Souvenir Nineteenth Annual Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women Invited & Entertained by the Ladies' Literary Club1877 - Women - 30 pages |
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... follow- ing list should be promptly communicated to the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Association . The business and professional title and full Christian name are also desired . - PUB . COM . Sarah A. Damon , San Jose . CALIFORNIA ...
... follow- ing list should be promptly communicated to the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Association . The business and professional title and full Christian name are also desired . - PUB . COM . Sarah A. Damon , San Jose . CALIFORNIA ...
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... follow their leading . The faculties which distinguish between things which are like and those which are unlike make of us classifiers , and we think of the class , rather than of the individuals which compose it . Thus we are enabled ...
... follow their leading . The faculties which distinguish between things which are like and those which are unlike make of us classifiers , and we think of the class , rather than of the individuals which compose it . Thus we are enabled ...
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... follow the same sad road that her educated English sister has done , of whom Mrs. Lucas , the sister of the statesman , John Bright , said to a friend of mine , that " in planning the future of daughters in England marriage must no ...
... follow the same sad road that her educated English sister has done , of whom Mrs. Lucas , the sister of the statesman , John Bright , said to a friend of mine , that " in planning the future of daughters in England marriage must no ...
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... follow . And then when the feminine employments have been taken out of feminine hands , what will become of the laboring women who ought to be in possession of them and who must earn their living ? Simply the melancholy revolution will ...
... follow . And then when the feminine employments have been taken out of feminine hands , what will become of the laboring women who ought to be in possession of them and who must earn their living ? Simply the melancholy revolution will ...
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... follow the broad beaten track laid for them by hundreds of such stores in England . If I have no other mission in my generation , I have certainly this : --- To entreat American women to believe that only by combining among themselves ...
... follow the broad beaten track laid for them by hundreds of such stores in England . If I have no other mission in my generation , I have certainly this : --- To entreat American women to believe that only by combining among themselves ...
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Page 92 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 97 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...
Page 88 - Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where Truth abides in fulness...
Page 86 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 96 - So, let him wait God's instant men call years ; Meantime hold hard by truth and his great soul, Do out the duty ! Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i
Page 89 - All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him.
Page 86 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain And pronounced on the rest of his handwork — returned him again His creation's approval or censure: I spoke as I saw: I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law. Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked.
Page 89 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole ! " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now than flesh helps soul...
Page 86 - 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 46 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.