| Oliver Johnson - 1879 - 442 pages
...would ever have been organized but for her. James Eussell Lowell describes her in these lines : — " A Judith there, turned Quakeress, Sits Abby, in her...altar laid Than hers — the simple Quaker maid." / It was Mrs. Foster's misfortune to be often confounded by the press (sometimes mischievously) with... | |
| Oliver Johnson - Abolitionists - 1879 - 458 pages
...would ever have been organized but for her. James Russell Lowell describes her in these lines : — " A Judith there, turned Quakeress, Sits Abby, in her...from spot or stain, Was e'er on Freedom's altar laid Thau hers — the simple Quaker maid." It was, Mrs. Foster's misfortune to be often confounded by the... | |
| Oliver Johnson - Abolitionists - 1881 - 514 pages
...would ever have been organized but for her. James Russell Lowell describes her in these lines : — " A Judith there, turned Quakeress, Sits Abby, in her...altar laid Than hers — the simple Quaker maid." It was Mrs. Foster's misfortune to be often confounded by the press (sometimes mischievously) with... | |
| Oliver Johnson - Abolitionists - 1881 - 526 pages
...would ever have been organized but for her. James Russell Lowell describes her in these lines : — " A Judith there, turned Quakeress, Sits Abby, in her...from spot or stain, Was e'er on Freedom's altar laid Thau hers — the simple Quaker maid." Tt was Mrs. Foster's misfortune to be often confounded by the... | |
| New England - 1887 - 690 pages
...in attendance, and brief addresses were made. James Russell Lowell wrote of her in her youth : — "No nobler gift of heart or brain, No life more white...spot or stain, Was e'er on Freedom's altar laid Than her's — the humble Quaker maid." Her name is historically inseparable from those of Lucretia Mott,... | |
| New England - 1887 - 636 pages
...in attendance, and brief addresses were made. James Russell Lowell wrote of her in her youth : — "No nobler gift of heart or brain, No life more white from spot or stain, 1 Was e'er on Freedom's altar laid Than her's — the humble Quaker maid." Her name is historically... | |
| Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 560 pages
...head, Along the wires in silence fares And messages of commerce bears. No nobler gift of heart and brain, No life more white from spot or stain, Was...Freedom's altar laid Than hers — the simple Quaker maid. Passed round in turn from mouth to mouth ; — CHAP. VI. If any ism should arise, 1^6 They look on... | |
| Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 558 pages
...wires in silence fares And messages of commerce bears. No nobler gift of heart and brain, No lif e more white from spot or stain, Was e'er on Freedom's altar laid Than hers — the simple Quaker maid. Passed round in turn from mouth to mouth ; — CHAP. VI. If any ism should arise, ^6 They look on it... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 610 pages
...Lowell, who knew and coworked with both, has portrayed them with exquisite fidelity. Of Abby he says : " No nobler gift of heart or brain, No life more white...altar laid Than hers — the Simple Quaker maid." Mr. Foster he hits off with rare humor : " Hard by, as calm as summer even, Smiles the reviled and pelted... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 370 pages
...head, Along the wires in silence fares And messages of commerce bears. No nobler gift of heart and brain, No life more white from spot or stain, Was...Freedom's altar laid Than hers, the simple Quaker maid. Who therefore writes them in her lists As Satan's limbs and atheists ; For each sect has one argument... | |
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