| Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...palaces, or the statelinefts of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of...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... | |
| Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - 1824 - 370 pages
...his life, in the pursuits of humanity ; and who, in the expressive language of the immortal Burke, " visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...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... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but...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... | |
| Enoch Pond - 1824 - 282 pages
...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 ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 278 pages
...curiosity of modern arts ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into tin, depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection...the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage »nd dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to reforsaken, and compare and collate the distresses... | |
| First flowers - 1825 - 306 pages
...make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate...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... | |
| Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1825 - 864 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1826 - 208 pages
...measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts, nor to collect medals or collate manuscripts ; — but...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... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...of ancient grandeur, or to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect me. dais, or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depths...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend the... | |
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