CONTAINING NOTICES

OF

DISTINGUISHED WOMEN,

IN

DIFFERENT NATIONS AND AGES.

BY SAMUEL L. KNAPP,

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON AMERICAN LITERATURE, Advice in the pursuits oF LITERATURE,
AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, ETC. ETC.

"O fairest of creation, last and best

Of all God's works, creature in whom excell'd
Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd,
Holy, divine, good, amiable or sweet." -Milton.

"Lords of the world, as ye are proudly called,
By your own sex applauded and extolled
For every good-is woman's lovely frame

A gemless casket-fitted but to claim
The eye's devotion? Perish such a thought,

HERE, learn her worth, and prize her as ye ought;
Though she permits your rougher hand to bear
The rod of power-your loftier brow to wear
The glittering badge of sovereignty-she still
Directs, unseen, the sceptre at her will.

Wisdom may act, determine, or approve,

Still the prime mover is, and must be, Love."-Woodworth.

STEREOTYPED BY FRANCIS F. RIPLEY.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY J. CARPENTER, CLINTON HALL,
BALTIMORE,—PHŒNIX, WOOD & CO.

MDCCCXXXIV.