Alice Gordon Gulick: Her Life and Work in SpainFleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 283 pages |
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Alice Gordon Gulick: Her Life and Work in Spain (Classic Reprint) Elizabeth Putnam Gordon No preview available - 2018 |
Alice Gordon Gulick: Her Life and Work in Spain - Primary Source Edition Elizabeth Putnam Gordon No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 34 - Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Page 230 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Page 217 - WHO cometh over the hills, Her garments with morning sweet, The dance of a thousand rills Making music before her feet ? Her presence freshens the air ; Sunshine steals light from her face; The leaden footstep of Care Leaps to the tune of her pace, Fairness of all that is fair, Grace at the heart of all grace, Sweetener of hut and of hall, Bringer of life out of naught, Freedom, oh, fairest of all The daughters of Time and Thought...
Page 247 - ... his fair penitents will have nothing to learn from a diligent perusal of Faublas or Casanova. It would, however, be unjust to the priesthood to consider them all as corrupt as royal chaplains. It requires a combination of convent and palace life to produce these finished specimens of mitred infamy. It is to be regretted that the Spanish women are kept in such systematic ignorance. They have a quicker and more active intelligence than the men. With a fair degree of education, much might be hoped...
Page 25 - Greater poets she has had, but no greater writer ; no nature more finely tempered. Nay, may we not say that great character is as rare a thing as great genius, if it be not even a nobler form of it ? For surely it is easier to embody fine thinking, or delicate sentiment, or lofty aspiration, in a book than in a life.
Page 246 - I had on this general subject in years that are past ! And I have indeed lived to see the time, when a body of gentlemen have ventured to lay the corner stone of an edifice, which will cost about fifteen thousand dollars, and will be an institution for the education of females.
Page 198 - In all their afflictions he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.