Excerpt from Ann Phillips: Wife of Wendell Phillips; A Memorial Sketch That still my wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew. With all this ardent admiration of her husband's powers, and modest depreciation of her own, she possessed a keen insight, a sure instinct, and a sound judgment as to measures and principles, which he ever recognized and deferred to, and she often discussed with him, before he left her to at tend a convention or deliver an address, the aspects of the question which she felt he ought ...
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Excerpt from Ann Phillips: Wife of Wendell Phillips; A Memorial Sketch That still my wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew. With all this ardent admiration of her husband's powers, and modest depreciation of her own, she possessed a keen insight, a sure instinct, and a sound judgment as to measures and principles, which he ever recognized and deferred to, and she often discussed with him, before he left her to at tend a convention or deliver an address, the aspects of the question which she felt he ought specially to urge and emphasize. He cared more for her criticism and her approval than for all the plau dits of the admiring thousands who were stirred by his marvellous oratory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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