The Life of Florence Nightingale v. 2, Tom 2

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Macmillan, 1914
 

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Strona 351 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory ? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
Strona 18 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals,* no palaces, no schools; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Strona 435 - HOW to NURSE SICK CHILDREN; containing Directions which may be found of service to all who have charge of the Young. By CHARLES WEST, MD Second Edition. Fcp. 8vo.
Strona 448 - EASTERN HOSPITALS AND ENGLISH NURSES; The Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari. By A LADY VOLUNTEER. Third and Cheaper Edition, 1 vol. post 8vo. with Illustrations, 6s. bound. "A production which, not only in the subject-matter, but in its treatment, is filled with the purest and best evidences of womanly tenderness."— The Time*.
Strona 223 - Where shall I find God ? In myself. That is the true Mystical Doctrine. But then I myself must be in a state for Him to come and dwell in me. This is the whole aim of the Mystical Life...
Strona 118 - From her fayre head her fillet she undight, And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Strona 131 - How can any undervalue business habits ? as if anything could be done without them. She could do, and she did do, more of her Father's business in six hours than ordinary women do in six months, or than most of even the best women do in six days. But, besides this and including this, she...
Strona 32 - If the mortality is set down at 69 in 1000, it follows that, besides death by natural t causes, 61, or, taking the English standard, 60 head per 1000 of our troops perish in India annually. It is at that expense that we have held dominion there for a century ; a company out of every regiment has been sacrificed every twenty months. These companies fade away in the prime of life ; have few children ; and have to be replaced, at great cost, by successive shiploads of recruits.
Strona 15 - A apprendre; she could not even get a woman secretary; "they don't know the names of the Cabinet Ministers— they don't know which of the Churches has Bishops and which not." As for the spirit of self-sacrifice, well— Sidney Herbert and Arthur Clough were men, and they indeed had shown their devotion; but women—! She would mount three widow's caps "for a sign.
Strona 349 - THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CHARTER 361 and sympathy by the Matron of the London, hardly less than by her of St. Thomas's. Other nurse-training schools came into line, and a manifesto was issued announcing their intention to oppose any petition for a Charter. There was desultory skirmishing for some time between the Registrationists and anti - Registrationists. There was a lively polemic in the newspapers. There were as many fly-sheets and pamphlets as if it were a theological dispute in a University.1...

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