Heroines that Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens Grosset & Dunlap, 1908 - 281 pages A collection of biographical sketches of great heroines from ancient and modern times. |
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... hour of daring achievement . Many heroes have been betrayed by popularity into vanity and folly and have lost at home the glory they won abroad . Heroic women have not cared for public recognition and do not need it ; but it is of ...
... hour of daring achievement . Many heroes have been betrayed by popularity into vanity and folly and have lost at home the glory they won abroad . Heroic women have not cared for public recognition and do not need it ; but it is of ...
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... After this , when the hour was now come when she must die , she cried to her husband ( for he held her in his arms , as if he would have stayed her that she should not depan . " I see the boat of the dead , and Alcestis 5.
... After this , when the hour was now come when she must die , she cried to her husband ( for he held her in his arms , as if he would have stayed her that she should not depan . " I see the boat of the dead , and Alcestis 5.
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... hour the man was drowned by accident , and those words of hers were repeated far and wide as a proof of her prophetic power . The Count of Vendôme led her into the royal presence . She entered meekly , but undismayed ; in her visions sh ...
... hour the man was drowned by accident , and those words of hers were repeated far and wide as a proof of her prophetic power . The Count of Vendôme led her into the royal presence . She entered meekly , but undismayed ; in her visions sh ...
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... hours , and she answered them so well that they were amazed . In spite of their expressed distrust , she spoke to them freely and fully , told how her voices had bidden her go into France , how she had wept at their command and yet ...
... hours , and she answered them so well that they were amazed . In spite of their expressed distrust , she spoke to them freely and fully , told how her voices had bidden her go into France , how she had wept at their command and yet ...
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... hour any more than your- self . Would to God that I might return now , and lay down my arms , and go back to serve my parents , and guard their flocks with my sister and brothers , who would be right glad to see me . " She must often ...
... hour any more than your- self . Would to God that I might return now , and lay down my arms , and go back to serve my parents , and guard their flocks with my sister and brothers , who would be right glad to see me . " She must often ...
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Page 280 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 265 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 144 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I...
Page 281 - I in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.
Page 257 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Page 55 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 279 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air ? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut ? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one.
Page 136 - 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 109 - While the woman spoke, the King's horse reared As if it would breast the sea, And the Queen turned pale as she heard on the gale The voice die dolorously. When the woman ceased, the Steed was still, But the King gazed on her yet, And in silence save for the wail of the sea His eyes and her eyes met.