Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of 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 art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:... Letters to Young Ladies - Page 204by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1837 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. John Farrar - 1833 - 298 pages
...curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals or to collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals...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,... | |
| John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to planeo 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 attcud tu the maimed,... | |
| Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...arts ; not to collect or collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plungeinto the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimension of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,... | |
| 1834 - 546 pages
...fprm a scale of the curiosity of modern art;— not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into...hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; lo take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals...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,... | |
| Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals...to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take tiie gauge and dimension of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths culars, without I heir being much pleased or alarmed....Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that lake the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 788 pages
...the means of escape; who staid behind not to watch his treasure, not to count his gold, but •• to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken," and I will add, as 1 believe... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:— but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ' to survey the mansions of sorrow and P2 pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten,... | |
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