 ... 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
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pages
...he examined minutely those of the continent," to remember (ав Mr. Burke beautifully expresses it) the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." His glorious course was terminated, by fever, at Cherson, in Russia, January 20, 1790. He wrote The... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...mfection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt ; to remember the...neglected ; to visit the forsaken ; and to compare and to collate the distresses of all men and in all countries. His plan is original, and it is as full... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 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...the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare ai?d collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - Social change - 1831 - 388 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 as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gaugo and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original : it is as full of genius as of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...to survey THE MANSIONS of sorrow and pain-, to take THE GAUGE AND DIMENSIONS of misery, dependence, and contempt-, to remember the forgotten, to attend...collate THE DISTRESSES of all men, in all countries. Observe. Put who, whom, or what, before any of the Adjuncts in the foregoing examples, and you will... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 234 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 ths distresses of all men, in all countries." The next figure concerning which... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1032 pages
...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...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 is a voyage of discovery,... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - 1833 - 298 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...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men of all countries. His plan is original, and it is full... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 224 pages
...infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember...visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the dutrusea of all men in all countriea." GENEKAL CAUTIONS. L Avoid the use of threadbare and hackneyed... | |
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