads , by ...
Pagina 31
... never forget the rapture of fever patients over a bunch of bright - colored flowers . I remember ( in my own case ) a nosegay of wild flowers being sent me , and from that moment recovery be- coming more rapid . " By this time ...
... never forget the rapture of fever patients over a bunch of bright - colored flowers . I remember ( in my own case ) a nosegay of wild flowers being sent me , and from that moment recovery be- coming more rapid . " By this time ...
Pagina 32
... never to be startled , dis- turbed , or fidgeted , is most admirable and affecting . She seems to have entered into the very soul of sick people , and to have as lively a sense of how they feel 32 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE .
... never to be startled , dis- turbed , or fidgeted , is most admirable and affecting . She seems to have entered into the very soul of sick people , and to have as lively a sense of how they feel 32 EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE .
Pagina 33
... never hurt any one . " Better , she remarks , shut the windows all day than all night . She maintains , too , that the reason why people now - a - days , especially ladies , are less robust than they were formerly , is because they pass ...
... never hurt any one . " Better , she remarks , shut the windows all day than all night . She maintains , too , that the reason why people now - a - days , especially ladies , are less robust than they were formerly , is because they pass ...
Pagina 34
... never with a bonnet on except to go to church ; these things entirely account for a fact so often seen of a great - grandmother who was a tower of physical vigor , descending into a grandmother , perhaps a little less vigorous , but ...
... never with a bonnet on except to go to church ; these things entirely account for a fact so often seen of a great - grandmother who was a tower of physical vigor , descending into a grandmother , perhaps a little less vigorous , but ...
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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.