Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens The Floating Press, 2016 M10 1 - 285 pages From the stirring self-sacrifice of ancient Greek princess Alcestis to the battlefield heroics and later professional achievements of British nurse Florence Nightingale, this volume of biographical sketches geared toward younger readers showcases the accomplishments, virtues, and courageous feats of women throughout history. |
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... father Zeus, for men say that they make them on their forges that are in the mountain of Etna. Zeus suffered not this deed to go unpunished, but passed this sentence on his son Apollo, that he should serve a mortal man for the space of ...
... father Zeus, for men say that they make them on their forges that are in the mountain of Etna. Zeus suffered not this deed to go unpunished, but passed this sentence on his son Apollo, that he should serve a mortal man for the space of ...
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... father and mother betrayed thee. But the gods have ordered all this after their own pleasure. So be it. Do thou therefore make this recompense, which indeed thou owest to me, for what will not a man give for his life? Thou lovest these ...
... father and mother betrayed thee. But the gods have ordered all this after their own pleasure. So be it. Do thou therefore make this recompense, which indeed thou owest to me, for what will not a man give for his life? Thou lovest these ...
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... father also, and his mother. But of his wife he answered so that Hercules understood not that he spake of her. For he said that she was a stranger by blood, yet near in friendship, and that she had dwelt in his house, having been left ...
... father also, and his mother. But of his wife he answered so that Hercules understood not that he spake of her. For he said that she was a stranger by blood, yet near in friendship, and that she had dwelt in his house, having been left ...
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... father of the King, approached, and servants came with him bearing robes and crowns and other adornments wherewith ... father of mine. For being come to extreme old age, yet thou wouldst not die for thy son, but sufferedst this woman ...
... father of the King, approached, and servants came with him bearing robes and crowns and other adornments wherewith ... father of mine. For being come to extreme old age, yet thou wouldst not die for thy son, but sufferedst this woman ...
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... father and mother also. Yet this had been a noble deed for thee, seeing that the span of life that was left to thee ... father was freeborn before me? I reared thee to rule this house after me; but to die for thee, that I owed thee not ...
... father and mother also. Yet this had been a noble deed for thee, seeing that the span of life that was left to thee ... father was freeborn before me? I reared thee to rule this house after me; but to die for thee, that I owed thee not ...
Contents
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V Joan of Arc | 66 |
VI Catherine Douglas | 110 |
VII Lady Jane Grey | 141 |
VIII Pocahontas | 155 |
IX Flora Macdonald | 183 |
X Madame Roland | 197 |
XI Grace Darling | 234 |
XII Sister Dora | 245 |
XIII Florence Nightingale | 268 |
Endnotes | 284 |
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