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But he came to the Chelsea Hospital and talked to the chaplain there and came to see me as a visitor and said, you must follow your own convictions.
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Carpue knew of the murder by Legg since both the perp and the victim were pensioners at Chelsea Hospital, where Carpue practiced.
A request for information | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Palace, and Chelsea Hospital examples of the use of brickwork in important buildings near London at later dates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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From the Gardens he visits Chelsea Hospital, where his _keen discriminating powers_ having been sharpened by the demand for a shilling -- the chief object of which demand is to protect the pensioners from perpetual intrusion -- he bursts forth in a sublime magnifico
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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A local name for Chelsea Hospital, a home for old and disabled soldiers.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter
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The moment HINDENBURG chucks up the sponge off goes William to Chelsea Hospital, there to spend the autumn of his days pitching the yarn and displaying his honourable scars gained in many a bloody battle in the mule lines.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various
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Chelsea Hospital, which, like that of Greenwich, was founded, I believe, by Charles II., (whose bronze statue, in the guise of an old Roman, stands in the centre of the quadrangle,) and appropriated as a home for aged and infirm soldiers of the British army.
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And then, a little further on, he makes the following profound reflection, which no doubt appears to the _American mind_ peculiarly appropriate to Chelsea Hospital: "Cringing to the great, obsequious to the high, the dwarfed souls of Englishmen have no wide extending sympathy for the humble, no soothing pity for the lowly,"
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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Chelsea Hospital allows too little of that wholesome care and regulation of their own occupations and interests which might assuage the sting of life to those naturally uncomfortable individuals by giving them something external to think about.
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And does he remember a little spot of garden-ground, walled in by dingy houses, that lies upon the right bank of the river near to Chelsea Hospital?
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