Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 25
... woman or famous artist , helped Rome not only to find glory , but to fall later in death . Julius Cæsar and Pompey won fame by their swift destruction of the pirates who had for generations been plundering on sea and shore . Of this ...
... woman or famous artist , helped Rome not only to find glory , but to fall later in death . Julius Cæsar and Pompey won fame by their swift destruction of the pirates who had for generations been plundering on sea and shore . Of this ...
Page 42
... woman . The forehead is not high , as our girls used to think twenty years ago I believe the notion has per- ished that thought made the forehead high ; nor is the hair black , as our girls still think , but brown . The cheek , the chin ...
... woman . The forehead is not high , as our girls used to think twenty years ago I believe the notion has per- ished that thought made the forehead high ; nor is the hair black , as our girls still think , but brown . The cheek , the chin ...
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... woman is the satisfactory explanation , the ample apology . The novel is that part of literature which is decorated , for the most part , by the beauty of woman . It is woman in literature . I mean by this , not that woman is the whole ...
... woman is the satisfactory explanation , the ample apology . The novel is that part of literature which is decorated , for the most part , by the beauty of woman . It is woman in literature . I mean by this , not that woman is the whole ...
Page 45
... woman as a mental and spiritual being , and thus , having held back the cause , the effect failed to put in an appearance . The novel rose up out of the land which emancipated woman ; and ever since that day the novel has been the ...
... woman as a mental and spiritual being , and thus , having held back the cause , the effect failed to put in an appearance . The novel rose up out of the land which emancipated woman ; and ever since that day the novel has been the ...
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... to the most difficult part of my discussion , viz . , that the more the novel gets away from woman the greater the book . This I suppose you will think is heresy , but I expect to show you that 46 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... to the most difficult part of my discussion , viz . , that the more the novel gets away from woman the greater the book . This I suppose you will think is heresy , but I expect to show you that 46 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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