 | Jeanne Boydston - 1988 - 400 Seiten
...minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state; — each and all may be cheered by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing...the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God. . . . [A]s it has been shown, that American women have a loftier position, and a more elevated object... | |
 | Gillian Brown - 1992 - 288 Seiten
...housekeepers as "agents in accomplishing the greatest work that was ever committed to human responsibility": "the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall...the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands." To Americans "is committed the grand, the responsible privilege, of exhibiting to the world, the beneficent... | |
 | Valerie Polakow - 1994 - 232 Seiten
...emphasized the moral superiority of womanhood, elevating motherhood to a glorious temple of self-sacrifice "whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands." 23 This ideal of domesticity and the separation of spheres was embraced by the domestic feminists of... | |
 | Valerie Polakow - 1994 - 232 Seiten
...emphasized the moral superiority of womanhood, elevating motherhood to a glorious temple of self-sacrifice "whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands."23 This ideal of domesticity and the separation of spheres was embraced by the domestic feminists... | |
 | Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - 1993 - 518 Seiten
...even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic...the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the 244 highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top- stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - 502 Seiten
...sustain a prosperous domestic state;— each and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they arc agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever...top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the moming stars, and shoutings of the sons of God. C. The Feminine Regeneration of Everyday Life •Mrs.... | |
 | William A. Gleason - 1999 - 476 Seiten
...in the "Conclusion" to Walden — that any woman, working at any labor, aids the greatest work ever committed to human responsibility: "It is the building...the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God" (14). In chapter 2, "Difficulties Peculiar to American Women," Beecher cites as impediments to the... | |
 | Wilma Mankiller - 1998 - 724 Seiten
...the nineteenth century. Catharine Beecher elevated motherhood to a glorious temple of self-sacrifice "whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands." In this midnineteenth-century discourse motherhood became a sacred calling in which the "true woman,"... | |
 | William E. Cain - 2000 - 298 Seiten
...and Stowe, American Woman's Home, 430). Beecher's Treatise exalted domesticity in millennial terms as the "building of a glorious temple, whose base shall...coextensive with the bounds of the earth, . . . whose splendor shall beam on all lands, . . . with new rejoicings of the morning stars" (Treatise, 14). Walden's... | |
 | Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson - 2001 - 332 Seiten
...cheered by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that was ever committed to human responsibility. It is the building...the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God. (Treatise, 14) Female domesticity is directed toward laying the foundation of this "glorious temple,"... | |
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It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands, and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest... 
