Life of Dorothea Lynde DixHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1890 - 392 страница |
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... Frederika Bremer , then on a visit to the United States . Herself suffering from exhaustion brought on by overwork and on the edge of utter collapse , Miss Bremer felt strongly drawn to the especial type of ministering angel whose life ...
... Frederika Bremer , then on a visit to the United States . Herself suffering from exhaustion brought on by overwork and on the edge of utter collapse , Miss Bremer felt strongly drawn to the especial type of ministering angel whose life ...
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... Frederika Bremer , the idea of any good being effected , in the way of awakening the people of Sweden to a sense of their duties toward any class of their own population , by a foreigner , and above all a foreigner entirely ignorant of ...
... Frederika Bremer , the idea of any good being effected , in the way of awakening the people of Sweden to a sense of their duties toward any class of their own population , by a foreigner , and above all a foreigner entirely ignorant of ...
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... Frederika Bremer's sensitiveness was natural enough to average , restricted humanity . Only she forgot that the " Chinese Wall , " to which she will be found alluding , dated back to an antiquated order of military defenses , regarded ...
... Frederika Bremer's sensitiveness was natural enough to average , restricted humanity . Only she forgot that the " Chinese Wall , " to which she will be found alluding , dated back to an antiquated order of military defenses , regarded ...
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... Frederika Bremer as a far more imaginative woman than Dorothea Lynde Dix . So widely is genuine constructive power of imagination confused with the activity of a mere dreamy fancy , that the number is legion who think a more vigorous ...
... Frederika Bremer as a far more imaginative woman than Dorothea Lynde Dix . So widely is genuine constructive power of imagination confused with the activity of a mere dreamy fancy , that the number is legion who think a more vigorous ...
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... Bremer , Frederika , letters from , 162 , 163 , 164 ; her national pride , 163 . Brown , Hon . Albert G. , speech by , 196 , 197 . Browning , Robert , 50 . Bryce , Dr. P. , 106 . Burghardt , Dr. Caroline A. , 341 . Burke , Edmund , 175 ...
... Bremer , Frederika , letters from , 162 , 163 , 164 ; her national pride , 163 . Brown , Hon . Albert G. , speech by , 196 , 197 . Browning , Robert , 50 . Bryce , Dr. P. , 106 . Burghardt , Dr. Caroline A. , 341 . Burke , Edmund , 175 ...
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