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Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. And if , dear reader , thou hast now and then patience with the letter - writer when she speaks in sickness of body , or in the ... AMERICAN FRIENDS . Stockholm , May , 1853 TO THE READER . V.
Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. And if , dear reader , thou hast now and then patience with the letter - writer when she speaks in sickness of body , or in the ... AMERICAN FRIENDS . Stockholm , May , 1853 TO THE READER . V.
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Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS . Stockholm , May , 1853 . THESE letters were written in your homes while I lived there with you , as a sister with her brothers and sisters -in the North , in the West , in ...
Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS . Stockholm , May , 1853 . THESE letters were written in your homes while I lived there with you , as a sister with her brothers and sisters -in the North , in the West , in ...
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... American brother , and who beautified my life more than I can tell by the charm of his friendship , by the guidance of his keen intellect , and his brotherly kind- ness and care ; whose image is forever pictured in my soul in connection ...
... American brother , and who beautified my life more than I can tell by the charm of his friendship , by the guidance of his keen intellect , and his brotherly kind- ness and care ; whose image is forever pictured in my soul in connection ...
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... America . I love to recall every one of them . " You will know it all when you come into your own country , " said he , with reference to many questions , many inquiries , which at my departure from America were ... AMERICAN FRIENDS . ix.
... America . I love to recall every one of them . " You will know it all when you come into your own country , " said he , with reference to many questions , many inquiries , which at my departure from America were ... AMERICAN FRIENDS . ix.
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... American editions the initials of the names are merely given , where the names belong to private individuals . I have , however , considered this veiling of my friends to be superfluous in the Swedish , where in any case their names ...
... American editions the initials of the names are merely given , where the names belong to private individuals . I have , however , considered this veiling of my friends to be superfluous in the Swedish , where in any case their names ...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1 Fredrika Bremer Visualização completa - 1853 |
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Página 157 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 157 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 158 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 157 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 158 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Página 160 - ... to live in truth. Does this sound harsh to-day? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
Página 162 - I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Página 184 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 162 - Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness, that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy. I am equally baulked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease an instant to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Página 91 - Their inspiration, and perchance the best: They felt, and loved, and died, but would not lend Their thoughts to meaner beings; they...