... 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,... Sermons - Sivu 244tekijä(t) John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Canadian Bar Association - 1927 - 506 sivua
...of dungeons, to plunge into the infections of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to comfort and collate the distresses of all men; it was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of... | |
| 272 sivua
...pain ; to take the age and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember tiir furgotten; to attend to the neglected; to visit the forsaken,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." — BURNE. TO THE FAfcSE ONE. Thou hast a memory, beauteous one ! for in our happy days Thon'st told... | |
| Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 sivua
...popular ignorance, but on individual virtue and knowledge born of experience. Howard's "plan," moreover, "is original; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labor is felt more or less in every country;... | |
| Robert H. Bremner - 260 sivua
..."a circumnavigation of charity" undertaken "to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend...compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries."15 The admiration Howard won in his own day for exchanging a life of comparative comfort... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 sivua
...hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend...it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country:... | |
| Alison Booth - 2004 - 440 sivua
...palaces . . . but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals . . . and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. ... It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity" (83-84). '792' Compare: "Among all... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 sivua
...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...and to compare and collate the distresses of all men hi all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a... | |
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