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GAI-LEHY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 3...
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LV.—THE WORKHOUSE VISXTIJSTa SOCIETY, AN...
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Four Female Professors Of The University...
her splendid mansion to a private hospital , and converting her own bedroom into the general kitchen . " ( 10 ) but number
of The her patients produce b of y no her means jewels dimini was soon shed , exhausted so , overcomin at , " the g the door her natural of the
Milanese repugnance Patricians , she forced , encountering herself to ask not for a alms few refusals , and many discourteous rebuffsOften when she called for this purpose on
. the Princess of Estethen resident in Milan , the courtiers of the ante-chamber refused , to admit herthose gilded plebeians , judging
genius human , magnanimity worth by outward of soul apparel , or even ; , were nobility incapable of birth of recognising , Trivulzi under the
poor Milanese garments patrician worn , founded by Agnesi a hosp . ital At this for afflicted juncture females , , and , a
inhabited A and gnesi intelli was the gent chosen hosp cares ital directress of , who Agnesi . found Never and no in less small her than exemp solace four lary hundred in the virtue assiduous patients found
, courage to support their sad and suffering existence . Agnesi died on the 4 th of August , 1799 devoted , at the to age the miti of eighty-on of e
the years sufferings , nearly fifty of the of most which afflicted had been class of society . Agnesi of gation her was life the .
most beautiful woman of her time , and the purity equalled the greatness of her talents .
A . M .
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Lv.—The Workhouse Visxtijsta Society, An...
LV . —THE WORKHOUSE _VISXTIJSTa SOCIETY , AND THE DUTY OF WORKHOUSE VISITATION .
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- «» - What is there to be said upon Workhouses which has not ere this been said over and over againby wise and tender hearted men and
women ? Why is it , that the , old grievances of humanity fall so dull upon the listeners ear , that in spheres apart from the contagious
activity of philanthropists , people go about their daily calling omni giving - * present no more advertisements heed to reports of Rowland of distress ' s Kal than ydor they or Bass would 's pale to ale the ?
Again;—what is a p 7 _iilanthropist 9 and how is it that we have coined such a long Greek word to express that nature which having
ears heareth , and having eyes can see ? Perhaps if all people , instead of readingcould really see that which is most deplorable in .
the form of man , , they would make a mighty effort to cure that which they now consider with carelessnessmerely because it has
never been realised within their minds . For , which intent it has occurred to us that stereoscopic slides of workhouse interiors might
be now distributed with greater efficiency than tracts at a penny or p pamp loyed hlets to trace at a shilling and identif , and y the the same criminal wonderful in the art eye which of the is em law - ; ,
( 10 ) Elogio Storioo di M . G . Agn 6 si , p . 80 . Milano , 1799 .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/21/
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