 | John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 460 pages
...survey the " mansions of sorrow and of pain; to take " the gage and dimensions of misery, de" pression, and contempt; to remember the " forgotten, to attend...is of humanity. It " was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavi" gation of charity. Already," adds the British statesman and orator, " already the " benefit... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1816 - 744 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt;...collate the distresses of all men in all countries :'' he, even he is denied in England the common rights of a subject ; he is incapable of legal admission... | |
 | Joshua E. White - 1816 - 382 pages
...sir Sydney Smith was there, but he also departed without seeing the works. Knowing these redimension of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten; to attend to the neglected; and to compare and collate the distressed of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it... | |
 | 1817 - 514 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals— to survey the mansions of sorrow и pain— to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...all men in all countries. His plan is original, and as full of genius as it is of humanity.' Perhaps Mr. Burke did not know that Mr. Howard was a Dissenter,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of men in all countries. — Burke. *20. 1813. WIELAND, GERMAN POET, DIED. 21. SAINT AGNES. Agnes, a young... | |
 | 1818 - 506 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain : to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of men in all countries. — Burke. SAINT VINCENT, JAN. 22. Vincent, a deacon of the church in Spain,... | |
 | 1850 - 938 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gange and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt,...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and cornpara and collate the distresses of all men, in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full... | |
 | 1817 - 404 pages
...sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt ; to rememher 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 ; it is as full... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gunge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt;...and to compare and collate the distresses of all men iu all countries." Happy should we be if the rest of this memorable passage were also true! " He has... | |
 | James Baker - 1819 - 216 pages
...the words of an eloquent writer,^) " ' to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take " the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, " and contempt;...remember the forgotten, to " attend to the neglected, and to visit the forsaken,' " the sentiment becomes virtue, and the reward is " of the highest and... | |
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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,... 
