 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...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...neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and coly late the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full of genius... | |
 | James Hardie - 1802 - 486 pages
...mansions of sorrow and pain — to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and comfort — to remember the forgotten — to attend to the neglected...and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. On his return, he published, in 1777, "The state of the Prisons in England and Wales,... | |
 | Ernst Brandes - 1802 - 458 pages
...survey the Mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gage and dimensions of Misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to...and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all Countries. His plan is original and it is a» full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a... | |
 | 1802 - 764 pages
...pain ; and to take the ' gauge and dimensions of misery, ' depression, and contempt ; to re4 member the forgotten ; to attend to ' the neglected ; to...visit the forsaken ; ' and to compare and collate the dis' tresses of all men, in all countries.' We might compare the state of society in those countries... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...misery, de" pressiou, and contempt; to remember the " forgotten; to attend to the neglected; " to vi$it the forsaken; and to compare " and collate the distresses of all men in " all countries*." No selfish view mixes itself with the practice of virtue. Neither worldly wealth... | |
 | 1803 - 430 pages
...hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take tha .guage and dimensions of misery, to rememb'er the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...and to compare and 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 v/as... | |
 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 pages
...survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten ; to attend to...to compare and collate the distresses of all men, in all countries. His plan was original, and as full of genius as of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery,... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to...and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in iiil countries! His plan is original, and it is as full of genins as it is of humanity. It was a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; t» take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to...and to compare and 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to...and to compare and 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... | |
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... 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,... 
