Woman in the Nineteenth Century

by Margaret Fuller

 

WOMAN

IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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BY S. MARGARET FULLER.

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⁠"Frei durch Vernunft, stark durch Gesetze,
Durch Sanftmuth gross, und reich durch Schätze,
Die lange Zeit dein Busen dir verschwieg."

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⁠"I meant the day-star should not brighter rise,
Nor lend like influence from its lucent seat;
⁠I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet,
Free from that solemn vice of greatness, pride ;
⁠I meant each softest virtue there should meet,
Fit in that softer bosom to reside;
⁠Only a (heavenward and instructed) soul
I purposed her, that should, with evea powers,
⁠The rock, the spindle, and the shears control
Of destiny, and spin her own free hours."

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NEW-YORK:

GREELEY & McELRATH, 160 NASSAU-STREET

W. Osborn, Printer, 88 William-street.

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1845.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,

BY S. MARGARET FULLER,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

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Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Appendix