Woman's Work in AmericaAnnie Nathan Meyer H. Holt and Company, 1891 - 457 páginas |
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... one re- markable consequence , -the cultivation of the female mind was regarded with utter indifference ; as Mrs. Abigail Adams says in one of her letters , it was fashionable to IN EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN STATES . 5 66.
... one re- markable consequence , -the cultivation of the female mind was regarded with utter indifference ; as Mrs. Abigail Adams says in one of her letters , it was fashionable to IN EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN STATES . 5 66.
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Annie Nathan Meyer. in one of her letters , it was fashionable to ridicule female learning . ' This discrimination between the intellectual needs of the two sexes should not , perhaps , be matter of surprise , when we consider that the ...
Annie Nathan Meyer. in one of her letters , it was fashionable to ridicule female learning . ' This discrimination between the intellectual needs of the two sexes should not , perhaps , be matter of surprise , when we consider that the ...
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... letters from the New England Primer . They were required to com- mit to memory the shorter catechism , and sometimes were taught to read enough to decipher it for themselves , from the last pages of their only book , the famous Primer ...
... letters from the New England Primer . They were required to com- mit to memory the shorter catechism , and sometimes were taught to read enough to decipher it for themselves , from the last pages of their only book , the famous Primer ...
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... letter - writing propensity in her circle . " These letters deserve notice , " says her biographer , " only as they fur- nish a general idea of the tastes and pursuits of the day , and show the evident influence upon the writers which ...
... letter - writing propensity in her circle . " These letters deserve notice , " says her biographer , " only as they fur- nish a general idea of the tastes and pursuits of the day , and show the evident influence upon the writers which ...
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... letters are remarkable because they display the readiness with which she could devote herself to the most opposite duties , and the cheerful manner in which she could accommodate herself to the difficulties of the times . She is a ...
... letters are remarkable because they display the readiness with which she could devote herself to the most opposite duties , and the cheerful manner in which she could accommodate herself to the difficulties of the times . She is a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admission of women admit women American Annie Nathan Meyer appointed Association Blackwell Boston Boston University boys century Chicago Christian church co-education Columbia College committee Court degree education of women Elizabeth Blackwell Emily Blackwell England equal established factory faculty favor female girls graduates Harvard Harvard College high school higher education hospital hundred Indian industrial influence institutions instruction intellectual interest Julia Ward Knights of Labor labor ladies lectures Legislature Lucretia Mott male Mary Mary Putnam Jacobi Massachusetts Medical School medicine ment Miss moral Non-sectarian number of women Oberlin obstetrics open to women organized patients Philadelphia practice present president profession pupils received says secure Seminary social society South teachers Territory tion town trustees United University vote wages Wellesley College woman women physicians writes York young women
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Página 318 - The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 224 - Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood.
Página 259 - Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
Página 224 - Assembly, that no person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation, profession or employment (except military) on account of sex ; provided, that this act shall not be construed to affect the eligibility of any person to an elective office.
Página 382 - President of the United States, and to the Senate and House of Representatives...
Página 231 - Against the peace and dignity of the same." § 27. There shall be elected in each county in this state, in such districts as the general assembly may direct, by the qualified electors thereof, a competent number of justices of the peace, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, and who shall perform such duties, receive such compensation, and exercise such jurisdiction, as may be prescribed by law.
Página 259 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
Página 12 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 28 - But young ladies, who ought only to have such a general tincture of knowledge as to make them agreeable companions to a man of sense...
Página 236 - Commonwealth shall respectively have power to admit a competent number of persons of an honest disposition, and learned in the law, to practice as attorneys in their respective courts.
Referencias a este libro
Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History Barbara Jean Harris Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
Give Us Bread But Give Us Roses: Working Women's Consciousness in the United ... Sarah Eisenstein Sin vista previa disponible - 1983 |