Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Creation to A.D. 1854. Arranged in Four Eras. With Selections from Female Writers of Every AgeHarper & brothers, 1970 - 896 páginas |
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... seemed to speak the awfulness of her situation . To retire to bed , however , unsatisfied on such a point , would be vain , since sleep must be impossi- ble with the consciousness of a cabinet so myste- riously closed in her immediate ...
... seemed to speak the awfulness of her situation . To retire to bed , however , unsatisfied on such a point , would be vain , since sleep must be impossi- ble with the consciousness of a cabinet so myste- riously closed in her immediate ...
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... seemed to rack her frame almost beyond its power of endurance , and life was held by the feeblest tenure ; but when a year and a half old , she seemed to rally ; the dangerous symptoms subsided ; and at twenty months old , she was per ...
... seemed to rack her frame almost beyond its power of endurance , and life was held by the feeblest tenure ; but when a year and a half old , she seemed to rally ; the dangerous symptoms subsided ; and at twenty months old , she was per ...
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... seemed like the incarnation of some pure ethereal spirit , which a sigh too roughly breathed , might dissolve into its kindred air ; yet to this sylphide elegance of spheral beauty was united all that symmetrical contour which ...
... seemed like the incarnation of some pure ethereal spirit , which a sigh too roughly breathed , might dissolve into its kindred air ; yet to this sylphide elegance of spheral beauty was united all that symmetrical contour which ...
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Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women: From the Creation ... Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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