 ... 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,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 311833Full view - About this book
 | Edward Everett - America - 1824 - 48 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Kett - English wit and humor - 1825 - 298 pages
...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...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... | |
 | First flowers - 1825 - 306 pages
...dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend • Fol. 1701. p. 332. to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of men in all countries." 22ND. THE NATAL DAY OF BYRON! — the very PRINCE (it would be pure bathos to... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimenoons of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to the other, "was considerable. The representation of Bristol, from its wealth, commerce, and population,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1826 - 208 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries." — This figure of rhetorick, therefore,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...and compare the distresses of all men, in all countries, and edit the misfortunes of the human race. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius, as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his exertions is... | |
 | Gift books - 1825 - 306 pages
...dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend * Fol. 1701. p. 332. 7* to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of men in all countries.' 22ND. TllH NATAL DAY OF BYRON ! the very PRINCE (it would be pure bathos to... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...of the human race. His plan is original; and it is as ftiH of genius, as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his exertions is felt more or less in every country: I hope he will anticipate his reward by seeing all... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 394 pages
...sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forsaken . and to compare and collate the distresses of all men, under all climes." In the prosecution of this god-like work, Howard made " a voyage of discovery, a... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - Death - 1827 - 240 pages
...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...voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity ; and already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country." And yet he died in... | |
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