This Boot was a lone house of public entertainment, situated in the fields at the back of the
Foundling Hospital; a very solitary spot at that period, and quite deserted after dark.
So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling--you have heard of the
Foundling Hospital in London?
My brother went to church at the
Foundling Hospital in the morning, still in ignorance of what had happened on the previous night.
"Perhaps," continued Villefort, "he had put it in the
foundling hospital."
Du Bousquier was depicted as a species of celibate Pere Gigogne, a monster, who for the last fifteen years had kept the
Foundling Hospital supplied.
There are fascinating glimpses along the way into the talismanic origin of pompoms, the fabric tokens left by mothers with babies at the London
Foundling Hospital and the thousand stitch belts given to soldiers in Japan.
Based at the site of The
Foundling Hospital, in London, Coram has helped vulnerable children since it gained the Royal Charter in 1739.
Based at the site of The
Foundling Hospital in London, Coram has helped vulnerable children since it gained the Royal Charter in 1739.
The
Foundling Hospital was established in 1739 by the Thomas Coram, a philanthropist.
Kate spoke of her joy during a visit to the Foundling Museum, which is dedicated to the history of the UK's first children's charity and public art gallery the
Foundling Hospital, in central London.
Hobbes calling it "celerity of imagining" made it sound like a condition to which one ought to aspire, but the New
Foundling Hospital for Wit dubbed it "profaneness, indecency, immorality, scurrility, mimickry, buffoonery; abuse of all good men, and especially of the clergy" (15).