Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning" Till A.D. 1850. Arranged in Four Eras. With Selections from Female Writers of Every Age |
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To her virtues she added beauty , talents , prudence , an extraordinary eloquence , and a generosity and magnanimity of mind truly Roman . Unmoved by all reverses of fortune , she showed herself equally dignified when wife to Cæsar ...
To her virtues she added beauty , talents , prudence , an extraordinary eloquence , and a generosity and magnanimity of mind truly Roman . Unmoved by all reverses of fortune , she showed herself equally dignified when wife to Cæsar ...
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Yet how few are they who have improved , to the same advantage , the talents , with which they have really been endowed ! And , yet more , how few are the fathers and mothers who think these riches of the immortal mind at all equivalent ...
Yet how few are they who have improved , to the same advantage , the talents , with which they have really been endowed ! And , yet more , how few are the fathers and mothers who think these riches of the immortal mind at all equivalent ...
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On the death - bed of Louis , his jealousy of his daughter , then only twenty - six , gave place to confidence in her talents : having constituted her husband lieutenant - general of the kingdom , he bequeathed the reins of empire ...
On the death - bed of Louis , his jealousy of his daughter , then only twenty - six , gave place to confidence in her talents : having constituted her husband lieutenant - general of the kingdom , he bequeathed the reins of empire ...
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She is , indeed , Lorenzo , a surprising woman , as well from her acquirements in her own language , as in the Latin ; and , in my opinion , she may be called handsome . I left her , astonished at her talents .
She is , indeed , Lorenzo , a surprising woman , as well from her acquirements in her own language , as in the Latin ; and , in my opinion , she may be called handsome . I left her , astonished at her talents .
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She was born in 1405 , and educated in the court of the count de Foix , where she gave an early proof of literary and poetical talent , by translating , when eleven years old , one of Petrarch's Canzoni , with a harmony of style ...
She was born in 1405 , and educated in the court of the count de Foix , where she gave an early proof of literary and poetical talent , by translating , when eleven years old , one of Petrarch's Canzoni , with a harmony of style ...
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Página 128 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Página 349 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er. When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 349 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Página 9 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Página 126 - Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Página 38 - God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water ; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Página 160 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 428 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Página 127 - He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away. He hath holpen His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy ; as He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Página 6 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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| Título | Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning" Till A.D. 1850. Arranged in Four Eras. With Selections from Female Writers of Every Age |
| Autor | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale |
| Editor | Harper & brothers, 1853 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 9 Jul. 2007 |
| Largo | 886 páginas |
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