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... mind by their dress , their language , and constant attendance at public worship . " This was the case in many towns . Béguinages were established to receive the women who had already adopted the dress , practices , and name of Beguinæ ...
... mind by their dress , their language , and constant attendance at public worship . " This was the case in many towns . Béguinages were established to receive the women who had already adopted the dress , practices , and name of Beguinæ ...
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... minds better than the priests themselves . " They had a great reputation for " chastity , modesty , prudence , and piety , which produced , among many other advantages to themselves , this chief one , that they were called in to advise ...
... minds better than the priests themselves . " They had a great reputation for " chastity , modesty , prudence , and piety , which produced , among many other advantages to themselves , this chief one , that they were called in to advise ...
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... mind . The Prison Society at Düsseldorf had long felt the import- ance of providing some kind of asylum for the more hopeful female prisoners on their discharge , where they could remain for a time under feminine superintendence , and ...
... mind . The Prison Society at Düsseldorf had long felt the import- ance of providing some kind of asylum for the more hopeful female prisoners on their discharge , where they could remain for a time under feminine superintendence , and ...
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... mind . We tried to quiet and comfort her . In the midst of this struggle of body and mind , on the 17th September , 1833 , came Minna , the first inmate of the asylum , from the House of Correction at Werden . We lodged her , for want ...
... mind . We tried to quiet and comfort her . In the midst of this struggle of body and mind , on the 17th September , 1833 , came Minna , the first inmate of the asylum , from the House of Correction at Werden . We lodged her , for want ...
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... mind and of yet greater courage . " But could our little Kaiserswerth be the right place for a Protestant deaconess - house , for the training of Protestant nurses for the sick — a place with a population of scarcely 1800 souls , of ...
... mind and of yet greater courage . " But could our little Kaiserswerth be the right place for a Protestant deaconess - house , for the training of Protestant nurses for the sick — a place with a population of scarcely 1800 souls , of ...
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