World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . y -?m-). MISS NIGIITOGALE. Instead of commencing the present subject, like the rest, with adefinition of the peculiar characteristic emhodied by her, as one ofour World-Noted Women, it might perchance be better to beginwith an apology for venturing to introduce a living personage ataU in a book discussing character. It has been justly said by acelebrated French writer :— On doit des 6gards aux vivants; onne doit aux morts que la verite. [We owe consideration to theliving; while to the dead, we owe but truth.] Happily,
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . y -?m-). MISS NIGIITOGALE. Instead of commencing the present subject, like the rest, with adefinition of the peculiar characteristic emhodied by her, as one ofour World-Noted Women, it might perchance be better to beginwith an apology for venturing to introduce a living personage ataU in a book discussing character. It has been justly said by acelebrated French writer :— On doit des 6gards aux vivants; onne doit aux morts que la verite. [We owe consideration to theliving; while to the dead, we owe but truth.] Happily, meretruth is the most honom-ing consideration that can be paid to thecharacter of Miss Nightingale. The only inj ustlce that could bedone to her merit, would consist in forbearing to state simply andcandidly the facts of her career, or to pass them over in silence ;for no written praise can add honour to the merit of her, who, asShakespeare says, is— One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,And in the essential vesture of creationDoes bear all excellency. Therefore encomi
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