Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different Nations and AgesJ. Carpenter, 1834 - 501 páginas |
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... France for the eman- cipation of the Jews from the disabilities under which they had for ages labored . The Abbe , with all his eccentricities , had the heart of a philanthropist . He sent Miss Adams several works on the Jews , which ...
... France for the eman- cipation of the Jews from the disabilities under which they had for ages labored . The Abbe , with all his eccentricities , had the heart of a philanthropist . He sent Miss Adams several works on the Jews , which ...
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... France , whither she made a tour , she met with a most flattering reception from the king , the queen , and the court . She died in 1604 , at Lyons , in the forty- second year of her age . Her husband was overwhelmed with affliction at ...
... France , whither she made a tour , she met with a most flattering reception from the king , the queen , and the court . She died in 1604 , at Lyons , in the forty- second year of her age . Her husband was overwhelmed with affliction at ...
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... France at that time , became a frequent subject of conversation , even with people of the lowest rank . Joan had been taught to hold in detestation the English name , and the ravages of war , extending even to her father's cottage ...
... France at that time , became a frequent subject of conversation , even with people of the lowest rank . Joan had been taught to hold in detestation the English name , and the ravages of war , extending even to her father's cottage ...
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... France . Some years after her decease , Joan was , by a bull of pope Calixtus III . , declared a martyr to her religion , her country , and her king . JANE AUSTEN , a highly gifted and sensible novelist , was born on the sixteenth of ...
... France . Some years after her decease , Joan was , by a bull of pope Calixtus III . , declared a martyr to her religion , her country , and her king . JANE AUSTEN , a highly gifted and sensible novelist , was born on the sixteenth of ...
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... France . On the death of her father , in 1555 , she became queen of Navarre , and her husband took the title of king . They favored the reformed religion , and would probably have openly professed it , had they not feared the resentment ...
... France . On the death of her father , in 1555 , she became queen of Navarre , and her husband took the title of king . They favored the reformed religion , and would probably have openly professed it , had they not feared the resentment ...
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Página 52 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Página 58 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 389 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Página 21 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Página 22 - Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Página 381 - YE say, they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, — Ye may not wash it out.
Página 21 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 303 - THE playful smiles around the dimpled mouth, That happy air of majesty and truth, So would I draw : but oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's...
Página 438 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband : and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Página 95 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine...