 Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 3241856Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 lehte
...curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depth of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan was original, and it was as full of genius as it was of humanity.... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 lehte
...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries." John Howard was born at Hackney, in 1726. His father, who was a London tradesman,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 lehte
...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to... | |
 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - 1824 - 370 lehte
...antient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts : but, to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 48 lehte
...made not only to co-operate with the successful and assist the prosperous, but to cheer the remote,' to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken.' Before the rising of our republic in the world, the faculties of men have had but one weary pilgrimage... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1824 - 282 lehte
...to gratify a vain curiosity ; but, in the eloquent language of Mr. Burke, " to dive into the depth of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the abodes of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ;... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 lehte
...curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depth ot dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals,...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries." BISHOP BURNET. HE is an entertaining, though a prolix historian. He was... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 278 lehte
...curiosity of modern arts ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into tin, depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage »nd dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to reforsaken, and compare and collate the... | |
 | First flowers - 1825 - 306 lehte
...of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the inlection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gage and dimensions... | |
 | 1825 - 864 lehte
...most migratory men from their spheres, but, as the just and oftquoted eulogy of Burke defines it, " to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, to remember the forgotten, and attend to the neglected;" but... | |
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