 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...  The Ashlar - Page 366edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Michael Crotty - 1850 - 488 pages
...overwhelming reverses of fortune ; those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the...touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness, and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...overwhelming reverse 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...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be morco touching than to beCLEVEK IDIOTS. — Paradoxical as this title sounds, we know not how better... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...POWER. TIIOSK disasters winch break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate Mm in the dust, seem to cull forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be moro touching than to behold a salt and teinter female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...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...touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 pages
...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...touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, seem to call forth the energies of the gentler sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their...soft and tender female, who has been all weakness and dependance, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the 2 energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity...touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and de3 pendence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
 | Salem Town - 1851 - 422 pages
...spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the eneril^ Ttulia Haml.s gies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation...character, that, at times, it approaches to sublimity. 2. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness... | |
 | 1852 - 450 pages
...overwhelming reverse of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the...touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
 | Asahel Abbott - 1852 - 448 pages
...overwhelming reverse of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the...touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous... | |
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