Ella Lincoln: Or, Western Prairie Life, an AutobiographyJ. French, 1857 - 353 pages |
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... woman , rode him at the peril of her life . She risked herself in the saddle a few times ; and then the result of her temerity was a broken arm , and al- most uncounted bruises . When the Doctor rode , he went pacing along like a lady's ...
... woman , rode him at the peril of her life . She risked herself in the saddle a few times ; and then the result of her temerity was a broken arm , and al- most uncounted bruises . When the Doctor rode , he went pacing along like a lady's ...
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... woman's most frivolous age , with the means at my disposal for gratifying a fondness for dress , I longed for admiration and the eclat of being a belle . Both parents seemed pleased with this new phase of their daughter's ambition , and ...
... woman's most frivolous age , with the means at my disposal for gratifying a fondness for dress , I longed for admiration and the eclat of being a belle . Both parents seemed pleased with this new phase of their daughter's ambition , and ...
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... WOMAN puts a strange , wild faith in the being pre- ordered by Heaven to be her guardian and guide through life . Few marriages are the result of pru- dence , few of convenience . I despise that sickly sen- timentality which feeds upon ...
... WOMAN puts a strange , wild faith in the being pre- ordered by Heaven to be her guardian and guide through life . Few marriages are the result of pru- dence , few of convenience . I despise that sickly sen- timentality which feeds upon ...
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... woman's rights , " and condemn " literary ladies " en masse , and asked me , as a " particular favor to him , not to write poetry , " -ME , author of that " Tribute to the Memory of old Cesar ! " And , after trying to annihilate him ...
... woman's rights , " and condemn " literary ladies " en masse , and asked me , as a " particular favor to him , not to write poetry , " -ME , author of that " Tribute to the Memory of old Cesar ! " And , after trying to annihilate him ...
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... woman , seemed pleased to see us , and chatted like a mag - pie ; the host dis- pensed pork and gravy like a gentleman . He had been a merchant in New York ; his wife was educated and refined in her manners . Here I might insert a ...
... woman , seemed pleased to see us , and chatted like a mag - pie ; the host dis- pensed pork and gravy like a gentleman . He had been a merchant in New York ; his wife was educated and refined in her manners . Here I might insert a ...
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Ella Lincoln, Or Western Prairie Life: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Eliza Ann Woodruff Hopkins No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 236 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 41 - Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence. This further consolation yet secure I carry hence; though all...
Page 154 - Her lot is on you !— silent tears to weep, And patient smiles to wear through suffering's hour, And sumless riches, from affection's deep, To pour on broken reeds— a wasted shower ! And to make idols, and to find them clay, And to bewail that worship — therefore pray!
Page 32 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 268 - Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it not to me And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 106 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Page 156 - THERE'S not a look, a word of thine My soul hath e'er forgot ; Thou ne'er hast bid a ringlet shine, Nor given thy locks one graceful twine, Which I remember not...
Page 31 - I've mingled with rapturous zest; For how slight is the touch that will...
Page 357 - He that writes, Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends : there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drest.
Page 66 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.