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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1869 Excerpt: ...Your grandmother, who was the most beautiful woman
I ever saw, the belle of the county all her young days, and the
model for artists' fancy sketching even in her old ones, as modest
as a violet and as honest as the sunshine, used to have the
prettiest little way when we girls were in our teens, and she
thought that we must be lectured a bit on youthful vanity, of
adding, in her quiet voice, smoothing down her black silk apron as
she spoke, 'But still it is a thing to be thankful for, my dear, to
have a comely countenance "But to return to the track and our
future bodies. We shall find them vastly convenient, undoubtedly,
with powers of which there is no dreaming. Perhaps they will be so
one with the soul that to will will be to do, --hindrance out of
the question. I, for instance, sitting here by you, and thinking
that I should like to be in Kansas, would be there. There is an
interesting bit of a hint in Daniel about Gabriel, who, 'being
caused to fly swiftly, touched him about the time of the evening
oblation.'" "But do you not make a very mater al kind of heaven out
of such suppositions?" "It depends upon what yor mean by 'matei
iaL' The term does not, to n.y thinking, imply degradation, except
so far as it is associated with sin. Dr. Chalmers has the right of
it, when he talks about 'spiritual materialism.' He says in his
sermon on the New Heavens and Earth, --which, by the way, you
should read, and from which I wish a few more of our preachers
would learn something, --that we 'forget that on the birth of
materialism, when it stood out in the freshness of those glories
which the great Architect of Nature had impressed upon it, that
then the "morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy.'" I do not...
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Gypsys Cousine Joy
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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R468
Discovery Miles 4 680
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Gypsy Breynton
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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Trixy - A Novel (Paperback)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Edited by Emily E. Vandette
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R703
Discovery Miles 7 030
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Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten
American author and women's rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
(1844-1911). The book decries the then-common practice of
vivisection, or scientic experiments on live animals. Though not
well known today, Phelps's 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar,
which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers
traumatized by the Civil War, was the century's second best-selling
American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Recently
scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps's significance.
In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early
animal rights movement in Phelps' influential campaign to introduce
legislation to regulate or end vivisection. Phelps not only
presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but
argues that training young doctors in vivisection makes them bad
physicians. Emily E. VanDette's introduction illuminates that
Phelps' protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays,
and speeches, was well ahead of its time. As contemporary authors
like Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna Haraway, Gary
Francione, and Carol J. Adams have extended her vision, they have
also created new audiences for her work.
1868. Phelps was the author of fifty-seven volumes of fiction,
poetry and essays. A Singular Life is one of her best known works.
The Gates Ajar is one of her major works. It begins: One week; only
one week today, this twenty-first of February. I have been sitting
here in the dark and thinking about it, till it seems so horribly
long and so horribly short; it has been such a week to live
through, and it is such a small part of the weeks that must be
lived through, that I could think no longer, but lighted my lamp,
and opened my desk to find something to do. See other titles by
this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Hedged In
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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R994
Discovery Miles 9 940
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Trixy (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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R994
Discovery Miles 9 940
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