The Literary Women of England: Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; with Extracts from Their Works, and Critical RemarksSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 564 pages |
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... interest which can be offered to the attention of any reader . It constitutes the chief attraction of ably - constructed fiction , and the main charm of authentic records . Biography , yet more emphatically than history , may be defined ...
... interest which can be offered to the attention of any reader . It constitutes the chief attraction of ably - constructed fiction , and the main charm of authentic records . Biography , yet more emphatically than history , may be defined ...
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... interest , and united retrospection gives a powerful impulse to advancement . Meanwhile , deeply conscious of omissions , which I have failed in procuring materials to supply ; of shortcomings , which I do not possess the means of eking ...
... interest , and united retrospection gives a powerful impulse to advancement . Meanwhile , deeply conscious of omissions , which I have failed in procuring materials to supply ; of shortcomings , which I do not possess the means of eking ...
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... interests of Christianity throughout his dominions ; and that the council was attended not only by Berthwald Archbishop of Canterbury , and by Tobias * See Wright's Biographia Britannica Literaria . ' + See Mosheim's Ecclesiastical ...
... interests of Christianity throughout his dominions ; and that the council was attended not only by Berthwald Archbishop of Canterbury , and by Tobias * See Wright's Biographia Britannica Literaria . ' + See Mosheim's Ecclesiastical ...
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... interest , and are from females of inferior station . " This information is important , as a proof that education at that period was not the exclusive privilege of women of * Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies , vol . i . p . 94 ...
... interest , and are from females of inferior station . " This information is important , as a proof that education at that period was not the exclusive privilege of women of * Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies , vol . i . p . 94 ...
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... interests , family acquisitions , worldly advance- ment , and personal convenience ; the cares of lands and houses , goods and chattels , profits and losses , are the en- grossing topics of all ; with such narrations of the political ...
... interests , family acquisitions , worldly advance- ment , and personal convenience ; the cares of lands and houses , goods and chattels , profits and losses , are the en- grossing topics of all ; with such narrations of the political ...
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