Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human KindnessW.S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1883 - 392 pages |
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... Sisters of Charity " were the direct ancestresses of our Sisters of Mercy , Sisters of the Poor , District Visitors ... Sister Dora , and Florence Nightingale . To women , -such women as felt no vocation for a married life , but were ...
... Sisters of Charity " were the direct ancestresses of our Sisters of Mercy , Sisters of the Poor , District Visitors ... Sister Dora , and Florence Nightingale . To women , -such women as felt no vocation for a married life , but were ...
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... , her self - control , her quiet reserve of power , would have seen that for an extraordinary career she was in every way fitted . Her devotion of herself to others " SISTER DORA'S " STRENGTH OF PURPOSE . 379 was 378 GOOD SAMARITANS .
... , her self - control , her quiet reserve of power , would have seen that for an extraordinary career she was in every way fitted . Her devotion of herself to others " SISTER DORA'S " STRENGTH OF PURPOSE . 379 was 378 GOOD SAMARITANS .
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... SISTER DORA'S " STRENGTH OF PURPOSE . 379 was early manifested . As she grew in years , she grew in strength ; became a good and daring horsewoman , riding across country and following the ... SISTER DORA'S" STRENGTH OF PURPOSE. 379 ...
... SISTER DORA'S " STRENGTH OF PURPOSE . 379 was early manifested . As she grew in years , she grew in strength ; became a good and daring horsewoman , riding across country and following the ... SISTER DORA'S" STRENGTH OF PURPOSE. 379 ...
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... Sister Dora " soon became a household word in Walsall , and a type of self - sacrifice and ardent Christian zeal . Walsall , as everybody knows , is a large and populous town situated on the borders of " the Black Country , " amid a ...
... Sister Dora " soon became a household word in Walsall , and a type of self - sacrifice and ardent Christian zeal . Walsall , as everybody knows , is a large and populous town situated on the borders of " the Black Country , " amid a ...
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... Sister Dora was proud of her power , and not insensible to the homage she received . But against this admixture of human weakness she strove very resolutely ; and after all , it does but bring her nearer to our sympathies . Otherwise ...
... Sister Dora was proud of her power , and not insensible to the homage she received . But against this admixture of human weakness she strove very resolutely ; and after all , it does but bring her nearer to our sympathies . Otherwise ...
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Page 166 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 75 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 102 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 401 - Tell them to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh, when no man can work.
Page 174 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 278 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 32 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 299 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...
Page 299 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 80 - And there should be no greater comfort to christian persons than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain ; he entered not into his glory before he was crucified.