 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 Seiten
...unusual in a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Héger. " Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her...wishes, or her own sense of right, were concerned. ' She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. Heger, in speaking of her. ' Her powerful... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 384 Seiten
...unusual in a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Heger. Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her...reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. Be pt^j^wtd to read to tis (A Hbe most celebrated French a« (iiasamx de la Tigne'spoean... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 376 Seiten
...a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Heger. Impairing the force of this gift, was her stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse...reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. " She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. Heger in speaking of her.... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1859 - 338 Seiten
...unusual in a man , and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Heger. Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her...reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. "She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. Heger in speaking of her.... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 Seiten
...a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Heger. Impairing the force of this gift, was her stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse...reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. " She should have been a man—a great navigator," said M. H6ger in speaking of her.... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 Seiten
...unusual in a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. He'ger. Impairing the force of this gift was a stubborn tenacity . of will, which rendered...reasoning where her own wishes or her own sense of right was concerned. "She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. He'ger in speaking of her.... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 Seiten
...unusual in a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M. Heger. Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her...reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. " She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. He'ger in speaking of her.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 412 Seiten
...woman. The force of this gift, however, was impaired by her stubborn tenacity of will, which blinded her to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. " She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. Heger, in speaking of her,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 Seiten
...woman. The force of this gift, however, was impaired by her stubborn tenacity of will, which blinded her to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. " She should have been a man — a great navigator," said M. Heger, in speaking of her,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 242 Seiten
...woman. The force of this gift, however, was impaired by her stubborn tenacity of will, which blinded her to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, were concerned. He fancied that she might have been a great historian. Her faculty of imagination was such, her views... | |
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Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. She should have been a man — a great navigator, 
