Forgotten Ladies: Nine Portraits from the American Family AlbumJ.B. Lippincott, 1928 - 307 páginas |
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Forgotten Ladies: Nine Portraits from the American Family Album Richardson Little Wright Vista de fragmentos - 1928 |
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Página 280 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Página 16 - Their au naturel costume evidently was a bit too scanty even for a Frenchman of the Regency. The gifts implied a hint directly pointed at their robust nudity. To each chief was given "a Habit completely French, being a blue coat with silver buttons, red breeches and hose, silver Lac'd hats, some with red and others with blue feathers, six ruffled shirts, six necks, etc. A Savage Habit, consisting of a Cloth Wrapper, five Quarters wide, with Silver Lace two inches above the List, which is left there...
Página 90 - You, and each of you, are hereby required to take the body of John Wesley, clerk. And bring him before one of the bailiffs of the said town, to answer the complaint of William Williamson and Sophia his wife, for defaming the said Sophia, and refusing to administer to her the sacrament of the Lord's supper, in a public congregation, without cause...
Página 136 - Disclosures as Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings during a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Blue Nun in the Hotel Dieu at Montreal.
Página 190 - North wood, or Life North and South, Showing the True Character of Both,
Página 85 - In the beginning of December, I advised Miss Sophy to sup earlier, and not immediately before she went to bed. She did so ; and on this little circumstance, what an inconceivable train of consequences depend ! Not only, ' All the color of remaining life,' for her ; but perhaps all my happiness too !
Página 146 - Then followed a stream of books with such lurid titles as "Open Convents," "Secrets of Female Convents Disclosed," "Thrilling Mysteries of a Convent Revealed," "The School Girl in France, or the Snares of Popery," "The Female Jesuit,
Página 79 - I find, Miss Sophy, I can't take fire into my bosom, and not be burnt. I am therefore retiring for a while to desire the direction of God. Join with me, my friend, in fervent prayer, that He would show me what is best to be done.
Página 69 - Williamson, a person not remarkable for handsomeness, neither for greatness, neither for wit, or knowledge, or sense, and least of all for religion ; and on Saturday, March 12th, they were married at Parrysbury.
Página 102 - It is not improbable that the severe pressure of this bandage served to compress the bosom, while the waist had every natural convenience for augmentation.