Willing hearts and ready hands; or, The labours and triumphs of earnest women1869 |
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... poor girl was ready to sink upon the floor , and was only pre- vented from doing so by the voice of her father , who comforted her in a low tone , pointing as he did so to heaven . When the sentence was about to be pronounced , it was ...
... poor girl was ready to sink upon the floor , and was only pre- vented from doing so by the voice of her father , who comforted her in a low tone , pointing as he did so to heaven . When the sentence was about to be pronounced , it was ...
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... poor exchange for the freedom of girlish days ; and the worst feelings of her heart rise against the constraint and the im- agined tyranny of her condition . The husband , when returning home from the duties and exercises of his calling ...
... poor exchange for the freedom of girlish days ; and the worst feelings of her heart rise against the constraint and the im- agined tyranny of her condition . The husband , when returning home from the duties and exercises of his calling ...
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... poor and meanly conditioned , few neces- sities and fewer luxuries - care and forethought , plans and contrivances , daily expedients ; and yet in that home there may be happiness denied to the dweller in a palace . " To be happy at ...
... poor and meanly conditioned , few neces- sities and fewer luxuries - care and forethought , plans and contrivances , daily expedients ; and yet in that home there may be happiness denied to the dweller in a palace . " To be happy at ...
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... poor , the thought of home and those at home . nerve to fresh endurance and renewed effort . The fine spirit is not less soiled and sullied in its contact with grosser natures than before , but there is the power of resolution , the ...
... poor , the thought of home and those at home . nerve to fresh endurance and renewed effort . The fine spirit is not less soiled and sullied in its contact with grosser natures than before , but there is the power of resolution , the ...
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... poor children from starving . I must have the six dollars to - day or to - morrow . Pray hear me , dear sir . ' Here she took a small parcel out of her pocket , untied it , and said , ' There is a book encased with silver ; my husband ...
... poor children from starving . I must have the six dollars to - day or to - morrow . Pray hear me , dear sir . ' Here she took a small parcel out of her pocket , untied it , and said , ' There is a book encased with silver ; my husband ...
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Page 90 - 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!
Page 285 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 12 - Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced. Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 91 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Page 92 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 13 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 80 - Sooner the sun from his bright sphere shall sink, Than we, ungrateful, leave thee in that day, To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee, tottering on the grave's cold brink. Banish the thought ! — where'er our steps may roam, O'er smiling plains, or wastes without a tree...
Page 70 - Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.
Page 148 - Papa, I've been writing a book. Have you, my dear? Yes, and I want you to read it. I am afraid it will try my eyes too much. But it is not in manuscript: it is printed. My dear! you've never thought of the expense it will be! It will be almost sure to be a loss, for how can you get a book sold? No one knows you or your name.
Page 82 - Simon ! Simon ! Satan hath desired to have thee that he may sift thee as wheat, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not...