...the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains ol ancient grandenr, or form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not...or collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depths ol dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospi tals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain...

...Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to take accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur,...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the...

...concourse of people. As Edmund Burke had so cogently put it, in a much quoted phrase, he was ever ready "to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into...hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to remember the forgotten, and to visit the forsaken."163 Nature, Cause, and Cure of the Rabies Canina...