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Eliza Farnham
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“Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”
Eliza Farnham (1815–1864) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woman and Her Era (1864), pt. 2, ch. 1
“Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.”
Eliza Farnham (1815–1864) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woman and Her Era (1864), pt. 1, ch. 1
“The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”
Eliza Farnham (1815–1864) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woman and Her Era (1864), pt. 1, ch. 1
“San Francisco, I believe, has the most disagreeable climate and locality of any city on the globe. If the winter be not unusually wet, there is some delightful weather to be enjoyed. If it be, you are flooded, and the rainy season closes to give place to what is miscalled summer — a season so cold that you require more clothing than you did in January; so damp with fogs and mists that you are penetrated to the very marrow; so windy that if you are abroad in the afternoon it is a continual struggle. Your eyes are blinded, your teeth set on edge, and your whole person made so uncomfortable by the sand that has insinuated itself through your clothing, that you could not conceive it possible to feel a sensation of comfort short of a warm bath and shower. . . . What sort of end the unfortunates, who spend their lives there, can expect under such circumstances, one does not easily foresee.”
Eliza Farnham (1815–1864) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: California, In-doors and Out (1856)