54-40 Or FightBobbs-Merrill, 1909 - 402 pages |
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Page 400 - I will add that my own father, although but a humble soldier, fought in the same great cause, and went through hardships and privations sevenfold worse than death, in order to bequeath it to his children. It is my inheritance. It was my protector in infancy, and the pride and glory of my riper years ; and, Mr. President, although it may be assailed by traitors on every side, by the grace of God, under its shadow I will die...
Page 126 - The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it.
Page 63 - WITHOUT woman the two extremities of this life would be destitute of succor, and the middle would be devoid of pleasure. Without a mother's care, our lives would generally terminate in our infancy; without a female companion in middle life, this world would seem as a desert; the most endearing ties which bind us to it, would be dissolved ; and when our end approaches...
Page 152 - ... Good ! Oh, but I am glad to be far from that goal. No woman who is absolutely and entirely good, in the ordinary sense of the word, gets a man's most fervent, passionate love, the love beside which all other feelings pale. A wear-and-tear affection, perhaps, tideless and dull, may be her portion, but it is not for good women that men have fought battles, given their lives, and staked their souls. To be good, to know beforehand that, under any given circumstances, one would do the right thing,...
Page 185 - THERE will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.
Page 12 - Nature's fault, not man's. Aspasia and Adelina Patti were born, not made. In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or of great beauty has done what she chose ; and if the majority of women have led obscure lives, so have the majority of men. The chief part of humanity is insignificant, whether it be male or female. In most people there is very little character indeed, and as little mind. Those who have much never...
Page 254 - THE world was sad ! the garden was a wild, The man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled.
Page 263 - The woman must not belong to herself ; she is bound to alien destinies. But she performs her part best who can take freely of her own choice the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity and love. THE VOICE OF FATE. Piccol. in. 8. 82. 3)et 3ug beS ^erjcua ift bc<S <Sd)irffal
Page 398 - There are those who will accept always the solemn asseverations of politicians, who by word of mouth or pen assert that this or that party made our country, wrote its history. Such as they might smile if told that not even men, much less politicians, have written all our story as a nation ; yet any who smile at woman's influence in American history do so in ignorance of the truth.