Colonial Women of Affairs: A Study of Women in Business and the Professions in America Before 1776Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 203 páginas |
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... Madam Sarah Knight , of Boston , traveled on horseback from Boston to New Haven , and thence to New York , returning in 1 Quarterly Courts of Essex County , vol . I. p . 123 . 2 Ibid . , vol . III , p . 319 . 8 Ibid . , vol . III , p ...
... Madam Sarah Knight , of Boston , traveled on horseback from Boston to New Haven , and thence to New York , returning in 1 Quarterly Courts of Essex County , vol . I. p . 123 . 2 Ibid . , vol . III , p . 319 . 8 Ibid . , vol . III , p ...
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... Madam Knight will be considered in a later chapter , but testimony regarding the inns of the day may be found in the diary which she kept on her journey . For part of the journey she found fellow travelers , and for other parts she ...
... Madam Knight will be considered in a later chapter , but testimony regarding the inns of the day may be found in the diary which she kept on her journey . For part of the journey she found fellow travelers , and for other parts she ...
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... Madam Knight 3 came to an ordinary , were well entertained by a woman about seventy and vantage , but of as sound Intellectuals as one of seventeen . She entertained Mr. Wheeler with some passages of a wedding awhile ago at a place hard ...
... Madam Knight 3 came to an ordinary , were well entertained by a woman about seventy and vantage , but of as sound Intellectuals as one of seventeen . She entertained Mr. Wheeler with some passages of a wedding awhile ago at a place hard ...
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... Madam Knight was then a widow , although only thirty - eight years old , and as she never changed her condition , she may have been less sympathetic with the aged bridegroom than was the hostess . The next landlady encountered was less ...
... Madam Knight was then a widow , although only thirty - eight years old , and as she never changed her condition , she may have been less sympathetic with the aged bridegroom than was the hostess . The next landlady encountered was less ...
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... Madam Usher carved , Mrs. Hannah Greenleaf ; Ellis , Cowell , Wheeler , Johnson , and her daughter Cole , Mrs. Hill our Nurse's 2 Ibid . , p . 51 . 1 Sewall , vol . II , p . 51 . mother , Nurse Johnson , Hill , Hawkins , Mrs. 64 ...
... Madam Usher carved , Mrs. Hannah Greenleaf ; Ellis , Cowell , Wheeler , Johnson , and her daughter Cole , Mrs. Hill our Nurse's 2 Ibid . , p . 51 . 1 Sewall , vol . II , p . 51 . mother , Nurse Johnson , Hill , Hawkins , Mrs. 64 ...
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Página 122 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Página 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 162 - 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 xvii - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such. things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Página 130 - Cannoo to carry me to tother side, and hee rid thro' and Led my hors. The Cannoo was very small and shallow, so that when we were in she seem'd redy to take in water, which greatly terrified mee, and caused me to be very circumspect, sitting with my hands fast on each side, my eyes stedy, not daring so much as to lodg my...
Página 125 - Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest; There lay that store I counted best: My pleasant things in ashes lye, And them behold no more shall I. Under thy roof no guest shall sitt, Nor at thy Table eat a bitt.
Página 122 - And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your praise...
Página 16 - Intituled to some of the Sweets of it; but we find ourselves entirely neglected, while the Husbands that live in our Neighborhood are daily invited to Dine at Court; we have the Vanity to think we can be full as Entertaining, and make as brave a Defence in Case of an Invasion and perhaps not turn Taile so soon as some of them.
Página 126 - My heart was so heavy before that I could scarce speak or go in the path and yet now so light that I could run. My strength seemed to come again and...
Página 112 - English terms. Her father has a plant called after him, Coldenia; suppose you should call this Coldenella, or any other name that might distinguish her among your genera.