The National Exposition Souvenir: What America Owes to WomenLydia Hoyt Farmer C. W. Moulton, 1893 - 505 páginas This souvenir of the Columbian Exposition includes essays on women's accomplishments in the arts, sciences, etc., as well as biographical sketches of individual women. |
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... influence . I here offer also thanks to the editors of the leading magazines and journals , and to many others throughout this country , who have so courteously and promptly responded to requests for information upon various lines of ...
... influence . I here offer also thanks to the editors of the leading magazines and journals , and to many others throughout this country , who have so courteously and promptly responded to requests for information upon various lines of ...
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... Influence of Women in American Politics . 318 Mrs. J. Ellen Foster . CHAPTER XXXIV . Woman's Work in the Church ... 326 Editorial . CHAPTER XXXV . Working Girls ' Clubs . 344 Grace H. Dodge . CHAPTER XXXVI . Woman's National Christian ...
... Influence of Women in American Politics . 318 Mrs. J. Ellen Foster . CHAPTER XXXIV . Woman's Work in the Church ... 326 Editorial . CHAPTER XXXV . Working Girls ' Clubs . 344 Grace H. Dodge . CHAPTER XXXVI . Woman's National Christian ...
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... influences in the communities in which they have attained the freedom of efficiency . American women are usually considered as starting from a clear vantage ground in the race of life . As a body , they have enjoyed better opportunities ...
... influences in the communities in which they have attained the freedom of efficiency . American women are usually considered as starting from a clear vantage ground in the race of life . As a body , they have enjoyed better opportunities ...
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... influence of the Golden Rule of brotherly equality . Though our historical heroes consequently re- ceive less blind worship as personifications of the highest ideals of youthful fancy , unblemished by the imperfections of common mor ...
... influence of the Golden Rule of brotherly equality . Though our historical heroes consequently re- ceive less blind worship as personifications of the highest ideals of youthful fancy , unblemished by the imperfections of common mor ...
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... influence depends largely the spiritual forces which shall determine the status and progress of our nation . If Great opportunities in each individual life come but seldom . lost they are lost forever . " An opportunity passed the ...
... influence depends largely the spiritual forces which shall determine the status and progress of our nation . If Great opportunities in each individual life come but seldom . lost they are lost forever . " An opportunity passed the ...
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Página 314 - And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 73 - Maryland," or fall into the hands of British soldiery, events must determine. Our kind friend, Mr. Carroll, has come to hasten my departure, and in a very bad humor with me, because I insist on waiting until the large picture of General Washington is secured, and it requires to be unscrewed from the wall. This process was found too tedious for these perilous moments; I have ordered the frame to be broken, and the canvas taken out.
Página 288 - I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women ; but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Página 73 - I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage ; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Página 88 - My family, all this while, was at the East. It consisted now of a wife and two children. I saw no chance of supporting them on the Pacific coast out of my pay as an army officer.
Página 26 - I hope that, for my sake, you will become a good American, for that feeling is worthy of every noble heart. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind ; she will become the safe and respected asylum of virtue, integrity, toleration, equality, and tranquil happiness.
Página 24 - From the moment that I first heard the name of America,' I loved her ; from the moment that I learned her struggles for liberty, I was inflamed with the desire of shedding my blood in her cause ; — and the moments that may be expended in her service, whenever they may occur, or in whatever part of the world I may be, shall be considered as the happiest of my existence. I feel more ardently than ever, the desire of deserving the obliging sentiments with which I am...
Página 178 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Página 254 - States, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the Duties of that Office according to Law; and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the Powers, Privileges, and Emoluments to the same of Right appertaining, during the Pleasure of the President of the United States for the Time being.
Página 158 - I was young and romantic then," said she, " and fond of wandering alone by moonlight in the woods of Mount Vernon. Grandmamma thought it wrong and unsafe, and scolded and coaxed me into a promise that I would not wander in the woods again unaccompanied. But I was missing one evening, and was brought home from the interdicted woods to the drawing-room, where the General was walking up and down with his hands behind him, as was his wont. Grandmamma, seated in her great arm-chair, opened a severe reproof.