 I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 2151839Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughD2 ness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and D2 dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidities and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the...such intrepidity and elevation to their character, i hat at times it approaches to suhlimity. Nothing can he more touching than to hehold a soft and lender... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiih break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him...all the energies of the softer sex, and give such ir.lv-pidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man,...energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity _and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...occasion to remark the fortitude, with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters, which break down the spirit of a...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
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