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" 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... "
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 455
edited by - 1835
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 1

Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 394 pages
...art ; not to collect medals or manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge in the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forsaken . and to compare...
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English Grammar

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 328 pages
...measurements of the remain* of ancient grandeur, nor to form a seal? of the curiosity of modern arts ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: — but...dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to surrey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimeniiont of misery, depression, and...
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Death on the Pale Horse

John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - Death - 1827 - 240 pages
...curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts ; :but to dive into the depth of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur ; not to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals,...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...accurate measurements of the remaiii> of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities 01 modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts...dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into tht. infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow, and of pain, and to take the guage...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) - 1828 - 584 pages
...remains of ancient grandeur, not to form a scale of the curiosity of modern arts, nor to collect meda/s or collate manuscripts; — but to dive into the depths...dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to snrvey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and...
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The African Repository, Volume 3

African Americans - 1828 - 398 pages
...made doubly true the picture so admirably designed by Mr. Burke, of the labours of the great Howard: "to dive into the depths of " dungeons; to 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;...
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Historical Religious Events: Illustrated by Forty-six Copper Plate ...

John Warner Barber - Church history - 1828 - 210 pages
...ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale. of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, nor to collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take gauge and dimensions...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur ; not to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals,...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate MSS. ; but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten...
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