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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
William John Macquorn Rankine
Born: July 5, 1820
Died: December 24, 1872 (aged 52)
Bio: William John Macquorn Rankine was in the first place a Scottish mechanical engineer and on second place civil engineer, physicist and mathematician.
Known for:
- A manual of applied mechanics (1858)
- Miscellaneous Scientific Papers
- Songs and Fables