Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American WomanWillard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations. |
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Page vii
... beautiful life , we , the Woman's Christian Temperance Union delegates , in National Con- vention assembled , do request Miss Willard to prepare for publication an autobiography , together with the history of the Woman's Christian Tem ...
... beautiful life , we , the Woman's Christian Temperance Union delegates , in National Con- vention assembled , do request Miss Willard to prepare for publication an autobiography , together with the history of the Woman's Christian Tem ...
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... beautiful illustrations of the book are entirely the work of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association , which is bringing it out . Miss Willard would not have felt willing in her own name to send forth such personal pictures for ...
... beautiful illustrations of the book are entirely the work of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association , which is bringing it out . Miss Willard would not have felt willing in her own name to send forth such personal pictures for ...
Page xiv
... beautiful years ended- " Tell everybody to be good " -A change . CHAPTER IV . " PRECEPTRESS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES . " 169-174 Northwestern Female College - One day's work - Teacher and pupil- " The slaves are free . " Table of ...
... beautiful years ended- " Tell everybody to be good " -A change . CHAPTER IV . " PRECEPTRESS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES . " 169-174 Northwestern Female College - One day's work - Teacher and pupil- " The slaves are free . " Table of ...
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... Beautiful Years " as one of the truest women that ever breathed , brave , delicate , and with a piquant speech and manner . Her life was sorrowful by reason of an unhappy marriage , and her death in the prime of her years was a release ...
... Beautiful Years " as one of the truest women that ever breathed , brave , delicate , and with a piquant speech and manner . Her life was sorrowful by reason of an unhappy marriage , and her death in the prime of her years was a release ...
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... beautiful and lofty sense of duty in which she excelled all other persons whom I have ever known . We have all heard the story of that philosophical boy who , when looking at a misshapen tree , said " Somebody must have stepped upon it ...
... beautiful and lofty sense of duty in which she excelled all other persons whom I have ever known . We have all heard the story of that philosophical boy who , when looking at a misshapen tree , said " Somebody must have stepped upon it ...
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Page 400 - ... fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 15 - THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, — a shining frame, — Their great Original proclaim. The...
Page 637 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 407 - He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 431 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 359 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Page 695 - And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey : Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way. 3...
Page 451 - tis weary; Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; Furl it, fold it, it is best; For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it; And its foes now scorn and brave it; Furl it, hide it— let it rest!
Page 451 - twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust : For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must. Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently — it is holy — For it droops above the dead. Touch it not — unfold it never, Let it droop there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead...
Page 454 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...