 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...remarking, that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of all mankind. He has pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, and the massy...walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...mere idle compliment. It proceeds from the sincerest and deepest feelings of our hearts." 8. " Howard visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stalcliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient •<indeur; not... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 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 scale of the curiosity... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...honour, and the most ample reward, I can possibly receive."* In the words of Edmund Burke, " 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...remarking, that his labors, and writings, have done much to open the eyes and the 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 curiosities... | |
 | Edward Parsons - Providence and government of God - 1879 - 320 pages
...interview terminated. JOHN HOWARD AND THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Edmund Burke once observed of Howard, " that he 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... | |
 | Frederick Sherlock - Temperance - 1879 - 272 pages
...single-minded philanthropist, John Howard, of whom Edmund Burke nobly declared in Parliament:—" 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 curiosities... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1246 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 to collate 'manuscripts ;— hut to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey... | |
 | J. P. Munro-Fraser - History - 1880 - 682 pages
...constant increase of crime in all the Christian nations. Burke says of this great philanthropist: " He 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... | |
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... name this gentleman without 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... 
