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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE DA YS OF CHILDHOOD Romantic Journeys from Lea Hurst to Embley Park?George Eliot Associations?First Patient?Love of Animals and Flowers? Early Education. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. Milton. There is a lesson in each flower; A story in each stream and bower; On every herb o'er which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod, To hope and holiness and God. Allan Cunningham. THE childhood of Florence Nightingale, begun, as we have seen, in the sunny land of Italy, was subsequently passed in the beautiful surroundings of her Derbyshire home, and at Embley Park, Hampshire, a fine old Elizabethan mansion, which Mr. Nightingale purchased when Florence was about six years old. The custom was for the family to pass the summer at Lea Hurst, going in the autumn to Embley for the winter and early spring. And what an excitingand delightful time Florence and her sister Parthe had on the occasions of these alternative " flittings " between Derbyshire and Hampshire in the days before railroads had destroyed the romance of travelling! Then the now quiet little town of Cromford, two miles from Lea Hurst, was a busy coaching centre, and the stage coaches also stopped for passengers at the village inn of Whatstand- well, just below Lea Hurst Park. In those times the Derby road was alive with the pleasurable excitements of the prancing of horses, the crack of the coach-driver's whip, the shouts of the postboys, and the sound of the horn?certainly more inspiring and romantic sights and sounds than the present toot-toot of the motor-car, and the billows of dust-clouds which follow in its rear. Sometimes the journey from Lea Hurst was made by coach, but more frequently Mr. and Mrs. Nightin...<

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ISBN: 1458979369