The Maxims of Noah: Derived from His Experience With Women Both Before and After the Flood as Given in Counsel to His Son Japhet (Classic Reprint) Gelett Burgess

Susanna Haswell, Rowson, the author of "Charlotte Temple," was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1761. Her father was William Haswell, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and her mother Susanna Musgrave. In 1769 she came to America with her father, who settled at Nantasket, in Massachusetts, and remained here until 1777, She wrote, nearly twenty years afterward, in an introduction to one of her books:1" It was my fate, at a period when memory can scarcely retain the smallest trace of the occurrence, to accompany my father to Boston, in New England, where he had married aTable of Contents Why This Edition vii; Historical and Biographical Introduction xvii; I Mrs Rovvson xix; II The Book xxix; III Charlotte xxxviii; IV The Tombstone xlix; V Montraville lxx; VI The Last Days of Montresor and Mon-; traville lxxxiii; VII A Contribution to a Bibliography xci; CHARLOTTE TEMPLE VOLUME !; Chapter page; The Author"s Preface 3; I A Boarding-School 7; II Domestic Concerns 13; III Unexpected Misfortunes 21; IV Change of Fortune 30; V Such Things Are 40; VI An Intriguing Teacher 47; VII Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in; the Female Bosom SS; VIII Domestic Pleasures Planned 63; IX We Know Not What a Day May Bring; Forth 71; "X When We Have Excited Curiosity it Is But an Act of Good Nature to Gratify it 78; XI Conflict of Love and Duty83; xin 89; Nature"s last, best gift: Creature in whom excell"d whatever could To sight or thought be named 1 Holy, divine! good, amiable and sweet I How thou art fall"nl-; XIII Cruel Disappointment97; XIV Maternal Sorrow105; XV Embarkation112; XVI Necessary Digression118; XVII A Wedding125; VOLUME 11; XVIII Reflections 3; XIX A Mistake Discovered 11; XX 19; " Virtue never appears60 amiable as when reaching forth her hand to raise a fallen sister"-Chapter of Accidents; XXI28; Teach me to feel another"s woe; To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show; That mercy show to me; - Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Maxims of Noah: Derived from His Experience With Women Both Before and After the Flood as Given in Counsel to His Son Japhet (Classic Reprint) (Gelett Burgess)