... 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
| Arminianism - 1849 - 700 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...in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full of genius as it is of humanity." With Howard commences "the history of prison science." Up to... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 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 distresses of all men in all countries. His plan was original, and it was as full of genius as it was of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a... | |
| Arts - 1823 - 346 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...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." Such is the character of Howard, and it vibrates the finest chords of human feeling. Our nation is... | |
| James Baldwin Brown - Philanthropists - 1823 - 702 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...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full... | |
| James Baldwin Brown - Philanthropists - 1823 - 700 pages
...depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity. Already... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 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...and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was ft voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt... | |
| Enoch Pond - Missions - 1824 - 282 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the abodes of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of chanty ; and the benefits of his labors continue... | |
| Englishman - 1824 - 420 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...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." John Howard was born at Hackney, in 1726. His father, who was a London tradesman, dying when his son... | |
| Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - Genealogy - 1824 - 370 pages
...infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." With regard to the political feelings of the people, it is very natural for the old aristocratical... | |
| 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... | |
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