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Page 26 - Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 22 - ... shapely head. From her neck down she is hopelessly paralyzed ; not a limb can she move, not a finger can she raise ; with her whole body stiffened, as it were, into stone, she has lain there for twelve years upon her back. Everything that considerate thought can devise has been done to mitigate her lot. Two large looking-glasses are so arranged over her head as to reflect the view from each of the windows, and show the pleasant Surrey landscape stretching away as far as the Crystal Palace at...
Page 39 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Page 78 - Call'd me polluted : shall I kill myself? What help in that? I cannot kill my sin, If soul be soul; nor can I kill my shame; No, nor by living can I live it down. The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months, The months will add themselves and make the years, The years will roll into the centuries, And mine will ever be a name of scorn.
Page 67 - Oh ! my brethren, do ye at least, have pity upon me, for the hand of God hath touched me."§ For the same reason, and by analogous principles of symbolism, the arm, which is the emblem of God, is also made to figure the divine power collectively.
Page 231 - ... crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and, wherever practicable, at least double the number of men required are entered on the register. Such men are mostly resident boatmen, fishermen, or coast-guardmen. On every occasion of going afloat to save life, the coxswain and each of the crew receive alike from the funds of the institution (whether successful or not) 10s.
Page 29 - Man is the child of sorrow, and this world, In which we breathe, hath cares enough to plague us ; But it hath means withal to sooth these cares, And he who meditates on others' woes Shall in that meditation lose his own.
Page 22 - ... command a window on each side, a girl with a beautiful and intelligent face, lay stretched upon her back. A profusion of light brown hair surrounded her head and covered the pillow — alas ! the hair will never be gathered up to adorn that shapely head. From her neck down she is hopelessly paralyzed ; not a limb can she move, not a finger can she raise ; with her whole body stiffened, as it were, into stone, she has lain there for twelve years upon her back. Everything that considerate thought...
Page 26 - ... long, weary years. The male wards present much the same appearance as the female, except that the male patients are in a considerable minority — about one to three. Men are always worse patients than women ; but here even the men are cheerful and contented. An elderly gentleman, blind and paralyzed, after a very animated talk with us, related how, on the day before, he had celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of his admission into the hospital. 'Yes...