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AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS. 153
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quaker family of Philadelphia , which has behind an - cratic ancestry . When , more than thirty years ago t , a t Com the
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leader where w of as the the Hicksite largest Q branch uaker was Community the young in preacher that country , Lucre , the tia , It
Mott chiefl , who ha throug s been h her called infl t uence he u female that the Theodore leading force Parker s . " the
w H icks it pation e branch y _ojiite were different at an from early that day which brough lias t to been a service gained of
from eman the or more quietism since of the the writer Ortho first dox . listened It has to been the some eloquence thirteen of
years this admirable woman . She was then nearly fifty years of age perhaps of especiall a most , but being refined in the rem beauty very arkabl , ri the pe erfect g shap low e of and her h curve er powers bri of ht . grey her She head eyes was
and full of vivacity a y high singularl intelligence fascinating . y Her p voice , The had vast a blended crowd g sat solemnity before
her motionless and absorbed y ; for . no mind could fail to be impressed and swayed , even , by her at once calm and have nervous
statement heard whose . forte Mrs . Mott is _logic is the at the only sam female e time orator one cannot I listen ever
; Without A later feeling character that it who is the has log arisen ic of in " the America devout reason much . " to very
the Miss disgust Anne Dickinson of the corresponden to whose eloquence t of the the London present , Times adminis , is
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American Women And Hospitals. 153
AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/9/
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