Woman's Work in AmericaAnnie Nathan Meyer H. Holt and Company, 1891 - 457 páginas |
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... centuries have passed , the changing years merely ring different tones upon the same theme . We may acknowl- edge that the day is past when it is necessary seriously to plead the capacity of woman to accomplish certain things ; that ...
... centuries have passed , the changing years merely ring different tones upon the same theme . We may acknowl- edge that the day is past when it is necessary seriously to plead the capacity of woman to accomplish certain things ; that ...
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... century , and especially during the last fifteen years , cannot but be of great importance and value . The cruel kindness of the old doctrine that women should be worked for , and should not work , that their influence should be felt ...
... century , and especially during the last fifteen years , cannot but be of great importance and value . The cruel kindness of the old doctrine that women should be worked for , and should not work , that their influence should be felt ...
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... century and a half long , though in 1771 , Hartford , Conn . , opened its common schools to every child , and taught even the girls read- ing , writing , spelling , and the catechism , and , rarely , how to add . The boys , meantime ...
... century and a half long , though in 1771 , Hartford , Conn . , opened its common schools to every child , and taught even the girls read- ing , writing , spelling , and the catechism , and , rarely , how to add . The boys , meantime ...
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... centuries , and that of the six hundred who first landed on the coast of Massachusetts , one in thirty was a graduate ... century : “ We are permitted no books but such as tend to the weakening and effeminating our minds . We are taught ...
... centuries , and that of the six hundred who first landed on the coast of Massachusetts , one in thirty was a graduate ... century : “ We are permitted no books but such as tend to the weakening and effeminating our minds . We are taught ...
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... century earlier . He says , " The females knit or net the nets for sportsmen : " Fine ferne stitch , finny stitch , new stitch , and chain stitch , Brave broad stitch , fischer stitch , Irish stitch , and queen stitch , The Spanish ...
... century earlier . He says , " The females knit or net the nets for sportsmen : " Fine ferne stitch , finny stitch , new stitch , and chain stitch , Brave broad stitch , fischer stitch , Irish stitch , and queen stitch , The Spanish ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admission of women admit women American Annie Nathan Meyer appointed Association Blackwell Boston Boston University boys century Chicago Christian church co-education Columbia College committee Court degree education of women Elizabeth Blackwell Emily Blackwell England equal established factory faculty favor female girls graduates Harvard Harvard College high school higher education hospital hundred Indian industrial influence institutions instruction intellectual interest Julia Ward Knights of Labor labor ladies lectures Legislature Lucretia Mott male Mary Mary Putnam Jacobi Massachusetts Medical School medicine ment Miss moral Non-sectarian number of women Oberlin obstetrics open to women organized patients Philadelphia practice present president profession pupils received says secure Seminary social society South teachers Territory tion town trustees United University vote wages Wellesley College woman women physicians writes York young women
Pasajes populares
Página 318 - The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 224 - Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood.
Página 259 - Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
Página 224 - Assembly, that no person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation, profession or employment (except military) on account of sex ; provided, that this act shall not be construed to affect the eligibility of any person to an elective office.
Página 382 - President of the United States, and to the Senate and House of Representatives...
Página 231 - Against the peace and dignity of the same." § 27. There shall be elected in each county in this state, in such districts as the general assembly may direct, by the qualified electors thereof, a competent number of justices of the peace, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, and who shall perform such duties, receive such compensation, and exercise such jurisdiction, as may be prescribed by law.
Página 259 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
Página 12 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 28 - But young ladies, who ought only to have such a general tincture of knowledge as to make them agreeable companions to a man of sense...
Página 236 - Commonwealth shall respectively have power to admit a competent number of persons of an honest disposition, and learned in the law, to practice as attorneys in their respective courts.
Referencias a este libro
Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History Barbara Jean Harris Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
Give Us Bread But Give Us Roses: Working Women's Consciousness in the United ... Sarah Eisenstein Sin vista previa disponible - 1983 |