 | Joseph Kingsmill - 1854 - 534 pages
...Cherson in Russian Tartary, on the xx"1 of Jan. MDCCXC, A Victim to the perilous and benevolent Attempt To ascertain the Cause of, and find an efficacious Remedy For, the Plague. lie trod an open but unfrequented Path to Immortality In the ardent and unintermittcd Exercise of Christian... | |
 | John Field - 1856 - 332 pages
...CHERSON, IN RUSSIAN TARTARY, ON THE XXIH OF JAN. MDCCXC. A VICTDI TO THE PERILOUS AND BENEVOLENT ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE CAUSE OF, AND FIND AN EFFICACIOUS...EXCITE AN EMULATION OF HIS TRULY GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS. THE END. LONDON : James Truscott & Son, Suffolk-lane, City, and Nelson-square. . - m • -• ; : mm... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...Cherson in Russian Tartary, on the 20th January, 1790, a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt to ascertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy for the plague. He trod an open and unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unintermitted exercise of Christian charity.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 824 pages
...intent of relieving the wretched prisoners. Upon his monument, in St. Paul's, it is wisely said that " he trod an open, but unfrequented, path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitting exercise of public charity." He died at Cherson, in Russia, hi 1790, of an epidemic disease,... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1867 - 294 pages
...monument was erected to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral ; the inscription on which tells us that he trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitting exercise of Christian charity. William Carey, a poor shoemaker in a Northamptonshire village,... | |
 | E M. Cummings - 1869 - 108 pages
...Russian Tartary, on the 20th Janu*ry 1790, a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt toascertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy for, the plague. He trod an open and unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian Charity. May... | |
 | E. M. Cummings - 1869 - 108 pages
...for, the plague. lie trod an open and unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian Charity. May this tribute to his fame excite an emulatien of his truly glorious achievements ! • This was the first monument erected in the Cathedral,... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - History - 1869 - 410 pages
...1790. .The inscription upon his statue in St. Paul's, London, among other impressive records, says, " He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent but unintermitted exercise of Christian charity ; " and it closes with the devout hope, which has been... | |
 | Philanthropists - 1876 - 138 pages
...CHERSON, IN RU8SIAN-TARTARY, ON THE XXTHOFJAN. MDCCXO., A VICTIM TO THE PERILOUS AND BENEVOLENT ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE CAUSE OF, AND FIND AN EFFICACIOUS...EXERCISE OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY. MAY THIS TRIBUTE TO HIS FAMK ; EXC1TE AN EMULATION OF HIS TRULY GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS. Such is the story of John Howard. It... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Great Britain - 1878 - 398 pages
...TRANSEPT : — key. He died at Cherson in the S. of Russia , while on a journey which he had undertaken 'to ascertain the cause of and find an efficacious remedy for the plague'. This monument was the first admitted to St. Paul'i. To the right , above the niche : Colonel Cadogan... | |
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June, 1790, a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt to ascertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy for, the plague. He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity. May... 
