... 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,... Letters to Young Ladies - Page 204by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1837 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Coakley Lettsom - Charities - 1801 - 386 pages
...to furvey the maniions of forrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfions of mifery, depreflion, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
| Ernst Brandes - Women - 1802 - 458 pages
...infections of hospital«; to survey the Mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gage and dimensions of Misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the...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 fien bebarf, абег... | |
| Great Britain - 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
...survey the " mansions of sorrow and pain; to take " the gauge and dimensions of 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... | |
| Christianity - 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,...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 a voyage of discovery,... | |
| B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 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...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, a circumnavigation... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; t» take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...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 voyage of discovery... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the...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 voyage of discovery... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...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 voyage of discovery... | |
| John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the...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 voyage... | |
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