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" ... to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any 'mission' or usefulness at all. It is equally unfitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick-room... "
Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not - Page 65
by Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 79 pages
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Punch, Volume 38

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1800 - 568 pages
...impressing U[ion us ' Woman's particular worth and general misslonoriness,' to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any •...at all. It is equally unfitted for all poetic and domestic purposes. A man is now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick room than a...
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Punch, Volumes 38-39

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1860 - 556 pages
...missionariness,' to see that the dress of women is daily moro and more unfitting them for any • inimion,' or usefulness at all. It is equally unfitted for all poetic and domestic purposes. A man U now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick room than a...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 107

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1860 - 576 pages
...upon us " woman's " " particular worth aud general missionariness," to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any " mission...unfitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man ia now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick loom than a woman. Compelled by her...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 124

1862 - 522 pages
...impressing upon us ' woman's particular worth and general missionariness,' to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any 'mission'...a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick-room than a woman. Compelled by her dress, every woman now either shuffles or waddles ; only a...
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Dinners and dinner-parties [by G.V.].

G. V - 1862 - 136 pages
...impressing upon us 'woman's particular worth and general missionariness,' to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any ' mission'...a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick-room than a woman. Compelled by her dress, every woman now either shuffles or waddles ; only a...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 55

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 620 pages
...worth and general missionariuess," to see that the dress of women is daily more and more uufitting them for any " mission" or usefulness at all. It is...a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick-room than a woman. Compelled by her dress, every woman now either shuffles or waddles ; only a...
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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the ...

James Et Al Parton - History - 1868 - 656 pages
...the wearing of •which she styles "an absurd and hideous custom." "The dress of women," she adds, "is daily more and more unfitting them for any mission...unfitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man i& now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sickroom than a woman. Compelled by her dress,...
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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the ...

James Parton - Suffragists - 1869 - 702 pages
...the wearing of which she styles " an absurd and hideous custom.." " The dress of women," she adds, "is daily more and more unfitting them for any mission...unfitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man in now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sickroom than a woman. Compelled by her dress,...
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The Philology of the English Tongue

John Earle - English language - 1871 - 644 pages
...impressing upon us woman's particular worth and general missionariness — to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any mission or usefulness at all.' — Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing. naturalness. ' The unaffected country naturalness of the...
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The Philology of the English Tongue

John Earle - English language - 1873 - 736 pages
...impressing upon us woman's particular worth and general missionariness — to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any mission or usefulness at all.' — Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing. naturalness, ' The unaffected country naturalness of the...
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