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 of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:... Cyclopædia of moral and religious anecdotes - Page 332by Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 863 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...— 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 pain — to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and comfort — to remember the forgotten — to... | |
| Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take tha .guage and dimensions of misery, to rememb'er the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts :— but 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... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but 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... | |
| John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...modern art: not to collect menials, or collate maouicripts, but 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... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
...modern art ; not to collect ' medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths 'of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to ' survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, and to take the ' gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; rr, r* ' «-* -• SECTION... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; t» take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten,... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts ; — but 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... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...modern art ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : but to dive into the depth of dungeons ; to 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 ; to remember the forgotten, to attend... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 322 pages
...modern art ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and jpain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten,... | |
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