| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 560 pàgines
...in some places, is a vice with which my countrywomen cannot justly be charged. There is nothing they so generally neglect as reading, and indeed all the arts for the improvement of the mind, — in which, I confess, we have set them the example. They are modest, temperate, and charitable ;... | |
| Alice Morse Earle, Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford - 1893 - 242 pàgines
...their Families with becoming Parsimony, good Providence and singular Neatness. There is nothing they so generally neglect as Reading, and indeed all the Arts for the improvement of the Mind, in which I confess we have set them the example. They are modest temperate and charitable, naturally... | |
| James Alton James - 1914 - 606 pàgines
...in some places, is a vice with which my countrywomen cannot justly be charged. There is nothing they so generally neglect as reading, and indeed all the arts for the improvement of the mind, in which, I confess, we have set them the example. They are modest, temperate, and charitable; naturally... | |
| Carl Holliday - 1922 - 350 pàgines
...some places, is a vice with which my country women cannot justly be charged. There is nothing they so generally neglect as reading, and indeed all the arts for the improvement of the mind — in which, I confess we have set them the example. They are modest, temperate, and charitable, naturally... | |
| Alice Morse Earle - 1896 - 332 pàgines
...New York, gives what was doubtless a true picture of the inelegance of education in New York : — " There is nothing they [New York women] so generally...indeed all the Arts for the improvement of the Mind, in which I confess we have set them the Example. Our Schools are in the Lowest Order, the Instructors... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 pàgines
...in some places, is a vice with which my countrywomen cannot justly be charged. There is nothing they so generally neglect as reading, and indeed all the arts for the improvement of the mind, in which, I confess, we have set them the example. They are modest, temperate, and charitable ; naturally... | |
| Louis B. Wright, Henry Steele Commager, Richard Brandon Morris - 2002 - 340 pàgines
...praising the thrift, neatness, and diligence of New York women. Smith ohserves that there "is nothing they so generally neglect as reading, and indeed all the arts for the improvement of the mind, in which, I confess, we have set them the example." 18 New Jersey had a chronicler in one Samuel Smith,... | |
| 1897 - 1168 pàgines
...New York, gives what was doubtless a true picture of the inelegance of education in New York :— " There is nothing they [New York women] so generally...indeed all the Arts for the improvement of the Mind, in which I confess we have set them the Example. Our Schools are in the Lowest Order, the Instructors... | |
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