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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | - I remain, dear Madam, yours sincerely, | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | . DEAR MADAM, | 1 | 1,035 | 7 | 1,042 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 1 | 0 | text | 9 | EDINBURGH SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.—The Report issued at the end of 1868 recalls to the recollection of its readers that this Society was founded about three years ago through the exertions of Miss Bessie Parkes and Miss Emily Faithfull, on their visit to Edinburgh after attending the meetings of t... | 1 | 3,825 | 225 | 4,050 | B1C0R9 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 1 | 0 | title | 8 | LXXV.—FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | During the 24 years of which the result is given, at least 90 applicants in a month, on an average, have been provided with daily or weekly engagements, while of 661 who were seeking permanent situations, above 300 have found employment. The Society also co-operates with Emigration Associations, recommending applicants... | 1 | 2,923 | 769 | 3,692 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 1 | THE ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... | 1 | 4,203 | 205 | 4,408 | B1C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 4 | Vol. IV. January 1, 1860. No. 23. | 1 | 4,203 | 20 | 4,223 | B2C0R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 4,203 | 11 | 4,214 | B2C0R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 5 | Vol. IV.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 2 | 2 | text | 6 | 1. 1860.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 9 | I concluded my last paper by proposing to consider in the current number of this Journal those “commercial avocations, trades, and mechanical arts, in which it is to be hoped that women can engage with prudence and a fair chance of success;” but I have since learnt that a careful report on these several points is about... | 1 | 4,203 | 149 | 4,352 | B3C0R9 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 10 | I believe it may be fairly taken for granted that the public opinion of this country sets strongly in favor of increased avenues of employment being opened to women; to judge by the articles which appeared simultaneously in the weekly periodicals, and by the vivid reflection of popular feeling flashed back from country... | 1 | 4,203 | 252 | 4,455 | B3C0R10 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 11 | * The report will be published in the pages of this Journal. VOL. IV. | 1 | 4,203 | 18 | 4,221 | B3C0R11 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | title | 7 | XLIII.—WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO? | 1 | 4,203 | 14 | 4,217 | B3C0R7 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Whatever efforts may be made by a small set of people, by a society, or by a knot collected round a periodical like this, it is very evident that they can only set the movement going: really create independent activity far and wide, the first impetus will be of little avail.
But it seems to me that this subject cannot... | 1 | 3,563 | 478 | 4,041 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Consider the great difference between the position of young men and young women in this respect; the latter have only their pocket money, sometimes twenty pounds, sometimes thirty pounds a year; small sums varying according to the means of the middle-class parent, and to the number of his daughters. It is all they can ... | 1 | 4,203 | 141 | 4,344 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and many a woman lives to middle age under her parents' roof with no more money in her purse at one given time than ten pounds.
But every respectable tradesman manages to start his son; it is an item in his life's expenditure for which he has all along calculated. He knew he must do it when the boy was born, and wheth... | 1 | 3,179 | 611 | 3,790 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Moreover, fathers would then gain greatly in the relief of part of their present anxiety, for they certainly love their daughters, and often suffer greatly from fears for their future, though they may not have the courage to break through the social chains which cause those fears. If a girl were taught how to make capi... | 1 | 4,203 | 67 | 4,270 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | instead of merely how to live upon its interest, a much less sum would suffice her: and the father who gave or left her a thousand pounds, would bestow upon her a benefit of which he could not calculate the results, instead of a miserable pittance of thirty or at most fifty pounds per annum.
In France it is considered... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,309 | 7,027 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | fairly in their own minds. Is marriage a business relation, or is it not a business relation; or is it, as most people in the depth of their hearts consider it, a judicious mixture of the two? Whichever way you decide you are on the horns of a dilemma. If it is in ever so small a degree a business, then the French fath... | 1 | 4,203 | 301 | 4,504 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Although not strictly incidental to the subject, I should like to observe in passing, that no wise thinkers, however anxious to extend the spheres of employment for women, are satisfied with the state of things among the working classes which tempts the mothers of families away from their homes; and this on the plain... | 1 | 4,203 | 469 | 4,672 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for a much larger portion of the middle class than will condescend to accept it. I think it is absurd to keep servants and to bring daughters up to idleness and penury, unable to do household work, and disgusted at the idea of marrying in a rank where it would be necessary to do it. I think that the way in which all gi... | 1 | 3,115 | 597 | 3,712 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | caused by the housewife's absence from the working man's home, the dirt, discomfort, hurry, and ill-prepared meals, are more than sufficient reasons why every woman who has deliberately chosen to take upon herself certain heavy moral obligations, should fulfil them scrupulously to the exclusion of all temptations in ot... | 1 | 4,203 | 73 | 4,276 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | never heard a word about the unfitness of their pursuits, or any tendency in these to separate them from the men of their own rank. The real truth is that very nearly three fourths of the adult unmarried women of this country, above the age of twenty, are independent factors; that they marry easily and happily from thi... | 1 | 2,987 | 577 | 3,564 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This brings me to the third great want which seems to me to hindder women from possessing themselves of a fair share of the domain of business: the want of efficient female superintendence in | 1 | 4,203 | 41 | 4,244 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | played. If lack of capital prevents grown up daughters from leaving home and starting for themselves, lack of what they consider due and proper protection certainly weighs heavily with parents against parting with young girls, allowing them to be apprenticed to a trade or hired as clerks. In the minds of many men, this... | 1 | 2,859 | 631 | 3,490 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | time and trouble and money over schemes of less practical import. If they would but give direct countenance to all such new classes and workshops, as are opened for those who would otherwise be governless, it would go a long way to legalise the change in the minds of men.
From the first days in which political economy... | 1 | 2,859 | 663 | 3,522 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the precious material out of which working women are to be made, and not leave the introduction of educated girls into business to the chances of the business world alone. Almost everything depends on the moral tone communicated from the head-quarters of each separate sphere of employment; just as in the beginning of t... | 1 | 3,371 | 554 | 3,925 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | We will now take a cursory glance over the immense field of general charitable exertion covered by this indefatigable Sister of Charity. If anybody seemed to have a right to be exclusive in the bestowal of her good offices, it was she to whom so much poverty and misery | 1 | 4,075 | 61 | 4,136 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIV.—LA SŒUR ROSALIE. (Concluded from page 234.) | 1 | 4,075 | 22 | 4,097 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | had been confided as a special charge. The Faubourg Saint Marceau, with its depressed population and its individual institutions for relief, might seem enough to occupy a busy woman's life. But she found time for more. One sometimes hears it said that the people who have the most to do make the most leisure; they are m... | 1 | 3,179 | 651 | 3,830 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | For indigent respectability she maintained the tenderest delicacy. When sometimes she saw some one who had written a tale of misery, too shy to speak about it when he came to her house, she would send him on an errand for her to a distant street, with a packet addressed—to himself! She had a mysterious faculty for divi... | 1 | 4,203 | 73 | 4,276 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | living in a distant part of the town, and hiding their misery as they thought from every human eye. would find assistance drop upon | 1 | 4,075 | 29 | 4,104 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | them as from Heaven, from the hand of La Soeur Rosalie. She was particularly kind to young men who came up from the provinces to seek employment in Paris. When these lads called on her, with a letter of recommendation and a mother's blessing as their sole worldly goods, she fairly adopted them if she saw worth in their... | 1 | 2,923 | 634 | 3,557 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | room; young students of law and medicine, of the military career and of education. She pressed them all into her service. Nay, she made the poorest help one another, and there were very many of the rich who came to La Soeur Rosalie for help which none else could be stow so wisely. “My sisters!” she would sometimes say ... | 1 | 4,203 | 415 | 4,618 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | What was even perhaps more remarkable, was her influence over philosophical men of the world, whose intellects refused to bow down before her faith, but who were yet swayed by her character. The chief physician of the Bicêtre, an unbeliever, on his death-bed could not be induced to see his family; from whom he wished t... | 1 | 4,203 | 308 | 4,511 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the general. Being at once introduced, she threw herself at his feet, and implored him to spare the soldier's life. "You know him then, and are attached to him!" cried the officer, seeing how ardent was her prayer. "Yes," said she, "I love him as one of my brothers bought with the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I ... | 1 | 4,075 | 98 | 4,173 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | the condemned man, and returned home, astonished at her own success and scared at her own audacity.
We find a chapter of the memoir devoted to “La Sœur Rosalie’s Parlor,” which apartment, small, shabby, and ill-lighted, was the very centre of her activity; an old paper on the wall, stained by damp, and gnawed by the m... | 1 | 3,179 | 593 | 3,772 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in almsgiving. A Spanish nobleman, the Marquis de Valdegamas, who had turned from intellectual infidelity to Christianity, was another of her friends. Sent as ambassador to Paris, he was courted and beloved, even by those who had no sympathy with his rigid opinions; but his social position gave him small satisfaction, ... | 1 | 2,859 | 663 | 3,522 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | imperial visit, she had been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, to the great delight of all the neighbourhood, which considered that it had been individually decorated in her person.
It will be easily conceived from this account of her various visitors, that her powers were multiplied by every fresh conn... | 1 | 2,923 | 703 | 3,626 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " It was in 1832, that the cholera was signalled as at the threshold | 1 | 4,203 | 20 | 4,223 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of France. Superstitious terror marked its progress and awaited its advent, and La Sœur Rosalie, greatly alarmed at the havoc it would inevitably make among her depressed flock of neighbours, trembled for them, for her nuns, and for all the world. But the day on which the first victim was struck down saw the end of her... | 1 | 4,203 | 432 | 4,635 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In 1849, when cholera once more appeared, it created less terror, but caused more mortality in the Faubourg Saint Marceau than at the time of its first invasion. In a single day, one hundred and fifty deaths were reported in the parish of St. Médard, and children were not counted in. For a whole week, the Sisters never... | 1 | 4,203 | 302 | 4,505 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | them perished by the dread disease. One only was attacked, and she singularly enough was the only one who had not actually come in contact with cholera, having been confined to the house with an injury to her leg which made it impossible for her to move! During this time of public distress, her auxiliaries from other p... | 1 | 4,203 | 222 | 4,425 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the other scenes of public panic so fatally known to the inhabitants of Paris—revolutionary riots—La Soeur Rosalie exercised a no less remarkable ascendancy. She had no sympathy with promises of liberty which dawned in bloodshed, and it will easily be conceived that the tumults which stopped trade, cut off profits, ... | 1 | 4,011 | 467 | 4,478 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tomorrow we are going to pillage the archbishop's palace." But she, as usual, defended the reputation of the men of her beloved faubourg with characteristic energy and warmth; saying: "They did not know we had those holy priests in our house, but if they had they would certainly have helped us to protect them;" and it ... | 1 | 3,435 | 595 | 4,030 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Monsieur le préfet," replied La Soeur Rosalie, "I am a Sister of Charity, and carry no political flag. I help the unfortunate whenever I find them, and I promise that if ever you are pursued yourself and come to me to help you, you shall not be turned away." M. Gisquet could not resist smiling, and perhaps in his hear... | 1 | 4,203 | 123 | 4,326 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for once, but entreating her "not to begin again." "I will not promise," said La Soeur Rosalie. The very next week one of the chiefs of La Vendée came to return thanks for food and shelter bestowed on several of his companions in misfortune, and actually met at her threshold one of the emissaries of the police. He was ... | 1 | 3,563 | 583 | 4,146 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " In the very thick of the struggle, an officer who had been fighting against the insurgents found himself cut off from his men, and, flying down the Rue de l'Epée-de-Bois, rushed through the open door of the Maison de Secours, and took refuge in the midst of the Sisters. The insurgents had recognised him, and followin... | 1 | 4,203 | 144 | 4,347 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mingled expressions of respect for her whom they called their “Mother,” with the most atrocious threats against the officer “He has massacred our comrades, we must have his death; we want our prisoner.” La Sœur expressed her horror at the thought of the blood of an married man staining the soil of her court. “We won’t ... | 1 | 2,859 | 677 | 3,536 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 22 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | spring, but made him think of poverty and suffering, and fell with the suddenness of a thunder-bolt upon Paris and upon the poor. A sharp attack of pleurisy proved too much for the frame which had withstood fifty years of incessant labor; and at the age of sixty-nine La Sour Rosalie sank quietly, and, at the last, pain... | 1 | 2,923 | 653 | 3,576 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Does the reader ask in what consisted the fascinating power of this life, the question is answered from Paris that it consisted in her doing the commonest duties better than anybody else. She was only a poor Sister, hidden in one of the least important positions of her order; Supérieure of a very little community in th... | 1 | 4,075 | 276 | 4,351 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | WAR! War! is the cry to which our ears have now become accustomed. Since 1848, we have seen kings and princes rushing to and fro; crowns taken off and crowns put on; kingdoms repudiating their rulers and entreating strangers to be their masters; plains saturated with the blood of brave men, villages left without inhabi... | 1 | 4,075 | 230 | 4,305 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLV.—OUR TEN THOUSAND.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | face to face and shoot each other down; or with shot and shell scatter each other's ashes to the winds. The only advance we seem to have made, is that of murdering our neighbours more quickly and more surely than in the times of bows and arrows, spears and armed chariots. This warring of nation against nation as yet we... | 1 | 3,371 | 560 | 3,931 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Emerging as we now seem to be from the denseness of a material age, the latent and flickering spiritualism, that Divine element which no age or time, however antagonistic, can extinguish, is in manifold forms gushing upwards, struggling for vent, as from supposed extinct volcanoes the heavenward flames again burst fort... | 1 | 4,203 | 114 | 4,317 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | walked fearless in the midst of the plague, consoling the dying, and ministering to the living, so we in our day are invited to follow in their footsteps. Happily no pestilence is within our borders, but there are diseases as deadly to be dealt with, and ignorance and vice have to be assailed in all their strongholds. ... | 1 | 3,755 | 495 | 4,250 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Years since, when aware of what was done by women in other countries vowed to the service of religion, we marvelled why in Protestant England no Sisterhoods for similar purposes existed, without vows, as vows binding for life were repugnant to the national mind: why our works of charity and mercy were performed (if we ... | 1 | 4,203 | 165 | 4,368 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | than of good, seeing that injudicious almsgiving is hurtful, promoting too often in the recipient indolent abjectness or servility, rather than stimulating as an inducement to active industry and a spirit of independence. We believe that many in all ranks are now prepared to accept the idea of women uniting for purpose... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,334 | 7,052 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sent to the Crimea during the war, and there had the pleasure of frequently working conjointly with Miss Nightingale. Highly educated and mistress of several languages her services were required in other ways beside nursing the sick or wounded. She took the fever while there, but recovered, and returned to London to re... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,331 | 7,049 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | feel it to be distinctly their vocation enrol themselves for that high calling: we are not all able to walk on the mountain tops, and in the lowly plains of every-day duties there is likewise true work to done. Neither let it be supposed that our married sisters are not included among those called upon to perform good ... | 1 | 4,139 | 420 | 4,559 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;— What shall we wish you, oh reader dear? What do you want for your Happy New Year? People of every age and state Have somewhat they fain would ask of fate, If you had but a Slave of the Lamp or the Ring, And could rub him up instantly,—what should he bring? Whatever it be, if we ... | 1 | 4,075 | 124 | 4,199 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVI.—NEW YEAR'S WISHES.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 29 | 0 | 0 | title | 1 | NEW YEAR'S WISHES. | 1 | 2,695 | 8 | 2,703 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 29 | 2 | 0 | text | 3 | That virtue and learning, hand in hand, May fill her councils and rule her land, That the sky of her life be bright above her, And her days be long with the lieges that love her. We'll wish that the Lords may pass good laws, And the Commons be strong in each righteous cause, That Army and Navy alike may be The best of ... | 2 | 5,718 | 708 | 6,426 | B2C0R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 29 | 2 | 0 | title | 2 | NEW YEAR'S WISHES. | 1 | 2,695 | 8 | 2,703 | B2C0R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 29 | 2 | 2 | text | 4 | THE EDITORS.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE "STANDARD."
SIR,—I am sorry to see that the "Standard" has been led astray by the "Times" in its remarks on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" article on the "Times" ar... | 1 | 745 | 2,000 | 2,745 | B2C2R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | (Concluded from page 256.)
Grand and impressive as the scenery is on the north coast of Scotland, it pales before the romantic beauty of the west, whether our rambles now lead us, via Scourie, Assynt, and Ullapool to Loch Maree, a road but little known. Among the few travellers who have taken this route, following the... | 1 | 3,051 | 623 | 3,674 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XLVII.—RAMBLES NORTHWARD. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | insisted upon her remaining in the room till the dangerous operation was completed. Cape Wrath seems greatly to have impressed this redoubtable hero, who, we were told, made as much fuss about getting wet in a boat on the Kyle of Sloy as though he had been a delicate young girl, and insisted upon possetts and hot bed b... | 1 | 2,859 | 677 | 3,536 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | arches, some rough and ragged, others smooth and polished as marble. The island is formed of red sandstone, “a highly comminuted and beautifully grained conglomerate” overlying the surface. It is covered with fine short grass, pastured by sheep and goats, but is wholly unsuited to agricultural purposes. The view from t... | 1 | 2,923 | 748 | 3,671 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the memoried pictures of these rembles northward, you must have closed the weary pages long ago. Alas! I am neither poet nor painter, I can only see and feel with the ordinary senses of ordinary human beings, but these have revealed to me such a world of beauty and grandeur at home, that if I can persuade others to see... | 1 | 2,859 | 674 | 3,533 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | materials, position, or character." Of these mountains Suil Veinn is the most remarkable, resembling a sugar-loaf both near and afar off, it rears its lofty head on high, ebony black when storms are about, cold and glittering in sunshine, "a solitary and enormous beacon, rising to the clouds from the far extended ocean... | 1 | 4,075 | 77 | 4,152 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | which surround it."
Of these mountains we obtained numerous and varied views as we proceeded on our journey, keeping still to the coast despite the difficulties we were told awaited us by this route in the shape of indifferent accommodation, bad roads, and difficulty of conveyance. The long drought we were informed wa... | 1 | 3,115 | 627 | 3,742 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | son—the beds comfortable, and our hostess obliging and civil, so that we ended by thinking we might have been worse off, and that it was shame to someone somewhere that so beautiful a spot should attract so little attention, as to allow of its houses and inhabitants being neglected as we found them. Ullapoo has rare na... | 1 | 2,859 | 678 | 3,537 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL. IV.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the little town,—which runs along the loch and is not unlike some portions of the Chiasja at Naples,—past the harbour, and out on the long steep hill by the lake's side; but no sooner did we commence the ascent, than the back seat, uncomfortable to begin with, grew altogether unbearable, and the horse coming to a sudde... | 1 | 2,923 | 699 | 3,622 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ----At length we heard the distant sound of wheels growing nearer | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and nearer till Macgregor triumphantly drove into sight with a strong tax-cart which looked indeed "like business," the mare trotting out with a long full swing. Once more under way Macgregor desiring to inspire us with confidence in his horse told us how she had been "head-lashing" with other horses on the mountain th... | 1 | 2,923 | 695 | 3,618 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | only for the hale and active, and for such among “the gentler sex,” as can stow away clothes enough in a moderate sized carpet bag to last for several weeks. A good stock of clean linen, and strong boots, with an extra dress-skirt in case of a wetting, forming all the allowable supply.
Polewe Inn, at the head of Loch ... | 1 | 2,859 | 673 | 3,532 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In one of the islands of Loch Maree, or Saint Mary's Lake, is a miraculous spring; held to perform wonderful cures in cases of insanity. A few years since, the shepherd of a neighbouring farm tried its effect upon a favorite and valuable dog who had gone mad, and report says, with success; but the patron saint of this ... | 1 | 2,859 | 673 | 3,532 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | our arrival while the elder sister performed a hasty toilette, was, it seemed, frightened out of her wits, and said the first thing that came into her head, sticking to it afterwards from sheer nervousness. Under the auspices of her sister the fire soon burnt brightly, a neat clean cloth was laid, and by the time we we... | 1 | 2,859 | 668 | 3,527 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | further north, go where we have been, and you will find the most florid description tame in face of the grand and impressive scenes nature here lavishes with so prodigal a hand, that, to convey any idea of what they are, we have been obliged to have recourse to comparisons with the world-known and world-acknowledged be... | 1 | 4,203 | 93 | 4,296 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | BY DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.
I AM often consulted by young ladies in relation to the way in which a woman may enter the medical profession; I therefore willingly comply with the suggestion of friends, to write down the results of my experience as to the best method of study that can at present be pursued by a woman who... | 1 | 4,011 | 384 | 4,395 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVIII.—LETTER TO YOUNG LADIES DESIROUS OF STUDYING MEDICINE. | 1 | 4,203 | 27 | 4,230 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | When possessed of these qualifications, the student must look forFour Years' ward to four years of special medical study, the last two Medical Study necessarysaryspent abroad.
Division of these Four Years I suggest the following division of these four years. The first to be spent at home, i.e. wherever the student may... | 1 | 3,949 | 355 | 4,304 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Details of this let me say a few words on each of these periods. the first year's private study is needed; not only for the good First Year. of the study, but as a test of the student's own purpose, when being in no way committed to any future plan, she can drop the whole matter if it do not suit her taste, etc. It is ... | 1 | 3,949 | 334 | 4,283 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | physiology, and chemistry might form the commencement, and the subjects for examination. One piece of advice I would give the student; make your study as practical as possible; do not rely on simple reading. If you study anatomy, try and get access to some little museum; see the bones themselves, study the prepared ske... | 1 | 2,859 | 658 | 3,517 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | tion will be invaluable to you, and the vastly increased medical experience which you will possess after a six months' residence there, will fully repay you for the immense discomforts of the position. You will see every variety of midwifery practice, perform a large amount yourself, and acquire the skilful touch so ne... | 1 | 2,987 | 571 | 3,558 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 332
LETTER TO YOUNG LADIES. | 1 | 4,203 | 15 | 4,218 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | At a recent meeting of the _Académie des Sciences_ of Paris, M. Bertrand and M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire presented to their fellow academicians a modest-looking portfolio filled with papers; the offering of the relatives of their deceased writer, to the learned body. This offering was received by the Academy with great r... | 1 | 3,051 | 587 | 3,638 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XLIX.—A LEARNED LADY.
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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the aid of this sole guide and teacher, gave herself up to the investigation of mathematical questions with an ardor that no difficulties could check, devoting to the pursuit of her favorite study, every moment that she could withdraw from the oversight of her parents. The persistence with which she continued to follow... | 1 | 2,923 | 579 | 3,502 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 | 4,203 | 205 | 4,408 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | During a late visit to Aberdeen, the meeting of the British Association, the Prince Consort's admirable address, the fine new Music Hall, the far-famed bridge of Dow, the treasures of the Archaeological collection, the ceremony which made Lord John Russell a freeman of that city, and the sanitary movement then agitatin... | 1 | 3,243 | 623 | 3,866 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | L.—THE ABERDEEN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
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