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 AgeHarper & brothers, 1876 - 904 páginas |
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... passed into a proverb , that every eminently great man owes his talents as well as virtues to his mother ; yet still to cast contempt on feminine intellect has been and is the fashion with the greater portion of Christendom . - Can a ...
... passed into a proverb , that every eminently great man owes his talents as well as virtues to his mother ; yet still to cast contempt on feminine intellect has been and is the fashion with the greater portion of Christendom . - Can a ...
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... passed from Lybia into Asia , with a powerful army , with which she made great ravages . Opposed by Laomedon , king of Troy , she set his power at defiance ; and , charged with an immense booty , retook the way to her own country . In ...
... passed from Lybia into Asia , with a powerful army , with which she made great ravages . Opposed by Laomedon , king of Troy , she set his power at defiance ; and , charged with an immense booty , retook the way to her own country . In ...
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... passing his life in the hunting - field , caring nothing for the promises made to Abraham ; probably scoffing at the men ... passed at Gerar . Isaac was there guilty of a cowardly false- hood , and seems to have been forgiven , and treat ...
... passing his life in the hunting - field , caring nothing for the promises made to Abraham ; probably scoffing at the men ... passed at Gerar . Isaac was there guilty of a cowardly false- hood , and seems to have been forgiven , and treat ...
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... passed , and she had . no children , she might fear she was not included in the divine prediction . Regardless of self , where the glory and happiness of her adored husband were concerned , with a disinterestedness more than heroic , of ...
... passed , and she had . no children , she might fear she was not included in the divine prediction . Regardless of self , where the glory and happiness of her adored husband were concerned , with a disinterestedness more than heroic , of ...
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... passed , and she was crushed beneath their weight . From her the hill was called the Tarpeian rock , from whence traitors were precipitated by the Romans . TARQUINIA , A DAUGHTER of Tarquinius Priscus , who mar- ried Servius Tullius ...
... passed , and she was crushed beneath their weight . From her the hill was called the Tarpeian rock , from whence traitors were precipitated by the Romans . TARQUINIA , A DAUGHTER of Tarquinius Priscus , who mar- ried Servius Tullius ...
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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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