 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
...nor the stateliness of temples — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; " to plunge (says Burke) into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and despair; to remember the forgotten; to attend to the neglected; and to compare and collate the distressed... | |
 | 1823 - 346 Seiten
...a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, nor to collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." Such is the character of Howard, and it vibrates the finest chords of human feeling. Our nation is... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 700 Seiten
...form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 Seiten
...to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." John Howard was born at Hackney, in 1726. His father, who was a London tradesman, dying when his son... | |
 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - 1824 - 370 Seiten
...of dungeons ; to plunge into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." With regard to the political feelings of the people, it is very natural for the old aristocratical... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 Seiten
...to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 48 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." BISHOP BURNET. HE is an entertaining, though a prolix historian. He was a man of inflexible principles... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 278 Seiten
...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... | |
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... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,... 
