Woman's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity, Volume 11909 - Women |
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Adult Suffrage Anti-Suffrage Anti-Suffragists asked Asquith audience Birmingham Bookstall by-election candidates chair committee room Common Cause constituency Council COUNTESS OF MAYO crowd Deansgate Arcade December deputation drawing-room meeting Editor The Common Eleanor Rathbone election address electors Elsie Inglis enfranchisement of women England favour Fawcett friends give Government Hall Helen Fraser Henry Fawcett Home hope interest Labour Lady Liberal Lord Manchester MARION PHILLIPS meeting was held Men's League ment militant Miss Abadam Monday movement National Union November October organiser paper Parliament Parliamentary party petition Philip Snowden political polling present President public meeting question Reform Bill resolution Road Secretary signatures Sir George Kemp Snowden speakers speech spoke Suffragists Thursday tion Town Tuesday Union of Women's Unionist Victoria Street voters W. H. Smith week woman Women's Franchise Women's Freedom League Women's Suffrage Women's Suffrage Societies workers
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Page 496 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 227 - We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Page 227 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 221 - Parliament, wherever words occur which import the masculine gender the same shall be held to include...
Page 496 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchants. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Page 496 - ... ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
Page 496 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Page 338 - The French Revolution may be considered as one of those manifestations of a general state of feeling among civilized mankind, produced by a defect of correspondence between the knowledge existing in society and the improvement or gradual abolition of political institutions.
Page 465 - That the action of the House of Lords in refusing to pass into law the financial provision made by this House for the service of the year is a breach of the Constitution and a usurpation of the rights of the Commons.
Page 315 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.