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are useful a

deed, desirable to have any servile mimicry of the usages of other
lands and creeds. There is nothing so barren as imitation, for all
true excellence must have an originality. We may therefore re-
joice that the system of Miss Nightingale is a new one, and re-
quires in its votaries no unnecessary promises, and only such an
Ymount and duration of service as they may feel disposed to yield.
et the same spirit which prompts the Sisters of Charity in

imilar works and a sin
little scope in England t

when opportunity offers, urge them to
far life. Till of late there has been l
any philanthropy of a higher kind
money. Individuals made isolated effo,
to raise the fallen, to help those strt
laboured in obscurity and with indiffe.
less honoured by the charitable world
great societies who vicariously benefittc
medium of an office, a committee, a sec
ing in May. Now there are signs of a
—t devotion, a more seated convicti,
abour, and, above all, a freedom
arld's criticism or ridicule. Thu
nurses ready to join Miss Night
; that the example they
ul noble one the world wil
ho is still toiling in the Ea

sonal 1;
the we

unpaid
feel ful
be a h
of the 1
her sue
with ti
examin
think t]

agh a
lady v

cation
,hat sh
nded

-Battle of Cressy 1346. In thu
Dst only three knights and one es
number of common soldiers.
;ollins. in his life of the Black PI
baronage of England, that not or
hat day, though most of them a
attic, as appears from the same
according to one author, the En;
use of cannons, which were first
is great fight was followed by some
nit results. Neither the triumpl
that of Agincourt, many years
3nglish dominion in France. For
tgland, the equally wonderful sumo
pt away, in a few months, all that]
notion of this insane and unjustifiable r-
ot* a century. Edward the Black Prince
of forty-six years. He was buried in Ca
mad his monument, is still very perfect. C
en canopy, carved and painted. On the ur
ted a repreentatien of God the Father sustr
on the Cross ; at the angles are the syr
lists. The heads of the two principal
-d. The military accoutrements of th
-"ended by an iron rod above the tc

A ug 21.
the EN
inconsid

telteve
tig to r

rent sue(

3d their kin
retary. and

,
Lon of the Ile
from the mi
at there will

ingale's wort
will have be
11 not doubt.
at have been
—;r7ht w

conspicuous, that the pi
ans of carrying out her vi
)f their feasibility ; but froi__
e and those who advocate the inst
ced not shrink."

ews, evc
rn such

rvations will meet universal cony
at the bare intimation of the open'
call forth a free flow of liberality.

(L Jr plut

.st 26-
glish I
'erable

says Arthur C
history of the I
nobility fell tl
king to the b
may add that,
of Cr

occasi
by no
Poicte
establ
Franc

in pro
tories
the ag
drat ;

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the So
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ingly c
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relief a
truly v
nature
stitute

of Aug
safety-

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Thi

germane
.rs, nor
sh the E
and En

ans swe

Ire suer
arious :

, which,
The shit
)od, enti
at the if

ronderful
so finn a

for meta
Prin

-Discovc
ust will

pur
of lives

lying away of

the suffering,
ise ; but they

Ind wer

airman of the
through the
a yearly meet-

orence:a more

cessity of per-
serable fear of
be plenty of

: of mercy we
ore them will

so great, and
ell intrust her
thout a close

,ruination we

we have re

the fund in

iorable fight

with a very

is evident,'

" from the
the English

apanied their

oyed or

mediate, but
Cressy and
d to

, suffice
ely bot'
of the I

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bury C.
the tom

before
of the

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rib is
hich
him
four
have

they are, perhaps, the most anctem,
and, as might be expected, convey informatiok
but for such evidence, can be gained but by info
field, fastened to the column at the head of the tomb
;irely covered with leather, wrought in such a man.
lours-de-lis and lions stand forth with a boldness oi
h, that when we consider the material employed, i!
1 ; at the same time possessing, even to this day, e
and tough that it must hare beets an excellent sub.

sideration of thi
Bristol, the Chi
Wearmouth, to

examine ar

28—Cor

Dramatists

tised for so

his thought

nee Albert born 1819.
Ty of the Safety Lam
ever be rendered men-

of the in

,oses yet ma
Lave been pi

subject by
'man of a

re-da
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Vieille

p, which,

-died 1684
vas born

produced I
comoositioi

3st benef

an applic
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nd promo

uthward,

p by Davy 1815

Dn reachi:

orable by the discovery of

icial applications of science
rich hundreds, perhaps the
Davy was led to the cc
Dr Gray, Bishop
1 in 1813, at Bishc

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t Rouen

ration to

of prevent

and was
ng Lond

and Cinna

Aland, he visi
?plied with sp(

rivalled in
reward dur

he proceeded

dventt

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; the gre
in 160 i
befel hi
1 his na
and NI

entitle

at of the Fren
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fter he had pra

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him with t

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1 th 4
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which t

for the stag
it in 1636 1
,at of the CI

journeys, t
deposited i
at Rome. 1

rn IC
trave
wr
cly
iful gi
tough

a conta

followed by
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this day u

Corn
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as w•ithd.

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to resit

tored tc

n a presl
imself t

except

,vherever

as prepa
lad it sec

her from the

carry her to

a coffin, and
~ For four

it the en
ie tomb

oble :rne stor

uneral °ratio

f considerable

'count of her extra,
)yal George, 1782.

he Loss of the

found nec
108 gun 9

ary that this
►ich had late

ill-fated vessel, a line
ly arrived at Spithea

It having been
of-battle ship of

people a

'ormed the

reeling erro

intercour

mankind

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