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Browsing named entities in Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). You can also browse the collection for Gerrit Smith or search for Gerrit Smith in all documents.
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw . (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Searle . (search)
To Miss Lucy Searle. Wayland, 1862.
So you dispute Gerrit Smith's testimony about my being wise and candid ? I cannot say I have much respect for my wisdom.
I think less and less of it every year I live.
But when I write for the public, I think I am generally candid.
I do not profess to be so in my talk, because that bubbl ne its spirit.
We all present different phases of character, according to circumstances, and I think I do so more than most people.
It is natural enough that Gerrit Smith should deem me wise.
When I approach him, I don't go dancing on a slack rope, decorated with spangles and Psyche-wings; I walk on solid ground, as demurely as sitors.
Dear Sarah Shaw likes to see fanciful dancing on moon-beams, and when I write to her I sometimes caracole in a fashion that would make good, sensible Gerrit Smith wonder what had become of the wisdom of his sage friend . .
I suppose George's indignation against England is not abated by her recent manifestations.
I th
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Theodore D. Weld . (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)