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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 18 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 3 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 16 2 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 16 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 8 2 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 6 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
and her sisters have climbed far up its steep ascent. Who believed that a poetess could ever be more than an Annot Lyle of the harp, to soothe with sweet melodies the leisure of her lord, until in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's hands the thing became a trumpet? Where are gone the sneers with which army surgeons and parliamentary orators opposed Mr. Sidney Herbert's first proposition to send Florence Nightingale to the Crimea? In how many towns has the current of popular prejudice against female orators been reversed by one winning speech from Lucy Stone! Where no logic can prevail, success silences. First give woman, if you dare, the alphabet, then summon her to her career: and though men, ignorant and prejudiced, may oppose its beginnings, there is no danger but they will at last fling around her conquering footsteps more lavish praises than ever greeted the opera's idol,more perfumed flowers than ever wooed, with intoxicating fragrance, the fairest butterfly of the ball-room.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
:--Blackman, in spite of his name, a Nazarene whiter than snow ;--Partridge, a hunted partridge, yet both a dove and an eagle ;--Ezekiel Rogers, a tree of knowledge, whose apples the very children might pluck ;--Nathaniel Rogers, a very lively preacher and a very preaching liver, he loved his church as if it had been his family and he taught his family as if it had been his church ;--Warham, the first who preached with notes, and who suffered agonies of doubt respecting the Lord's Supper ;--Stone, both a loadstone and a flint stone, and who set the self-sacrificing example of preaching only one hour. These men had mingled traits of good and evil, like all mankind,--nobler than their descendants in some attributes, less noble in others. The most strait-laced Massachusetts Calvinist of these days would have been disciplined by them for insufferable laxity, and yet their modern successor would count it utter shame, perhaps, to own a slave in his family or to drink rum-punch at an or