... for John Bunyan. Florence Nightingale did not reorganize the hospitals of England from a top-flight, lushly decorated health management office, she managed to do it while bed-ridden herself. Pasteur was semi-paralyzed, but still attacked others' diseases. American historian, Francis Parkman, suffered so terribly that he could work no more than five minutes at a time. Yet he managed to turn out twenty classic volumes of history. These men and women broke their trial. Others let it break them." (6) Pain is ...
... word — one word?" Mrs. Dowson dabbed her eyes once more and then put on her gray coat. Henry was waiting with the blue Lincoln. They drove through the pylons of Auburn Cemetery. They passed many graves and Mrs. Dowson knew all the names — Longfellow, Francis Parkman, Edwin Booth, Winslow Homer. On Orchid Path, Henry stopped the car at a small mausoleum. The brass door opened easily to the key and disclosed a small space with a marble angel and a Latin phrase from Saint Paul. The chauffeur took yesterday ...
3. Put Through the Fire
Illustration
Tim Hansel
... from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi-paralyzed and under the constant menace of apoplexy, Pasteur was tireless in his attack on disease. During the greater part of his life, American historian Francis Parkman suffered so acutely that he could not work for more than five minutes as a time. His eyesight was so wretched that he could scrawl only a few gigantic words on a manuscript, yet he contrived to write twenty magnificent volumes of ...
... ?” Mrs. Dowson dabbed her eyes once more and then put on her gray coat. Henry was waiting with the blue Lincoln. They drove through the pylons of Auburn Cemetery. They passed many graves and Mrs. Dowson knew all the names — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Parkman, Edwin Booth, Winslow Homer. On Orchid Path Henry stopped the car at a small mausoleum. The brass door opened easily to the key and disclosed a small space with a marble angel and a Latin phrase from Saint Paul. The chauffeur took yesterday ...
