Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 87
... thought ( and following some suggestion from Princeton College ) Dr. Wilson was disturbed . To accept , without question or the slightest examination , even a Lyman Beecher to head the institution that was to turn the Mississippi Basin ...
... thought ( and following some suggestion from Princeton College ) Dr. Wilson was disturbed . To accept , without question or the slightest examination , even a Lyman Beecher to head the institution that was to turn the Mississippi Basin ...
Page 339
... thought the most profitable investment . She had not wanted to sign these sketches , but her family had insisted that she do so in order to build a reputation . So she became an author ; and if you ever see a woodcut of me , with an ...
... thought the most profitable investment . She had not wanted to sign these sketches , but her family had insisted that she do so in order to build a reputation . So she became an author ; and if you ever see a woodcut of me , with an ...
Page 433
... thought it . " Yes , " said Henry , " and the best part of it is , my mother gave it to me . " Not every boy had a mother whose very presents were historic objects . That spring , to his grief , Henry had fallen and cracked the ring ...
... thought it . " Yes , " said Henry , " and the best part of it is , my mother gave it to me . " Not every boy had a mother whose very presents were historic objects . That spring , to his grief , Henry had fallen and cracked the ring ...
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