| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness...of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...has exhibited a fine instance of this figure, in his eulogiura of the philanthropic Howard. " He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness...of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity... | |
| 1834 - 546 pages
...remarking, that his labours and writings have done much to open the hearts and eyes of mankind. He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness...of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of ihe remains of ancient grandeur, nor to fprm a scale of the curiosity... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the statcliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 524 pages
...remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a pcaleof the curiosity... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...remarking, that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has ule ; it carries its own caution along with it. Because...too great a length in buildings destroys the purp make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity... | |
| Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 448 pages
...stateliuess of temples ; not to make accurate measurements ol'the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of... | |
| John Gorton - Biography - 1835 - 822 pages
...stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals... | |
| Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 482 pages
..." The labours and writings of Howard have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness...palaces, or the stateliness of temples — not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur ; nor to form a scale of the curiosity... | |
| Francis Mahony - French poetry - 1836 - 696 pages
...their " songs." Impressed with this notion, to use the words of the immortal Edmund Burke, " he has visited all Europe ; not to survey the sumptuousness...of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurement of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities... | |
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