 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 788 pages
...gold, but •• to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken," and I will add, as 1 believe I may with strict propriety, to administer even the rites of sepulture to... | |
 | Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 448 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is origmal, and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Education - 1835 - 220 pages
...into the infection of hospitals, — to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, — to take the guage of misery, depression and contempt, — to remember...collate the distresses of all men in all countries?" Verily, his reward is written in Heaven. Not only must you persevere in good offices, without looking... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of ull men in all countries. His plan was original, and it was as full of genius as it was of humanity.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...to the distinction, was most justly entitled to the name of philanthropist. In the words of Burke, " to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries," were the objects for which he left home, and affluence, and ease, to visit the prisons of Europe during... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Education - 1835 - 226 pages
...survey the mansions of sorrow and pain,—to take the guage of misery, depression and contempt,—to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...collate the distresses of all men in all countries'?" Verily, his reward is written in Heaven. Not only must you persevere in good offices, without looking... | |
 | Samuel James Allen - 1835 - 438 pages
...to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken2.' Even to the cell of the poor lunatic will you re1 See Paradise Lost, book xi. 465 — 495.... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...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;...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. SIB JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men... | |
 | Marshall John and co - 1884 - 266 pages
...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...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. " His plan is original ; and it is... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 pages
...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,...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; it is as full... | |
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... 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 gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,... 
