This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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| 50968 | Truly, sir, are you not from Bordeaux? |
| 50968 | And in this century, when the unexpected plays such an important role, may not war bring about the most sudden and unforseen results? |
| 50968 | And is not this very natural when the scarcity of the nurses is compared with the enormous number of the wounded? |
| 50968 | Are there not international societies which are occupied with questions of charity and public utility? |
| 50968 | Are there not, in these considerations alone, more than sufficient reasons for us not to allow ourselves to be taken unawares? |
| 50968 | But why recall so many pitiful and melancholy scenes and thus arouse such painful emotions? |
| 50968 | Can not men, in like manner, meet to solve a problem as important as that of caring for the victims of war? |
| 50968 | If the terrible instruments of destruction now possessed by the nations seem to shorten wars, will not, on the other hand, the battles be more deadly? |
| 50968 | What are you going to do?" |
| 50968 | What, indeed, in spite of their good will, could a handful of persons do in such urgent need? |
| 50968 | Where is the irresistible allurement? |
| 50968 | Who goes there? |
| 50968 | Who goes there? |
| 50968 | Why relate, with complaisance, these lamentable details and dwell upon these distressing pictures? |
| 52250 | After a few minutes he came up to me and said,"I think you are Miss L.?" |
| 52250 | But very soon he came to my room and said,"Well, Sister, would you like to go to England to- morrow?" |
| 52250 | Did you ever hear of such a piece of good luck? |
| 52250 | Did you ever hear of such good luck? |
| 52250 | If they accept it, will you go with it?" |
| 52250 | Some of them looked such boys to go out and rough it at the front, and it is sad to think that they ca n''t all come back-- one wonders how many? |
| 52250 | Then he said,"But what do you want here?" |
| 52250 | Was it not kind of him? |
| 52250 | Was it not kind of him? |
| 52250 | We just gave our names, and were walking away, when he again stopped us, and asked what we wanted at the station? |
| 52250 | When we arrived here I found a wire from her saying that she was passing our station about 8.30 P.M., and would I meet her? |
| 52250 | You know I have always vowed that nothing would induce me to be a matron? |
| 52250 | You know how particular he is about his horses,& c., at home? |
| 52250 | _ Who_ would look very strong after acting for a year as single- handed Night Sister for a hospital of six hundred beds? |
| 52250 | and I said I had been trying to think whether we had met before, and where? |
| 52250 | are you one of them?" |
| 52250 | direct to say that as I could not get an exchange, might I be allowed to resign? |
| 43898 | ''And pray who are you?'' 43898 ''Do you know that the second bastion is no longer replying?'' |
| 43898 | And if he had n''t enough now for a good breakfast, I should like to know who ever had one? |
| 43898 | But if I give it to you myself you will take it, wo n''t you? |
| 43898 | But what kind of way is this to do business? |
| 43898 | Can nothing be done for them? |
| 43898 | Could bad men be bad in the presence of an angel? 43898 Is it broken?" |
| 43898 | Then will you give them to me? |
| 43898 | What is it? |
| 43898 | What is the matter, Roger? |
| 43898 | What shall I do first? |
| 43898 | Where is your dog? |
| 43898 | Who is Miss Nightingale? |
| 43898 | Why will you not take it? |
| 43898 | Would you like an apple? |
| 43898 | A woman in petticoats, a"Lady- in- Chief,"coming to inquire into their deeds and their methods? |
| 43898 | Am I never going on with the story? |
| 43898 | And what did she do when she finally came to realize this? |
| 43898 | Are there none of the daughters of England, at this extreme hour of need, ready for such a work of mercy? |
| 43898 | Are you sure his leg is broken, Roger?" |
| 43898 | But on opening the bag, what do you think was there? |
| 43898 | But where were they? |
| 43898 | Did anyone else follow the example of the surgeon of the 39th? |
| 43898 | Did she give up, and say,"My work on earth is done?" |
| 43898 | Did you ever think how hard governesses have to work? |
| 43898 | Do you know it? |
| 43898 | Do you remember the little girl sitting by the wounded dog? |
| 43898 | Do you remember? |
| 43898 | Do you think everyone was glad to see her and her nurses? |
| 43898 | Do you wonder that she was called"The Angel of the Crimea?" |
| 43898 | Does this seem to you a small thing? |
| 43898 | Every hour of the day was full of useful, kindly work, of happy, healthy play; should she be content with this? |
| 43898 | Everything"all right"? |
| 43898 | From the Queen to the cottager, all were asking:"What shall we do for her?" |
| 43898 | General, it was you, was it, I brought in? |
| 43898 | Had they not said repeatedly that everything was all right? |
| 43898 | He went to it, opened it, and what do you think he found in it? |
| 43898 | How did this happen? |
| 43898 | How was the miracle accomplished? |
| 43898 | How was the miracle accomplished? |
| 43898 | If a red- hot sword were run into your back you would not like it? |
| 43898 | Is she not paler than usual to- day? |
| 43898 | Is this too dreadful to read about? |
| 43898 | Must we fall so far below the French in self- sacrifice and devotedness, in a work which Christ so signally blesses as done unto Himself? |
| 43898 | No help needed? |
| 43898 | On went the kettle, and soon it was boiling merrily; but where were the cloths for the compresses? |
| 43898 | One of Miss Nightingale''s assistants writes:"How can I ever describe my first day in the hospital at Scutari? |
| 43898 | Pay? |
| 43898 | Shall I try to show you Florence Nightingale at seventeen? |
| 43898 | She thought that with care and nursing the arm might be saved; would they kindly delay the operation at least for a few days? |
| 43898 | Should she go on like her friends, in the quiet pleasant ways of country life? |
| 43898 | The soldiers supplied with everything they needed? |
| 43898 | There was no money? |
| 43898 | True? |
| 43898 | Was it not so? |
| 43898 | Was there a man dismayed? |
| 43898 | Well, one of them was not very well, and another was probably out riding, and a third---- Would he please call them together at once? |
| 43898 | What could a woman know about such matters? |
| 43898 | What did not England owe to her, the heroic woman who had offered her life, and had all but lost it, for the soldiers of her country? |
| 43898 | What did they dance? |
| 43898 | What experience had she had of"service rules"? |
| 43898 | What one woman had the strength, the power, the wisdom, the tenderness, to meet and overcome the terrible conditions? |
| 43898 | What should England do to show her gratitude? |
| 43898 | What should she do with her life? |
| 43898 | What was the meaning of this? |
| 43898 | What would become of them all? |
| 43898 | What? |
| 43898 | When can their glory fade? |
| 43898 | When, after many hours, he recovered his senses, I believe after trepanning, his first words were to ask after his comrade:''Is he alive?'' |
| 43898 | Where is he?" |
| 43898 | Where were the doctors? |
| 43898 | Where were they to go? |
| 43898 | Where were they? |
| 43898 | Who made up the board? |
| 43898 | Would he please open the warehouse and give her the stores? |
| 43898 | Would she, he asked, go out to Scutari, taking with her a band of nurses who would be under her orders, and take charge of the hospital nursing? |
| 43898 | Would they kindly sign the order? |
| 43898 | Yes, the women of England must rise up and go to that far, desolate land to tend and nurse the sick and wounded and dying; but who should lead them? |
| 40057 | ''Paid by the world, what dost thou owe Me?'' 40057 And pray,"said Mrs. Roberts,"who are you?" |
| 40057 | But how will they_ pairt_ with her,he said,"what''ll they do without her? |
| 40057 | Can you find soldiers''orphans for me to educate,wrote one,"because I do n''t like leaving my sisters?" |
| 40057 | Did I tell you,wrote Miss Nightingale to Madame Mohl( May 7, 1861),"what prompted my little chapter on_ Minding Baby_? |
| 40057 | Has Heaven bestowed everlasting souls on men, and sent them upon earth for no better purpose than to marry and be given in marriage? 40057 Have you,"she was asked by the Royal Commission of 1857,"devoted attention to the organization of civil and military hospitals?" |
| 40057 | Here is a dispute which is Hebrew to me; would you look it over with Sutherland? |
| 40057 | I am getting up the examinations; does anything occur to you? |
| 40057 | I beg you to supply me, and that immediately--with what? |
| 40057 | Is there anything higher,she asked,"in thinking of one''s own salvation than in thinking of one''s own dinner? |
| 40057 | Oh, no,he replied;"Madame Mohl is ill.""Then does Paris mean Madame Mohl?" |
| 40057 | One of the Lady Nurses was his theological instructor, and asked him where he would go when he died if he were a good boy? 40057 Ought not one''s externals,"she wrote in her diary( July 2, 1849),"to be as nearly as possible an incarnation of what life really is? |
| 40057 | Please, ma''am, have you any black- edged paper? |
| 40057 | Please, what can I give which would keep on his stomach; is there any arrowroot to- day for him? |
| 40057 | Sidney is again in despair for you,wrote Mrs. Herbert;"can you come? |
| 40057 | The difficulty is,wrote Mr. Nightingale to his wife,"where is the county that is habitable for twelve successive months?" |
| 40057 | Why do you do all this,wrote Mr. Herbert( Jan. 16),"with your own hands? |
| 40057 | Would not Mr. Herbert,she wrote( Sept. 11),"go to you for a few days, settle all the points, and then communicate daily by letter? |
| 40057 | You leave her alone,said his mate,"do n''t you see she''s one of Miss Nightingale''s women?" |
| 40057 | [ 366] I also feel myself mistaken all day long in thought, feeling, or doing-- but what help do I find? 40057 ''Do you mean what you say?'' 40057 ''Yes, certainly; why do you ask me?'' 40057 ( 2) What does Mr. Herbert say to the scheme itself? 40057 ( 3) Would you or some one of my Committee write to Lady Stratford to say,This is not a lady but a real Hospital Nurse,"of me? |
| 40057 | ( June 20, 1861):"Is the Architect''s ideal the profile of a revolver pistol? |
| 40057 | 1? |
| 40057 | And are there any stores for the Hospital he would advise us to take out? |
| 40057 | And if it comes by certain laws, why do n''t we find them out? |
| 40057 | And then, with a humorous transition not infrequent in her musings, she asks,"But why ca n''t you get up in the morning? |
| 40057 | And was there ever an age in so much need of heroism? |
| 40057 | And when he said the"Son of Man,"did he not mean the sons of men? |
| 40057 | And who can say how often her presence may have been as"a cup of strength in some great agony"? |
| 40057 | And, again,"How would you like Leicestershire? |
| 40057 | Are sets and cliques and dislikes unknown where men live together? |
| 40057 | As to my calamity itself, it is like the Mariage de Mademoiselle: who could have foreseen it? |
| 40057 | Because the Purveyor took it upon himself to override the requisition of the medical officers? |
| 40057 | But I hear that you still feel interested in such subjects, and therefore may I venture to try and entertain you?" |
| 40057 | But are we not really to do as Christ did? |
| 40057 | But could not a compromise be arranged? |
| 40057 | But shall I tell you what made you write to me? |
| 40057 | But why could not this clearly foreseen want have been supplied? |
| 40057 | But why, it was asked, were there no Presbyterians? |
| 40057 | But would it be seemly for a gentlewoman to do this? |
| 40057 | But would it? |
| 40057 | But, did we study history as much as physical science, would this be so? |
| 40057 | But, it may be asked, were the things which Miss Nightingale procured and issued really wanted? |
| 40057 | By what authority could it be there, except as delegated from the Lady Superintendent in Chief? |
| 40057 | Can it be said that the Battle of the Alma has been an event to take the world by surprise? |
| 40057 | Can such an illness be unaccompanied by suffering? |
| 40057 | Could not the heroine, the''sweet sad enthusiast,''have been set to some such work as this? |
| 40057 | Could she not delay? |
| 40057 | Could you come in to- morrow between 2 and 4, and bring your list of the causes of death after operations? |
| 40057 | Could you give them a lesson? |
| 40057 | Did a purveyor want some special authority from the military to facilitate his task? |
| 40057 | Did a surgeon want some point represented with special urgency to the authorities at home? |
| 40057 | Do you think me one of Byron''s young ladies? |
| 40057 | Does he think it will be objected to by the authorities? |
| 40057 | Econ.?) |
| 40057 | For women she has-- what? |
| 40057 | Four days later:"Can Miss Nightingale give me the names of some Governors for our new General Hospitals?" |
| 40057 | Had I"lost"the Report, what would the health I should have saved have"profited"me? |
| 40057 | Has M. Mohl told you? |
| 40057 | Has not the expedition to the Crimea been the talk of the last four months? |
| 40057 | Have you heard Batta on the violoncello at Paris? |
| 40057 | He and his wife returned from the Continent with their infant daughters in 1821, and the question became urgent, Where to live? |
| 40057 | Her habit of late rising grew upon her; for what had she to wake for? |
| 40057 | Honorary members abound, but where are the working ones? |
| 40057 | I enclose a letter from E. Do you think it any use to apply to Miss Burdett Coutts? |
| 40057 | I indulge the hope that you will permit me hereafter to continue an acquaintance( may I say friendship?) |
| 40057 | I relied on a Secretary of State, where is he? |
| 40057 | II In what precise respect, it may be asked, did Florence Nightingale"found"modern nursing? |
| 40057 | If not, why does she grumble at troubles which she can not remedy by grumbling?" |
| 40057 | If we are asked, Is such or such a disease a reparative process? |
| 40057 | If you were inclined to undertake this great work, would Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale give their consent? |
| 40057 | If, when the plough goes over the soul, there were always the hand of the Sower there to scatter the seed after it, who would regret? |
| 40057 | Is all that china, linen, glass necessary to make man a Progressive animal? |
| 40057 | Is he at Paris now? |
| 40057 | Is it not the same with moral evil, the laws of which are just as_ calculable_?" |
| 40057 | Is it to be buried in that most undisturbed grave of wise thought and useful information, a blue book? |
| 40057 | Is not this the reason why these cases_ are_ exceptional? |
| 40057 | Is this for us or against us?" |
| 40057 | Is this the way to manage the finances of a great nation? |
| 40057 | Jesus Christ prayed on the Cross not for life or safety, but only for the light of His countenance: Why hast Thou forsaken me? |
| 40057 | MY DEAREST FRIENT-- Do you see where I am? |
| 40057 | May they not have been her fads? |
| 40057 | Mrs. Herbert sent to Miss Nightingale the current riddle:"Why is Gladstone like a lobster?" |
| 40057 | My other belongings, where are they? |
| 40057 | My question simply is, Would you listen to the request to go and superintend the whole thing? |
| 40057 | Nightingale?" |
| 40057 | Now in what one respect could I have done other than I have done? |
| 40057 | Now, why should not the_ Commissariat purvey_ the Hospital with food? |
| 40057 | Now, will you undertake to look after them? |
| 40057 | On the immediate question, To publish or not to publish? |
| 40057 | One can almost hear the honest Colonel''s guffaw as he wonders whether"she will wear a wig or a helmet?" |
| 40057 | Or do you think me an Ascetic? |
| 40057 | Or ought not, in these times, all expenditure to be reproductive? |
| 40057 | Or rather, is it any exercise at all? |
| 40057 | Other contributions were quickly forthcoming, and on October 14 a letter was published asking:"Why have we no Sisters of Charity? |
| 40057 | PART II THE CRIMEAN WAR( 1854- 1856) Who is the happy Warrior? |
| 40057 | Poetry? |
| 40057 | Shall I come to you at 5 o''c., or would you come here?" |
| 40057 | Shall I come to you between 3 and 5? |
| 40057 | Shall I say one odd and perhaps rather impertinent thing? |
| 40057 | Shall we then not love the spirit of all that is loveable, which_ all_ material presence bespeaks to us?... |
| 40057 | She applied only one kind of test to a nurse: Was she a good woman, and did she know her business? |
| 40057 | She gave a sketch of Miss Nightingale''s career, and then continued:"Is it not like St. Elizabeth of Hungary? |
| 40057 | She was of Ibsen''s persuasion:-- What is Life? |
| 40057 | Since we came home in September, how long do you think we have been alone? |
| 40057 | Some one said once, He that would save his life shall lose it; and what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? |
| 40057 | That the sufferings of Christ''s life were intense, who doubts? |
| 40057 | The man said to me afterwards,''Sa feelin''o''Is Royal Ighness, was n''t it, m''m?'' |
| 40057 | The questions are propounded, whether biography should describe a person''s life or his character? |
| 40057 | The scheme is excellent, but what are the results?" |
| 40057 | Then, again, was she"Protestant"or"Catholic"? |
| 40057 | There is a letter from Lady Verney to Clarkey which describes how some one asked Mr. Nightingale,"Are you going to Paris?" |
| 40057 | There was company coming to Embley, and could Florence have the heart to leave her mother? |
| 40057 | This is only an anecdote( I hate anecdotes, do n''t you?). |
| 40057 | To this letter she replied as follows:--(_ Miss Nightingale to Dr. Sutherland._) And what shall I say in answer to your letter? |
| 40057 | True, there is in this world much more waiting to be done; but is it the man leading a secular life who will do it? |
| 40057 | V How, if at all, it may be asked, did she adjust her innermost beliefs to the current creeds of the day? |
| 40057 | Was Hampshire eager, she asked, to emulate the evil fame of Scutari? |
| 40057 | Was Miss W---- an unsympathetic governess? |
| 40057 | Was not the great Soyer himself among the escort? |
| 40057 | Was she Unitarian or Trinitarian? |
| 40057 | What can the future hell be other than this? |
| 40057 | What do the cookery books say? |
| 40057 | What gives her such a fullness of life now and makes her find enough in herself? |
| 40057 | What have I done the last three months? |
| 40057 | What is my business in this world and what have I done this last fortnight? |
| 40057 | What is she to do? |
| 40057 | What is the secret of Lady Jocelyn''s sublime placidity? |
| 40057 | What suggestions do the above ideas make to you in Embley drawing- room? |
| 40057 | What then, poor sufferer, dost thou want? |
| 40057 | What was the use of praying to be delivered from"plague and pestilence"so long as the common sewers were still allowed to run into the Thames? |
| 40057 | What would she say to Florence Nightingale? |
| 40057 | What would they think of me did I possess such a discovery and keep it secret?" |
| 40057 | When I had done he said,''That is perfect, whose is that?'' |
| 40057 | When a ship goes down in an"unforeseen"gale,"Do we say,''How could God permit such a dreadful calamity as the loss of all hands on board? |
| 40057 | When, after many hours, he recovered his senses, I believe after trepanning, his first words were to ask after his comrade,''Is he alive?'' |
| 40057 | Whence comes it, why does it suffer, or why is it blighted, but that it is incipient love, and truth, and wisdom, tortured or suppressed? |
| 40057 | Who are the other three?" |
| 40057 | Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? |
| 40057 | Why are the men to die of foul air in August because they are too cold at Christmas? |
| 40057 | Why ca n''t you, who do men''s work, take man''s exercise in some shape?... |
| 40057 | Why could she not smile and be gay, while yet biding her time and not forsaking her ultimate ideals? |
| 40057 | Why could she not, or why did she not, seek it in marriage? |
| 40057 | Why did n''t I write before? |
| 40057 | Why did she reject the second? |
| 40057 | Why do I wish to leave this world? |
| 40057 | Why must Florence go to the Sisters, and Roman Catholic Sisters, too-- abroad? |
| 40057 | Why refused? |
| 40057 | Why should not Miss Nightingale stay on at Malvern altogether? |
| 40057 | Why should she be wearing herself out away from them? |
| 40057 | Why should she not stay at home, and conduct some small institution on her own account? |
| 40057 | Why should the Sacrament or Oath of Marriage be less sacred than any other? |
| 40057 | Why was this? |
| 40057 | Will you let me have a line at the War Office to let me know? |
| 40057 | Will you not come? |
| 40057 | Will you not come? |
| 40057 | Would he give us any advice or letters of recommendation? |
| 40057 | Would there be any use in my applying to the Duke of Newcastle for his authority? |
| 40057 | Would you have one go away and''give utterance to one''s feelings''in a poem to appear( price 2 guineas) in the_ Belle Assemblée_? |
| 40057 | You will say,_ Bless_ that man, why ca n''t he leave me in peace? |
| 40057 | _ Vox populi_? |
| 40057 | and was not hers perhaps a work of supererogation, for could not the official Purveyor have supplied them? |
| 40057 | do I_ learn_ therefrom? |
| 40057 | do my three score years and more give me the repose of a life spent in helping others or even in helping myself?... |
| 40057 | his work or how he did it? |
| 40057 | or what exertion have I made that I could have left unmade?... |
| 40057 | or what would ten years of life have advantaged me, exchanged for the ten weeks this summer? |
| 40057 | that most repulsive, unapproached, unapproachable place of sepulture? |
| 40057 | to invent wants in order to supply employment? |
| 40057 | what is to become of me?" |
| 40057 | where all my many friends on whom I placed my work? |
| 40057 | where is my strength? |
| 40057 | where, my Hospitals? |
| 40057 | with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? |
| 40058 | Am I she who once stood on that Crimean height? 40058 Am I the head of this household?" |
| 40058 | And suppose I do n''t return to eat one at all? |
| 40058 | But are your people better? |
| 40058 | Can you answer a plain question? |
| 40058 | Can you throw light,she was asked( June 21, 1866),"on the position of the medical officers of the_ Guards_? |
| 40058 | Could you send me a paragraph for Lord Hartington''s speech,she was asked,"to show the salient points of what the nation gets for its money? |
| 40058 | Did he walk? |
| 40058 | Did it ever occur to you,he had written( March 1867),"that you might write a short pamphlet or tract for the natives in India and get it translated? |
| 40058 | Do you know,wrote Miss Nightingale to Mrs. Clough( Nov. 7),"that he sometimes felt glad in the society of''Clough''during his last illness? |
| 40058 | Dr. Sutherland is so very etiquettish,she wrote to Captain Galton( June 24, 1867),"that he says, But how are you to have seen these papers? |
| 40058 | Have you got a copy of the Report of the Committee on the Organization of a Medical School? 40058 How can I thank you enough for your never ending kindness to me? |
| 40058 | I have been thinking,he wrote to her from Algiers( Jan. 28),"Will she be glad to hear from me? |
| 40058 | Is a man who buys bullocks the best man to be a banker? 40058 O my Creator, art Thou leading every man of us to perfection? |
| 40058 | Of the last party, all were married within a year; what is the use of sending out any more? |
| 40058 | Oh, are you my dearest Florence? 40058 Shall I royally discard it,"she asked,"or give them a buster?" |
| 40058 | The Son of God goes forth to war, who follows in his train? 40058 The dreaded letter has come,"she wrote to Dr. Sutherland;"what_ am_ I to answer; how to express sympathy with Prussia without alienating France?" |
| 40058 | Then do you think I might write to him? 40058 Was the luncheon good? |
| 40058 | What would Homer have been,she once said,"if he had had such heroes as the Lawrences to sing? |
| 40058 | Where is Florence? |
| 40058 | Which way,she wrote to friends likely to know,"do you think the storm is going?" |
| 40058 | Who are you? 40058 Who is he?" |
| 40058 | Why did you tell me that tremendous_ banger_? 40058 Why do I write to you,"he said,"about all these young men? |
| 40058 | Would Miss Nightingale oblige the Political Under- Secretary by suggesting an answer to Hawes''s points? |
| 40058 | Yes,she would say, leaning forward,"and what about this or that? |
| 40058 | _ Vexilla regis prodeunt_; yes, but of which King? |
| 40058 | are generally accommodated in the barrack without inconvenient overcrowding,and she asks,"What is_ convenient_ overcrowding?" |
| 40058 | ''What does the man mean by talking to me about style when I am thinking only of the sufferings and oppression of 100,000,000 of Ryots?'' |
| 40058 | ( 127)_ Cholera: What we can do?_ By George H. De''Ath, medical officer of health for Buckingham. |
| 40058 | ( 5) Do you mean really to live as a Patient? |
| 40058 | ( 89)"Who is the Savage?" |
| 40058 | ( Did you know the Baron Stockmar whom Sir Robert Peel called one of the most influential persons in Europe? |
| 40058 | ):--(1)_ It is a greater evil to do than to suffer injustice._ If you call this a"paradox,"why do you not call the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah a paradox? |
| 40058 | 309, 456_ Can we educate Education in India?_( 1879), ii. |
| 40058 | A little later, drawing a bow at a venture, Mr. Jowett wondered whether she was engaged about Indian sanitary matters? |
| 40058 | Algiers, indeed, she wrote tauntingly,"why not Astley''s?" |
| 40058 | Am I such a fool, I ask myself, as to do what she says I have done?" |
| 40058 | And Mrs. Cox wrote( July 15):"How can I ever thank you for the loving reception you gave me? |
| 40058 | And Woolwich, I suppose, is not on fire, or with the enemy at the gates?" |
| 40058 | And again:"What makes the difference between man and woman? |
| 40058 | And all for what? |
| 40058 | And during all those years, my great wish has been: would it be possible to ask Mr. Mill for his help and influence? |
| 40058 | And how can a woman be a Superintendent unless she has learnt to superintend herself? |
| 40058 | And how did she do all this? |
| 40058 | And how should it be done? |
| 40058 | And might I just ask one small question: whether you consider man has a little soul? |
| 40058 | And what was the end? |
| 40058 | And whatever am I to do?" |
| 40058 | And who am I that I should not choose to bear what my Master chooses to bear? |
| 40058 | And why should your Introductions be a sort of apology for recognizing that Socrates speaks the highest truth and no paradox? |
| 40058 | Another, comparing the proposals with what might exist in the future, asks, Does the Bill approximate to the ideal? |
| 40058 | Are not your sermons always a sort of apology for talking to them of God? |
| 40058 | Are there more of them, we may conceive him as saying, who have attained to the kingdom of heaven in their souls? |
| 40058 | Are these things now recognized at Head Quarters? |
| 40058 | Are they to have salt pork and beef? |
| 40058 | Because why? |
| 40058 | Blanchecotte is publishing her_ Impressions de Femme_--what is that? |
| 40058 | But could they ever be prevented until the Public Health Service was placed on a proper footing? |
| 40058 | But how? |
| 40058 | But if I am thinking and feeling and praying for you so much, how must the_ One_ Above feel for you? |
| 40058 | But it takes some time to make such an inquiry, or what would it be worth? |
| 40058 | But then Atalanta is not a sound incarnation of any''social or economic principle''--is she? |
| 40058 | But what was to be done? |
| 40058 | But what would you think of my opinion if I volunteered it about men whom I know only by name? |
| 40058 | But when is that year to come? |
| 40058 | But why should not he see you? |
| 40058 | But will you ride round first alone just as you are now at once and see whether what I have said is true?" |
| 40058 | But, Mr. Fraser, is life long enough for this? |
| 40058 | But, after all, how much does a minister know at first- hand of the business of a Department new to him? |
| 40058 | But, when we are ill, how can we be like God? |
| 40058 | Can we acquire this? |
| 40058 | Can you guess who wrote those words? |
| 40058 | Could not the existing disabilities as to property and influence of women be swept away by the legislature as it stands at present? |
| 40058 | Could they pay it? |
| 40058 | Could you have believed he was so much in earnest? |
| 40058 | Did Dr. Sutherland advise her to join a new"Central Philanthropic Agency"? |
| 40058 | Did I quote to you ever an expression which Neander used to me of Blanco White:_ einer Christ mehr in Unbewusstseyn als in Bewusstseyn_? |
| 40058 | Did he eat?" |
| 40058 | Did she succeed or fail herein? |
| 40058 | Did the War Office shrink from taking initiative in a matter which also concerned the India Office? |
| 40058 | Did you ever hear of Jack? |
| 40058 | Do men publish their_ Impressions d''Homme_? |
| 40058 | Do you know Lord Clinton, and does he know anything about it? |
| 40058 | Do you know that he was elected a scholar of Balliol with A. H. Clough? |
| 40058 | Do you know that there are thousands of girls about the ages of 18 to 23 named after you? |
| 40058 | Do you not think that woman may have been you in some former state of existence?" |
| 40058 | Do you remember the great London theatre which was burnt down at a Christmas pantomime? |
| 40058 | Do you suppose that if we were to offer £ 150 we should get a good article at once? |
| 40058 | Do you think I should have succeeded in doing anything if I had kicked and resisted and resented? |
| 40058 | Do you think it would be possible to write a mystical book which would also be the essence of Common Sense?" |
| 40058 | Do you think that he would be so good as to come and see me?" |
| 40058 | Do you think you are improving? |
| 40058 | Does Gen. Peel come to the War Office? |
| 40058 | Does it? |
| 40058 | Does this view of the matter seem a little transcendental? |
| 40058 | Every important letter is similarly sent to him with a note saying,"What am I to answer?" |
| 40058 | For what is Mysticism? |
| 40058 | Forgive me, dear Miss Z., do you think that you have the true_ love_ of the_ best_ in nursing? |
| 40058 | Have guarded statements, whether about God or any particular moral or truth, ever produced enthusiasm of religion or in morality? |
| 40058 | Have the little_ Lives of Gordon_ reached your men yet? |
| 40058 | He replied by quoting Homer:"[ Greek: amoton memauia], raging insatiably or without limit"-- adding wickedly"Whom did this represent?" |
| 40058 | He was lying in the way he liked-- silent, with Mr. Lewis Campbell sitting beside him-- when suddenly he opened his eyes and said,''Oh, is it you? |
| 40058 | Her amended report was to be circulated amongst the Army in India, but would it be read? |
| 40058 | Her sister was uniformly of the same opinion:"What_ can_ you know about such things, my dear?" |
| 40058 | How can I thank you properly for all your kindness and sympathy-- never failing-- when you had so many other things to occupy your mind? |
| 40058 | How can any undervalue business- habits? |
| 40058 | How can the owner and the master be the limit? |
| 40058 | How can you remember what you have never heard?... |
| 40058 | I am athirst to know_ your_ mind about these things.... Have you seen Stanley''s_ How I found Livingstone_? |
| 40058 | I am not blaming the past( who would blame you who devote your life to the good of others?). |
| 40058 | I can not bear to say: Compare him with the soldier in peace in barracks; for you will say, Then would you always have war? |
| 40058 | II The question had become instant thereupon, What was she to do next? |
| 40058 | If so, will he annihilate our Civil Sanitary element? |
| 40058 | If you answer( anonymously, as I hope, if at all), may I beg you to answer with facts only and without a trace of feeling?" |
| 40058 | In the meantime, if it is necessary to check outlay, should not the check be exercised on things that can stand over for a few years? |
| 40058 | In these circumstances might not some portion of the_ existing_ taxation( the village"cesses") be appropriated to sanitation as a first charge? |
| 40058 | Is Mr. Lowe to come in to the India Office? |
| 40058 | Is Sutherland to go all the same to Malta and Gibraltar this autumn? |
| 40058 | Is any one of us a_ stagnant woman_?" |
| 40058 | Is it even common sense? |
| 40058 | Is it not merely a hard word for"The Kingdom of Heaven is within"? |
| 40058 | Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? |
| 40058 | Is it not the highest of truths? |
| 40058 | Is it not wonderful these men do not see this? |
| 40058 | Is it our Master''s command? |
| 40058 | Is it possible that, if woman suffrage is agitated as a means of removing these evils, the effect may be to prolong their existence? |
| 40058 | Is man only a constant repetition of himself? |
| 40058 | Is not the next thing for you to take no step till you know the results of this letter to him-- the next action he will take? |
| 40058 | Is not the thing of first importance to lay a statement of the whole case before your President? |
| 40058 | Is not this a thing to thank God about? |
| 40058 | Is that motive vain of being made perfect through suffering?" |
| 40058 | Is there any Dialogue, not even excepting the_ Phaedo_ and_ Crito_, where he is so much in earnest? |
| 40058 | Is there anything which you could do, or would wish to do, other than you are doing? |
| 40058 | It was always,"Is it right?" |
| 40058 | May I talk to you as I would to one of our undergraduates? |
| 40058 | May there not be some middle course whereby the men may be killed by neither?" |
| 40058 | May we ask for your advice and suggestions?" |
| 40058 | Miss Nightingale wrote Essays accordingly on"What is the Evidence that there is a Perfect God?" |
| 40058 | Most important: How the troops for Kumassi are to be supplied with water, day and night, fit to drink? |
| 40058 | Nay, would it not be breaking faith with him if it were not done? |
| 40058 | Nightingale?" |
| 40058 | No? |
| 40058 | Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?... |
| 40058 | Now that she had"gone out of office,"was it not her duty to come into the open with her pen? |
| 40058 | Oh, daughters of God, are there so few to answer?" |
| 40058 | One man compares what is proposed with the existing state of things, and asks himself, Is there any decided improvement? |
| 40058 | One of her nursing friends paused in the talk to ask,"But am I not tiring you?" |
| 40058 | Or if some difficulty were propounded,"I wonder if I could help you at all? |
| 40058 | Or is this only a metaphysical idea for which there is no evidence? |
| 40058 | Or would it be necessary to provide others? |
| 40058 | Or, again, what is the effect of town life on offspring, in number and in health? |
| 40058 | Or,"Are you careful to take regular meals? |
| 40058 | People talked, he said, of"preventable diseases"; but"if preventable, why not prevented?" |
| 40058 | Perhaps Miss Nightingale would consider? |
| 40058 | Pray, if you speak of him, remember-- had it not been for him, where would our two Army Sanitary enquiries have been? |
| 40058 | Shall I tell you why I say this? |
| 40058 | Shall we be found wanting? |
| 40058 | She had provided means for bringing her horses to water, but who was to make them drink? |
| 40058 | Should he accept it, at risk of diverting some of his attention from these other reforms? |
| 40058 | Should she write to them? |
| 40058 | Spirit ration only as medicine? |
| 40058 | The War Office actually have_ no_ copy, and the Army Medical Department only a proof not signed and supposed to have been altered?" |
| 40058 | The case was sent to Dr. Sutherland, with a pressing appeal,"What_ shall_ I do? |
| 40058 | The last column inquired whether the householder was"Deaf- and- dumb, blind, imbecile, or lunatic?" |
| 40058 | The question was, How much did the Bill do? |
| 40058 | The subordinate officials were piling up what they were pleased to call"reasons"to the contrary, were they? |
| 40058 | The test,_ e.g._ even of a good doctor or of an acquaintance is, to which camp does he belong? |
| 40058 | Then about their shoes, stockings, and boots? |
| 40058 | Then, again, what boy has not heard in Chapel or in school- song a moral drawn from how things will look"forty years on"? |
| 40058 | There were difficulties in the way, were there? |
| 40058 | These great moral truths are( are they not? |
| 40058 | Those which are shown by her Papers to be hers are:"What is to be done with Netley?" |
| 40058 | VII Was Miss Nightingale''s life happy or unhappy? |
| 40058 | Voltaire said, did he not? |
| 40058 | Was a Sister returning to work in the North after a holiday in London? |
| 40058 | Was it to prevent my worrying you?" |
| 40058 | Was not the cultivator at the mercy of the usurers? |
| 40058 | Was the Minister hanging back? |
| 40058 | Was the oriflamme, which was now beginning to wave above the nursing sisterhood,"of heavenly fire, or of terrestrial tissue?" |
| 40058 | Were not the Zemindars rapacious? |
| 40058 | Were the ryots willing to pay a water- rate? |
| 40058 | What are the contributions of the several classes( as to social position and residence) to the population of the next generation? |
| 40058 | What are the laws therein concerned? |
| 40058 | What are the practical remedies for extortionate usury in India, and principally in the Bombay Deccan? |
| 40058 | What are they? |
| 40058 | What can be done for the health of the home without the woman of the home? |
| 40058 | What comes of them? |
| 40058 | What did Captain Galton advise? |
| 40058 | What had been the result of twenty years of compulsory education? |
| 40058 | What if Scientific Agriculture could be taught at Oxford?" |
| 40058 | What proportion of children forget all that they learnt at school? |
| 40058 | What result has the school- teaching on the life and conduct of those who do not forget it? |
| 40058 | What should I have been without her? |
| 40058 | What should be suggested? |
| 40058 | What signifies what becomes of me? |
| 40058 | What was I to my Master''s work? |
| 40058 | What will our Religion be in 1999?" |
| 40058 | What_ are_ the''higher motives''? |
| 40058 | What_ does_ it matter whether Voysey is defended or not, and whether Lord Derby has a memorial or not? |
| 40058 | What_ is_ to be done about that bust?" |
| 40058 | When she invited a nursing friend to her house, the formula was"Will you come and spend Saturday to Monday in bed with me?" |
| 40058 | When we have got to the top of the mountain, are we much nearer the stars or not?" |
| 40058 | Where shall I find God? |
| 40058 | Where will you find so perfect a man? |
| 40058 | Who are the"ministering angels"? |
| 40058 | Who can be surprised that we worshipped our Chief? |
| 40058 | Who has been so blest as you? |
| 40058 | Who is the King of Glory? |
| 40058 | Who should approach Lord Stanley on the details? |
| 40058 | Who was to be protected? |
| 40058 | Who was to pay for irrigation? |
| 40058 | Who were the heroes then? |
| 40058 | Why call these higher truths"paradoxes"? |
| 40058 | Why did she not try and explain? |
| 40058 | Why do we have Hospitals in order to cure, and Workhouse Infirmaries in order_ not_ to cure? |
| 40058 | Why should he not return to India in an unofficial character? |
| 40058 | Why should not some of it be used for education in the science of"Health at Home"? |
| 40058 | Why, she wanted to know, did not the Society advertise itself more? |
| 40058 | Why? |
| 40058 | Will Gen. Peel imperil the Army Sanitary Commission? |
| 40058 | Will you cast a look sometimes on my old friends, Miss Knight and Mrs.[ T. H.] Green, and my two young friends, F. and J.? |
| 40058 | Will you kindly give your opinion on the best kind of building?" |
| 40058 | Will you see them for me? |
| 40058 | Will you try to hope and be at peace; and just ask of God time to complete your work? |
| 40058 | Would I leave in three days''time for service in the Soudan? |
| 40058 | Would it be necessary to get the Returns for each Corps separately? |
| 40058 | Would it not be better to have a separate Treasurer for the Army to receive all moneys and issue them to all departments? |
| 40058 | Would it not be important to get the ages-- age and time of service at Death or Invaliding? |
| 40058 | Would the Treasury object to the cost? |
| 40058 | Would they, or would they not, accept her service? |
| 40058 | Would you like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, or any of their family, to join you?" |
| 40058 | Would you tell M. Mohl this, if you are writing, about the Queen of Holland''s proposed visit to me? |
| 40058 | Yes? |
| 40058 | You have been sitting up too late? |
| 40058 | [ 232] Do you remember that it is 30 years to- morrow since Sidney Herbert died?" |
| 40058 | and equal responsibilities be given, as they ought to be, to both men and women? |
| 40058 | and have you thought of doing so and so?" |
| 40058 | and was what it did, good or bad? |
| 40058 | and what would many have been without her? |
| 40058 | be better than any other, filled up for each station with the Diseases annually for a period say of 10 years? |
| 40058 | crush all those struggling young peoples, Sclav and Greek, back under the hideous massacres and oppression and corruption of the Turk? |
| 40058 | how can you certify the Hospital? |
| 40058 | if you precipitately resigned before he had had time even to consider the statement? |
| 40058 | is this the way to''human progress''? |
| 40058 | on"What is the Character of God?" |
| 40058 | or Will she swear? |
| 40058 | or you will ask him? |
| 40058 | or"What does all this come to?" |
| 40058 | she once asked, in the daughter''s absence;"is she still in her hospital? |
| 40058 | unable to control ourselves, therefore unable to control others? |
| 40058 | what would they say if_ we_ were to talk about''Gentlemen Doctors''?). |