 When every thing is desperate in the cause of a people, we need not yet despair, if the spirit of resistance still subsists in the heart of a woman, whether she be a Judith, a Clelia, or a Joan of Arc, — a Cava in Spain, a Victoria Colonna in Italy,...  Memoirs of Celebrated Characters - Página 51por Alphonse de Lamartine - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - 1854 - 464 páginas
...becomes supernatural, it is from woman that the wonder must be expected. Men would stop at valour. All nations have in their annals some of those miracles...a woman is the instrument in the hand of God. When everything is desperate in the cause of a people, we need not yet despair, if the spirit of resistance... | |
 | M. Farley Emerson - 1857 - 234 páginas
...rounds" of the papers, we find Lamartine's eulogy for women: " Women are more naturally heroic than men. All nations have, in their annals, some of those miracles of patriotism of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. "When all is desperate in a national cause, we... | |
 | 1858 - 336 páginas
...forty-four years of age at the time of her decease. JOAN OF ARC. 23* 269 JOAN OF ARC; THE WOMAN WARRIOR. ALL nations have in their annals some of those miracles...— a Cava in Spain, a Victoria Colonna in Italy, a Charlotte Corday in France. God forbid that they should be compared with each other. Judith and Charlotte... | |
 | 1858 - 348 páginas
...forty-four years of age at the time of her decease. JOAN OF ARC. 23* 269 JOAN OF ARC; THE WOMAN WARRIOR. ALL nations have in their annals some of those miracles...every thing is desperate in the cause of a people, \ve need not yet despair, if the spirit of resistance still subsists in the heart of a woman, whether... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 páginas
...imagination, and selfsacrifice from the heart. Women are therefore more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of those miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God." * Take dtljarles Jickns' ideal : " A woman who... | |
 | 1890 - 828 páginas
...imagination, and self sacrifice from the heart; women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of those miracles of patriotism of which woman is the instrument in the hand of God. When all is desperate in a national cause, we... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1918 - 386 páginas
...the light of France is seen to be the Light of the world. Lamartine in his study of Joan of Arc says, "All nations have in their annals some of those miracles...patriotism in which a woman is the instrument in the hands of God. When everything is desperate in the cause of a people, we need not yet despair, if the... | |
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