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 ageSampson Low, Son, and Company 47, Ludgate Hill., 1853 - 888 páginas |
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... seemed to decay daily . His afflictions , labours , fatigues , and perpetual wars , had exhausted him so much , that entering on his seventieth year , his natural heat seemed on the point of being extinguished ; while his mind was as ...
... seemed to decay daily . His afflictions , labours , fatigues , and perpetual wars , had exhausted him so much , that entering on his seventieth year , his natural heat seemed on the point of being extinguished ; while his mind was as ...
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... seemed to increase it . At length she consulted the Del- phic oracle , to learn how to conquer her love ; and being advised to go to Leucadia , the ordinary re- sort of desperate lovers , she , like the poet Sappho , took the fatal leap ...
... seemed to increase it . At length she consulted the Del- phic oracle , to learn how to conquer her love ; and being advised to go to Leucadia , the ordinary re- sort of desperate lovers , she , like the poet Sappho , took the fatal leap ...
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... seemed entirely overcome . Her genius was superior to any re- corded in the history of the Hebrews , from Moses to David , an interval of more than four hundred years ; and scriptural commentators have re- marked , that Deborah alone ...
... seemed entirely overcome . Her genius was superior to any re- corded in the history of the Hebrews , from Moses to David , an interval of more than four hundred years ; and scriptural commentators have re- marked , that Deborah alone ...
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... seemed to inherit the vices of both her parents . SELENA WAS the wife of Antiochus X. , king of Syria , who was put to death by Tigranes , king of Arme- nia . She was the daughter of Ptolemy Physcon , king of Egypt , and according to ...
... seemed to inherit the vices of both her parents . SELENA WAS the wife of Antiochus X. , king of Syria , who was put to death by Tigranes , king of Arme- nia . She was the daughter of Ptolemy Physcon , king of Egypt , and according to ...
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... seemed about to trample the sacred oriflamme of St. Louis in the dust . Charles VII . was a king without a country- all he possessed was a few provinces in the south of France ; and even these seemed likely to be soon wrested from him ...
... seemed about to trample the sacred oriflamme of St. Louis in the dust . Charles VII . was a king without a country- all he possessed was a few provinces in the south of France ; and even these seemed likely to be soon wrested from him ...
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Woman's Record; Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Beginning ... Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Woman's Record; Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Beginning ... Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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