 | Christopher Charles Booth - 2005 - 204 pages
...concourse of people. As Edmund Burke had so cogently put it, in a much quoted phrase, he was ever ready "to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into...hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to remember the forgotten, and to visit the forsaken."163 Nature, Cause, and Cure of the Rabies Canina... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 pages
...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...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... | |
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I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate... 
