Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different Nations and Ages |
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... head of female writers in our country ; and whose taste is only surpassed by her judgment , and whose piety consecrates what her muse inspires . " Man might be initiated into the varieties and mysteries of needle - work ; taught to have ...
... head of female writers in our country ; and whose taste is only surpassed by her judgment , and whose piety consecrates what her muse inspires . " Man might be initiated into the varieties and mysteries of needle - work ; taught to have ...
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... head and foot of every grave , and waves with a mournful solemnity over it . These devoted grounds possess an inviolable sanctity . The ravages of war never reach them ; and victory and defeat equally respect the limits of their domain ...
... head and foot of every grave , and waves with a mournful solemnity over it . These devoted grounds possess an inviolable sanctity . The ravages of war never reach them ; and victory and defeat equally respect the limits of their domain ...
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... head well formed , but her person could never have been commanding . That one of no graces of person , or charm of manners , should have inspired so much respect and deference , could only be accounted for by the fact , that she lived ...
... head well formed , but her person could never have been commanding . That one of no graces of person , or charm of manners , should have inspired so much respect and deference , could only be accounted for by the fact , that she lived ...
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... head the assailants , and to plant her victorious standard on the enemy's ramparts . At an attack on Jergeau , she descended into the fosse , where she was beaten to the ground , by a blow on her head from a stone , but quickly ...
... head the assailants , and to plant her victorious standard on the enemy's ramparts . At an attack on Jergeau , she descended into the fosse , where she was beaten to the ground , by a blow on her head from a stone , but quickly ...
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... head of the army which marched against him . In the first battle that ensued , she was exposed to much personal danger . According to the Arabian writers , the hands of seventy men were cut off , who successively held the bridle of her ...
... head of the army which marched against him . In the first battle that ensued , she was exposed to much personal danger . According to the Arabian writers , the hands of seventy men were cut off , who successively held the bridle of her ...
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Page 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.
Page 58 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 389 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...