The Literary Women of England: Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; with Extracts from Their Works, and Critical RemarksSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 564 pages |
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... person can have failed to admire many instances of the wealth of unwritten wisdom thus brought to bear upon domestic conduct . Much more valu- able results may therefore reasonably be expected from the records of our choicest women's ...
... person can have failed to admire many instances of the wealth of unwritten wisdom thus brought to bear upon domestic conduct . Much more valu- able results may therefore reasonably be expected from the records of our choicest women's ...
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... persons who sit to him , so have I endeavoured to produce original likenesses of character , though often in the earlier chapters constrained perforce to piece them out as Pro- fessor Owen does the fragments of extinct species . Deeming ...
... persons who sit to him , so have I endeavoured to produce original likenesses of character , though often in the earlier chapters constrained perforce to piece them out as Pro- fessor Owen does the fragments of extinct species . Deeming ...
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... persons , eager for congenial information and ready to shape their yet ductile natures after the noblest models , are easily repulsed by difficulties , and cast back again upon the callous shows of outer life in conventional usages ...
... persons , eager for congenial information and ready to shape their yet ductile natures after the noblest models , are easily repulsed by difficulties , and cast back again upon the callous shows of outer life in conventional usages ...
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... Persons , ' includes a large proportionate number of ladies and gentlewomen , but extends only from the year 1600 to the year 1741 . This elaborate collection , published by subscription in the year 1741 , relates solely to natives of ...
... Persons , ' includes a large proportionate number of ladies and gentlewomen , but extends only from the year 1600 to the year 1741 . This elaborate collection , published by subscription in the year 1741 , relates solely to natives of ...
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... person must be fleshed with some pleasant passages . " It consists with the primary purpose and very nature of the present work , that these " pleasant passages " should be extracted from the writings of the persons of whom the ...
... person must be fleshed with some pleasant passages . " It consists with the primary purpose and very nature of the present work , that these " pleasant passages " should be extracted from the writings of the persons of whom the ...
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