Woman's Suffrage Tracts, Issue 6; Issue 8New-England Woman's Suffrage Association, 1869 - Women |
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administration Applause arms to woman begun before Saint Boston burns and glows capacity to judge Chairman Christian women church baffled Commonwealth Constitution courage culture-but danger duty effectual in remedying England Ephesus equal errand of mercy especially the presence feminine zeal go back hand is nearest hero is safe HIGGINSON high civilization produces husband interests jail fever James Freeman Clarke Joan of Arc John Adams John Hampden John Howard joinder judgment JULIA WARD large town led is briefly liberty LUCY STONE manhood ministry of women miserably misery and degradation nation can contrive period of time-are persons pled by families President principle produces great contrasts PUBLIC WELFARE remedying this misery ruffianism and vice SAMUEL E squalor and wretch streets and alleys suffice to grapple suppose THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON tian women tical time-are the utmost tion TRUE REPUBLIC truth utmost mis wife wild beasts WOMAN SUFFRAGE WOMAN'S JOURNAL
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Page 10 - This noble lady cast the shield of her feminine virtue before the honour of her husband, to guard it from the assaults equally of interest and fear ; and, with that moral bravery which is so often found the purest and brightest in her sex, she exhorted him to do his duty, at any risk to himself, to her, or to their children ; — and she prevailed.
Page 3 - I do not suppose I enter on any delicate or debatable region of social philosophy, sure I am that I concede away nothing which I ought to assert for our sex, when I say that the collective womanhood of a people like our own seizes with matchless facility and certainty on the moral and personal peculiarities, and character, of marked and conspicuous men, and that we may very wisely address ourselves to her to learn if a competitor for the highest honors has revealed that truly noble nature that entitles...
Page 3 - Womanhood of a people liUe our own, seizes with matchless facility and certainty on the moral and personal peculiarities and character of marked and conspicuous men ! and that we may very wisely address ourselves to her to learn if a competitor for the highest honors has revealed that truly noble nature that entitles him to a place in the hearts of a nation.
Page 9 - ... his wife laid her hand upon his shoulder, and said to him "When you appear before the King, forget your wife, forget your children, forget everything but your duty and your God," and the council of that woman, it was, that saved that matchless judicial reputation, among the treasures of mankind.