| John Warner Barber - Church history - 1828 - 210 pages
...plunge into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as humanity. It is a voyage of philanthropy — a circumnavigation of charity." Mr. Howard commenced his... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...into the infection of hospitals, — to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, — to take the gauge and dimensions of misery , depression, and contempt,...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 of... | |
| African Americans - 1828 - 398 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the man" sions of sorrow and pain; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, " depression and contempt;...collate the distresses " of all men in all countries." But never, till our own time, could it be said of the philanthropist, without exaggeration, in his... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...tht. infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow, and of pain, and to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...forgotten ; to attend to the neglected ; to visit (he forsaken ; and to compare, and collate, the distresses of all men, in all coun tries." BPRKE'S... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions ot sorrow and pain; to take gauge and dimensions c* misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the...forsaken • and to compare and collate the distresses ot all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as humanity. It is a... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt...neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collati the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original , and it is as full of genius,... | |
| 1829 - 560 pages
...depression, and contempt ; to remember 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 of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity.... | |
| Tracts - 1830 - 370 pages
...like the gospel of Jesus to cheer and console them. It was a blessed thing therefore, that he came 'to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the .forsaken, and to comfort all that mourn.' I would not be understood to say that the poor alone stand in need of these... | |
| 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 State... | |
| Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...plunge into the mfection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt...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... | |
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