... 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 65by Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 79 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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