Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... Calvin's complete dismay . How could Harriet so well love this fat and palpitating professor , nine years her senior , who seems so unattractive to us now ? Leaving aside the fact that Harriet's ideal was the man of God ( and Calvin ...
... Calvin's complete dismay . How could Harriet so well love this fat and palpitating professor , nine years her senior , who seems so unattractive to us now ? Leaving aside the fact that Harriet's ideal was the man of God ( and Calvin ...
Page 164
... Calvin's repertory . Even from the platform in England Calvin threw out his quaint solecisms ; and British audiences , to whom the speaker must have been as refreshing as a Hottentot , seemed to enjoy his Yankee expressions as much as ...
... Calvin's repertory . Even from the platform in England Calvin threw out his quaint solecisms ; and British audiences , to whom the speaker must have been as refreshing as a Hottentot , seemed to enjoy his Yankee expressions as much as ...
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... Calvin's king in Prussia ( whom by now they familiarly called " Old Fritz " ) , and the nuisance of having another baby . For Harriet's " interval of rest from further services " was over , and once more her " prospects in the maternal ...
... Calvin's king in Prussia ( whom by now they familiarly called " Old Fritz " ) , and the nuisance of having another baby . For Harriet's " interval of rest from further services " was over , and once more her " prospects in the maternal ...
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