 But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure : she embarks her whole soul...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4571863Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellowmen. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives lor empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth hef sympathies on adventure... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 lehte
...for space in the world's thoughts, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 lehte
...10 A handsome woman is a jewel ; a good woman is a treasure. — Saadi. 11 A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1882 - 656 lehte
...for space in the world's thoughts, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a. woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambitionstrives for empire ; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 lehte
...— Owen FelthamA woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world. . . . She sends forth her sympathies on adventure, she embarks...hopeless, — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. — Washington Irving. (4) The kindness of simple manners. Superfluous asseverations are the product... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thoughts, and dominion over his fellowmen. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her nature seeks for love and kindness. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 104 lehte
...can "fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, and he at rest." her world: it is there her amhition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks...treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she emharks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 lehte
...it is there her avari«e seeks for hidden treasures. Khe sends forth her sympathies on adventures ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her rase is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. 'io a man the disappointment of love may... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 522 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 lehte
...history and to self-sacrifice. 5884 Leigh Hunt : Table-Talk. Mrs. Siddons. A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world:...hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. 5885 Irving : The Sketch-Bfit'lC. The Broken Heart. Nature has given women so much power that the law... | |
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