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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.