Heroines that Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens Grosset & Dunlap, 1908 - 281 Seiten A collection of biographical sketches of great heroines from ancient and modern times. |
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Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's ... Hamilton Wright Mabie,Kate Stephens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Admetus Alcestis answered Antigone arms army bade boat brought Calchas called Captain Smith Charles chief child cried crown daughter dead death deed Domremy door dress English Eteocles Eustochium eyes Farne Islands father fear fell Flora Florence Florence Nightingale France friends gave girl Girondists God's Grace Græme hands hast hath head heard heart heroic honour hospital hour husband Indians Jacobins Jamestown Jerome Joan Joan's John S. C. Abbott King Kingsburgh knew Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey letter lived looked Lord Macdonald Madame Roland Maid maiden mother never night Nightingale noble nurses Orleans passed Paula Phlippon Pocahontas Polynices poor Powhatan pray prayer Prince prison Queen replied sent sick Sister Dora smile soldiers sorrow stood suffer sword tell thee thing thou wilt throne told Tomocomo took voice Walsall Werowocomoco wife woman women words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 262 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Seite 277 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Seite 279 - A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Nor even shall be wanting here The palm, the lily, and the spear, * The symbols that of yore Saint Filomena bore.
Seite 255 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Seite 143 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean but only by the mercy of God, in the blood of his only Son Jesus Christ...
Seite 56 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Seite 135 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 276 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air ? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut ? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one.
Seite 136 - ... perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips...
Seite 127 - And the traitor looked on the King's spent strength And said : " Have I kept my word ? — Yea, King, the mortal pledge that I gave ? No black friar's shrift thy soul shall have, But the shrift of this red sword...