The Ladies' Repository, Volume 1J.F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, 1841 - Methodist Episcopal Church The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. |
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... bright world before us - let us learn How clear the fountains of instruction flow From nature's free and unexhausted urn ; And from the toil of study let us go To read her priceless lessons , and to view Upon heaven's distant realms of ...
... bright world before us - let us learn How clear the fountains of instruction flow From nature's free and unexhausted urn ; And from the toil of study let us go To read her priceless lessons , and to view Upon heaven's distant realms of ...
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... bright , Spreading round us thy hues so gorgeously wreathed , To sombre the scene on which summer has breathed . Stir up the deep forests , shake off the dry leaves ; They may serve for the garland the weird woman weaves ; But bright be ...
... bright , Spreading round us thy hues so gorgeously wreathed , To sombre the scene on which summer has breathed . Stir up the deep forests , shake off the dry leaves ; They may serve for the garland the weird woman weaves ; But bright be ...
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... bright constellations so profusely set in the clear traitors to their country . The bloody flag of rebellion and moonless sky . waved over the ramparts of her ancient forts . The majority of her citizens had been driven from their ...
... bright constellations so profusely set in the clear traitors to their country . The bloody flag of rebellion and moonless sky . waved over the ramparts of her ancient forts . The majority of her citizens had been driven from their ...
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... bright example . and went , and like the young flowers , that idolized one Few of any sex have excelled her as a writer or a phi- perished with autumn's blighted leaf . She was laid in lanthropist , who has manifested the most mature ...
... bright example . and went , and like the young flowers , that idolized one Few of any sex have excelled her as a writer or a phi- perished with autumn's blighted leaf . She was laid in lanthropist , who has manifested the most mature ...
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... bright world above , hath led me often the blight of earthly joy , had almost claimed her away from all earthly things , and my spirit has bowed for its own , and threatened our loved one with an early grave . A timely journey to her ...
... bright world above , hath led me often the blight of earthly joy , had almost claimed her away from all earthly things , and my spirit has bowed for its own , and threatened our loved one with an early grave . A timely journey to her ...
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Page 137 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 168 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 178 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 254 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 161 - And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession, in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Page 85 - For I am the Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Page 254 - These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them, they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Page 254 - The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever : the LORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth : he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Page 247 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 17 - He that spared not his own Son, but freely gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?