... 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,... The Bristol memorialist - Page 841823Full view - About this book
| John Gorton - 1835 - 822 pages
...the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, una contempt : to remember the forgotten, to »tteud to the neglected, to visit the forsaken and to compare and collate the diitreue* at all men in all countries. Hie plan is original, and it is as full of genius as it ia of... | |
| Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1836 - 342 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...collate the distresses of all men, in all countries. His plan was original, was full of genius and humanity. Tt was 'a. voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation... | |
| Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 482 pages
...into the infection of hospitals — to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain — to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery : a circumnavigation... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or ke His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt;...collate the distresses 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,... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt;...collate the distresses 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 dis-covery,... | |
| James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...contemplate the dwellings of sorrow and shame — to remember the neST. PACL'B CATHEDRAL. 109 glected — to visit the forsaken, and to compare, and collate the distresses of men of all countries. He was the discoverer of want, in order to relieve it, and the navigator of misery's... | |
| Stephen Davies - 1838 - 260 pages
...depths 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,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries."* At the age of twenty-four, the beloved and all-commanding Swartz preached his first sermon in the Tamul... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1838 - 862 pages
...of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vUlt the forsaken, and to compare, and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His |.l,,n ht original; and it Is as full of genius as it In of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery;... | |
| John Berrien Lindsley - 1874 - 66 pages
...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;...collate the distresses 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,... | |
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