 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 Ladies' Companion - Էջ 131835Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1889 - 466 էջ
...lord cardinal to this point, And thus far clear him. LESSON XXXII. THE WIFE. PATCT I. SHAKSPEAKE. 1. 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... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 էջ
...brand, And hostile hand! twelve is the clock!" HW Longfellow, Maine, 1807—. 27. Female Fortitude. 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... | |
 | W. Scott Morgan - 1891 - 768 էջ
...in woman's character by that best of American writers, Washington Irving: "I have often," says he, "had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 էջ
...house. 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 sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 էջ
...God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having. — Bovee. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 էջ
...house. 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 sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the... | |
 | Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 էջ
...with. DOUGLAS JERROI.D. AN immodest woman is food without salt. ARABIAN PROVERB. FORTITUDE OF WOMEN. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters that break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 էջ
...bouse. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth . . The violet bed's not iweeter. MIDDLKTOK. T 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... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 էջ
...For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. 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... | |
 | 1897 - 308 էջ
...and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. — Washington Irving. 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... | |
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