 | 1828 - 398 pages
...made doubly true the picture so admirably designed by Mr. Burke, of the labours of the great Howard: "to dive into the depths of " dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the man" sions of sorrow and pain; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, " depression and contempt;... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1828 - 584 pages
...to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts, nor to collect meda/s or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to snrvey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and... | |
 | 1829 - 560 pages
...nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge...countries. His plan is original: it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity. Already the uenefit... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 318 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt;...the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare anil collate the distresses of all men, in all countries." The next figure concerning which we are... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions ot sorrow and pain; to take gauge and dimensions c* misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the...attend to the neglected; to visit the forsaken • and to compare and collate the distresses ot all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate MSS. ; but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - 388 pages
...nor 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...of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 628 pages
...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...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...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...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare ai?d collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is... | |
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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,... 
