Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth attention and consideration, although they may not always receive unrestricted approbation. Moreover, it is a novelty to have a woman speaking in Sanders Theatre. Mrs. Livermore, we believe, is to be the first woman who has ever spoken there, nay, even the first who has ever thus publicly addressed a Harvard assembly. The lecture to-night, therefore, will be of twofold interest, and we think and hope that the college will...
...While there he informs us: "I am dressed in green and gold. I have my chaise, in which I sit alone like Mr. Gray, and Thomas rides by me in a claret-colored suit with a silver-laced hat. If she can still remain indifferent. she is not the woman I thought...
This certainly indicates despair or madness, but no! His wounded affections were soon healed, and shortly, he writes that: "I am indeed glad to be rid of her," and proceeds to renew a correspondence he had formerly held with a "charming Dutch woman." This affection, and still another, he quickly wearies of, and then he falls head over ears in love with a young girl whom he calls "la belle Irlandaise." "I am exceedingly lucky," he exclaims joyfully, "to have escaped the insensible Miss B. for now I have seen the finest creature that ever was formed, la belle Irlandaise...
...after his wife's death, he writes that he is to meet a certain "young lady of about seven-and-twenty. Liely and gay, but of excellent principles, insomuch that she reads prayers every Sunday evening to the servants in her father's family. 'Let me see such a woman' cried I; and accordingly I am to see her. She has refused young and fine gentlemen. 'Bravo' cried I, 'we see then what her taste is'. Here then I am my flattering self." A few months later he writes, "you must know I have had several matrimonial schemes of late...
...vexations which will happen in the intercourse of life, you will be frightened to take upon you the serious charge of the father of a family; but if you think of the comforts of a home, where you are a sort of sovereign, the kind endearment of an amiable woman, who has no wish but to make you happy, then marriage is truly the condition in which true felicity is to be found." This is orthodox enough, but Boswell goes on to add frankly, "I think we may strike a good medium." Just what this means, he proceeds to show...