Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... father's voice , as in an ecstasy of grief and religious exaltation he heralded the wife of his youth up to the jasper gates . “ Roxana , you are now come unto Mount Zion , unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and ...
... father's voice , as in an ecstasy of grief and religious exaltation he heralded the wife of his youth up to the jasper gates . “ Roxana , you are now come unto Mount Zion , unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and ...
Page 71
... Father Beecher in Hartford . He had taken the initiative in proposing a religious newspaper for Connecticut , the Hartford Observer . Having founded it , he discovered that the only way he could keep its columns filled was to do the ...
... Father Beecher in Hartford . He had taken the initiative in proposing a religious newspaper for Connecticut , the Hartford Observer . Having founded it , he discovered that the only way he could keep its columns filled was to do the ...
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... father , and George have been holding a long chat . At last father and Edward went down cellar to saw wood . Don't that seem natural ? I have come up and left them . . . . Oh , it seems like old times , and I am really happy — only a ...
... father , and George have been holding a long chat . At last father and Edward went down cellar to saw wood . Don't that seem natural ? I have come up and left them . . . . Oh , it seems like old times , and I am really happy — only a ...
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