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 | Rome - Page 528Even those who have lived in Rome for years are continually making new discoveries in localities.more pages: 522 530 535 |
| Lansing - Page 505Desiring to reach Lansing if it could be done, I sought the Division Superintendent of the road, and bargained for a special train to Lansing, ... |
| Boston - Page 98I HA YE not attempted to write with chronological exactness, and cannot remember at what time my father decided to leave Boston for a residence in ...more pages: 118 274 |
More | Leicester, Massachusetts - Page 420It happened, one day, that some exigency of family affairs summoned my husband to his father's home in Leicester, Massachusetts, where he was likely ...more pages: 402 |
| Marseilles - Page 522Few public highways combine in themselves such elements of natural beauty as the road from Marseilles to Rome. The Mediterranean is on one side, ...more pages: xxxii |
| Florence - Page 535But the beauty disappears as you enter Florence, and you are enraptured no more. You are walled in between buildings of great height, built of very ...more pages: 536 577 |
| Chicago - Page 699Most of us remember the year 1871, when the city of Chicago was burned. There was a crackling, roaring conflagration seven miles along the front of ...more pages: 483 696 |
| Sumter - Page 466The bombardment of Sumter had stunned and paralyzed the North at the moment ; but it was only the slow settling back of the billow that now broke in ...more pages: 464 465 468 |
| Milan - Page 547We had had a similar experience at Milan. Needing a guide to show us through some parts of the city not usually visited by tourists, a man was sent us ...more pages: 541 |
| Naples - Page 540Neapolitans are accustomed to say that Vesuvius will fulfill the prophecy long since made, and bury Naples, as it has Pompeii and Herculaneum. ...more pages: 536 577 |
| Venice - Page 540From Naples we went to Venice, a city of silence, as Naples is of noise. For there streets give place to canals of water, and the ordinary scenes and ...more pages: 269 577 |
| Omaha - Page 517I reached Omaha in season to keep my lecture engagement, but lectured to a small audience, owing to the terrific storm of wind which even then had not ...more pages: 513 |
| Washington, DC - Page 359On our journey northward we were compelled to stop in Washington, DC, as we had not a penny of money current outside the State of Virginia. ...more pages: vi 640 |
| New York - Page 359to visit a broker's office, and exchange our little horde of Virginia bank notes for money that would be current in New York and Massachusetts. ...more pages: 163 548 |
| Paris - Page 552I made a visit to a Girls' Normal School in Paris, and was politely shown through the various recitation rooms. The classes in history and geography ...more pages: 535 542 |
| Melrose, Massachusetts - Page 469in Boston We remove from Chicago to Melrose, Massachusetts I enter the Lecture Field with Reluctance No Ambition for Public Life James Red ...more pages: 483 |
| Cincinnati - Page 503Just as the conductor of the cattle train was giving the signal to start, we reached the station, and I asked him for passage to Cincinnati. ...more pages: 500 504 |
| Salisbury - Page 424"I declare I don't see how Salisbury did it! I wouldn't have dreamed that it could be done. I must see the fellow and tell him that he beats all the ...more pages: 421 423 |
| Springfield, Ohio - Page 509On still another occasion when I had missed my connections, I was obliged to take a special train from Springfield, Ohio, to fill an engagement on the ... |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts - Page 561Higginson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was spending a year abroad ; Mrs. Jenny June Croly, whose name is identified with the New York press ... |
| Jackson, Michigan - Page 505We were two hours late when we reached Jackson, Michigan, and failed to make connection with the train to Lansing. ... |
| Helena, Arkansas - Page 473On one occasion, when going from ward to ward of a hospital, in Helena, Arkansas, I came upon a poor fellow evidently near death. ... |
| Eastport, Maine - Page 547I should think I might ; I was born in Eastport, Maine, and my name there was Edward Barbour." We had had a similar experience at Milan. ... |
| Albany - Page 98Farewell to Old Friends The Night of our Departure Journeying by Stage to Albany To Rochester by the Erie Canal The most Delightful Journey of ...more pages: 102 103 |
| Fredericksburg - Page 148but, during the war, I became acquainted with roads and vehicles much worse than anything I experienced on the way to Fredericksburg. ...more pages: 151 |
| Palmer, Massachusetts - Page 412THE nearest railroad station to the town of Stafford was Palmer, Massachusetts, on the Boston & Albany Rail- road, fourteen miles distant. ... |
| Ridgeway, North Carolina - Page 151My journey by rail ended at Ridgeway, North Carolina, for the Virginia plantation to which I was bound lay partly in that state. ... |
| Rochester, New York - Page 100It was my father's plan to take his family to Rochester, New York, and leaving them there, to proceed to the office of the Holland Land Purchase ... |
| Brookline, Massachusetts - Page 608SG Shipley of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Henrietta AS AVhite of Syracuse, New York. With them I have enjoyed an uninterrupted friendship of ... |
| Northampton, Massachusetts - Page 100Northampton, Massachusetts, where my father's relatives lived, was to be our first stopping place. Long before the daylight of a clear, cool, ... |
| Stafford - Page 418remote from my kindred, and learning to adjust myself to unusual phases of life, by any neglect or inconsiderateness on the part of Stafford women. ...more pages: 437 446 |
| Monson, Massachusetts - Page 702The State of Massachusetts at one time maintained an institution at Monson, Massachusetts, for the little children that had come under its control and ... |
| South Amboy, New Jersey - Page 146A wheezing, asthmatic little steamer conveyed us to South Amboy, New Jersey, and at that point a train on the Camden & Amboy Railroad transported us ... |
| Sherborn, Massachusetts - Page 700A few weeks since, I visited the Woman's Reformatory Prison at Sherborn, Massachusetts. I went through the various departments, and met the women ... |
| Troy, New York - Page 160Willard's Seminary at Troy, New York. She was entirely lacking in beauty of face or figure, with a. manner that fitted her cold gray eye and shrunken ...more pages: 176 |
| Leeds - Page 573My hostesses had arranged a lecture for me in Leeds, which brought out a large number of liberal people, possessed of wealth, culture, and position, ...more pages: 572 |
| London - Page 554For we were due in London the last of July, and our tickets were purchased before the first public meeting was held.more pages: 556 558 |
| Taunton, Massachusetts - Page 510I was one of the speakers at a temperance mass meeting held in the Opera House at Taunton, Massachusetts. Some matter of local interest had caused ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 146from whence, after midnight, we were ferried across the Delaware River to Philadelphia, our baggage following early the next morning.more pages: 147 151 |
| Syracuse, New York - Page 608Henrietta AS AVhite of Syracuse, New York. With them I have enjoyed an uninterrupted friendship of sixty-five years. Of my father's family, only two. |
| Newport, Washington - Page 260For then the planter's family would migrate to Newport, Washington, New Orleans, or Europe, as desire dictated or the season suggested, ... |
| Schenectady - Page 107107 from Albany to Schenectady. It was a very rude affair, but it was the progenitor of our modern railways with their splendid equipments and ...more pages: 106 |
| Memphis - Page 695A few years since, and shortly after the close of the civil war, Memphis was sorely smitten with a pestilence. The living were not sufficient to care ... |
| Canandaigua, New York - Page 513sitting for two hours was torn entirely out by collision with empty, derailed freight cars at one time, as we were entering Canandaigua, New York. ... |
| Baltimore - Page 466At Albany, where we halted for dinner, we heard of the reception given the Massachusetts Sixth Infantry in' its passage through Baltimore. ...more pages: 147 374 |
| Johnstown - Page 696Floods washed away the city of Johnstown and buried thousands of its inhabitants under the debris. Hardly had the waters subsided, when a great tide ... |
| Big Rapids, Michigan - Page 500I was on my way to fill an engagement at Big Rapids, Michigan, when the engine broke down, and we stopped twenty -five miles from the town for repairs ... |
| Messina - Page 78Chicken pie and roast turkey were always served at dinner, followed by a variety of pies and puddings, and for dessert there were Messina oranges, ... |
| Seneca Falls, New York - Page 587Elizabeth/ Cady Stanton, at Seneca Falls, New York. To Mrs. Stone the reform was more than life. And stimulated by thp great love he bore her, ... |
| Warrenton, North Carolina - Page 365What a contrast to the warm June-like weather of the day that we took the train from Warrenton, North Carolina ! ... |
| Hanover - Page 113there would come such a rush of pattering feet down Salem and Hanover streets as suggested a sudden dashing of rain on the brick sidewalks. ... |
| San Francisco - Page 723In those days, many young men and women who had found their way to the golden state were lost in the vile purlieus of San Francisco, or had dropped ... |
| Edinburgh - Page 560Duncan MacLaren, member of Parliament from Edinburgh ; and his lovely wife, Mrs. Priscilla MacLaren, the sister of John and Jacob Bright ; the Ash ...more pages: 160 210 |
| Auburn, New York - Page 454To my husband, therefore, it seemed most opportune, when a large number of his friends in Auburn, New York, organized a colony to start for Kansas, ... |
| Norwich - Page 365when the northeast wind penetrated to the very marrow, and the snow and ice were lying in patches all along the road from Norwich to Boston. ... |
| Bologna - Page 541We were fortunate in having our trip so arranged that we could stop over to see these interesting specialties, and sometimes, as at Bologna and Milan, ... |
| Lawrence, Massachusetts - Page 725A good many years ago, on a certain tenth day of January, the Pemberton mill collapsed at Lawrence, Massachusetts. ... |
| Cologne - Page 545After a week in Geneva, and its most interesting environs, we hastened to Antwerp by way of Cologne, only stopping in the latter city long enough for ... |
| Northampton - Page 101When we reached Northampton, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, my father decided to take a private conveyance and push on to my ... |
| Malaga - Page 78followed by a variety of pies and puddings, and for dessert there were Messina oranges, Malaga raisins, Smyrna figs, and nuts. ... |
| Berlin - Page 646When I was in Berlin, at one time, I saw a husband and wife start out together on some errand, or to engage in some kind of work. ...more pages: 531 |
| Dublin - Page 574distils ten millions of gallons; or from the brown stout, which is brewed in Dublin at the rate of two hundred and fifty thousand gallons a day. ... |
| Ohio, New York - Page 606Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Maine. Massachusetts, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia. In the back parlor, where the gifts were displayed, Mrs. ... |
| Buffalo - Page 99of our acquaintance sold all their possessions, and started off on a pioneer journey, not knowing whither they were going, after they reached Buffalo. ... |
| Annapolis, Maryland - Page 641Gihon, the senior medical officer of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1881 made a report concerning the ill effects of ... |
| Hingham, Mass - Page 127Miss Whiting of Hingham, Mass., was the founder and principal of the Seminary, and was cotemporary with Mar}- Lyon, of Mount Ilolyoke Seminary. ... |
| Cleveland, Ohio - Page 595Frederick Knapp, the special relief agent ; Frederick Law Olmsted, the secretary; Professor JS Newberry of Cleveland, Ohio; Honorable Mark Skinner and ... |
| Northfield, Massachusetts - Page 38My father, Timothy Rice, born in Northfield, Massachusetts, came of Welsh ancestry, and belonged to a strong, vigorous, and long-lived family. ... |
| York - Page 573There were daily excursions to the various places of interest in the neighborhood of Leeds, to the quaint old city of York, to York Minster, ... |
| New Orleans - Page 260For then the planter's family would migrate to Newport, Washington, New Orleans, or Europe, as desire dictated or the season suggested, ... |
| Gardner, Massachusetts - Page 586the first address ever made in its behalf in this country, in the church of her brother, a Con- gregutionalist clergyman, in Gardner, Massachusetts. ... |
| Sudbury, Massachusetts - Page 38His direct ancestor, Edmund Rice, came from I'arkhamstead, England, in the county of Hertfordshire, and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638. ... |
| Santa Barbara - Page 492I have delivered this lec- i ture over eight hundred times in twenty-five years, and in i every part of the country from Maine to Santa Barbara. ... |
| Cairo - Page 469To re-open the Mississippi, which had been blockaded below Cairo by the secessionists, was the passion of the West. ...more pages: 467 |
| Jind - Page 582and have spoken from the platform Jind the pulpit, at political meetings, and before legislative committees, at Chautauqua assemblies and grove. |
| Jerusalem - Page 526From the day that Jerusalem was destroyed, and the Jews were brought captives to Rome, by the Emperor Titus, indescribable indignities have been ... |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarAngela G Ray - 2004 - Argumentation and Advocacy Rene J Erlandson - 2005 - Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian Popular passagesGreen vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn. Thou first and chief, sole sovran of the Vale! O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars... Page 544 O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete... Page 140 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church ; for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Page 666 So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry. Page 140 Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. Page 667 ... to bless them that curse us, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us... Page 389 And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. Page 610 As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me. Page 671 Tis better to have loved and lost, Thau never to have loved at all. Page 316 For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse ; history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song I have tried all. But I feel I have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I can say, like so (many others, 'I have finished my day's work,' but I can not say, 'I have finished my life. Page 730 LessContents | 35 | | | | | 52 | | | | | 65 | | | | | 83 | | | | | 98 | | | | | 118 | | | | | 130 | | | | | 143 | | | |
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