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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... Sewall notes : 2 This day Mrs. Averys shop , and Christian Hef- ridge's shop , shut , by reason of the Goods in them Attached . Not until well into the eighteenth century was advertising in the newspapers practiced to any extent ...
... Sewall notes : 2 This day Mrs. Averys shop , and Christian Hef- ridge's shop , shut , by reason of the Goods in them Attached . Not until well into the eighteenth century was advertising in the newspapers practiced to any extent ...
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... Sewall ; he chronicles the many births , illnesses , and deaths of his own large family , and often of his neighbors ' , and usually mentions the officiating nurse , and midwife or doctor . He gives incidental glimpses of several 1 ...
... Sewall ; he chronicles the many births , illnesses , and deaths of his own large family , and often of his neighbors ' , and usually mentions the officiating nurse , and midwife or doctor . He gives incidental glimpses of several 1 ...
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... 21 , ... Died in Nurse Hill's lap . Nurse Hill washed and layed him out . 1 Sewall , vol . 1 , p . 40 . Ibid . , pp . 113-14 . 2 Ibid . , p . III . Thursday , Dec. 24th , 1685. We followed little Henry 63 THE MINISTERING ANGEL.
... 21 , ... Died in Nurse Hill's lap . Nurse Hill washed and layed him out . 1 Sewall , vol . 1 , p . 40 . Ibid . , pp . 113-14 . 2 Ibid . , p . III . Thursday , Dec. 24th , 1685. We followed little Henry 63 THE MINISTERING ANGEL.
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... Sewall several times mentions her being called away from his house to attend others . A long list of nurses is named . The following entry regarding one has a very human ring : ' Jan. 13 , 1701-2 . I prayed earnestly by myself and in ...
... Sewall several times mentions her being called away from his house to attend others . A long list of nurses is named . The following entry regarding one has a very human ring : ' Jan. 13 , 1701-2 . I prayed earnestly by myself and in ...
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... Sewall family received the re- ward of affection also . On December 9 , 1713 , the Judge notes his attending the funeral of Nurse Hannah Cowell 2- " Was a very pious woman , and a true lover of the first ways of New England , " and the ...
... Sewall family received the re- ward of affection also . On December 9 , 1713 , the Judge notes his attending the funeral of Nurse Hannah Cowell 2- " Was a very pious woman , and a true lover of the first ways of New England , " and the ...
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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.