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" I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer... "
History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution - Page 283
by W. Scott Morgan - 1891 - 776 pages
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volume 2, Issues 33-83

1820 - 856 pages
...commences this sketch; it is an eloquent and a just tribute to the softer sex :— .' ' I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDLITON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDtETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...What a delicious breath marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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Poetical Sketches: The Profession, the Broken Heart, Etc. : with Stanzas for ...

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1824 - 228 pages
...succeeding stanzas originated in the following beautiful passage in the Sketch-Book :— "I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him...
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Arliss's Literary collections

John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...marriage sends forth— The violet hed's not sweeter." Middlcton, HAVE often had occasion to remavk the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...a delicious breath marriage sends forth— The violet bed 's not sweeter! MIDDLE-TON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiih break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ...

Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...woman born," who was not a Frenchman, or a mountebank, could have done the like. THE WIFE. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women...fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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The Young Lady's Own Book: A Manual of Intellectual Improvement and Moral ...

1832 - 410 pages
...looks for the full and perfect manifestation of him in his immediate presence. THE WIFE. I HAYE often had occasion to remark the fortitude, with which women...fortune. Those disasters, which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...
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