 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Anecdotes - 1796 - 296 pages
...form a fcale of the curioiities of modern art, not to collect medals, or to collate manufcripts: — but to dive into the depth of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hofpitals, to furvty the manfions of forrow and pain ; to take the gauge and diminuons of mifery, depreffion,... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...to form a fcale of the curiofity of modern arts ; not to colleft medals, or to collate manufcripts; but to dive into the depth of dungeons,. to plunge into the infeftion of hofpitals ; to furvey themanfions of forrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimenfions... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...nor to form a scale of the- curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depth of dungeons, to plunge into the infe6\ion of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions... | |
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...form a scale of the curiosities of modern art — not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depth of dungeons — to plunge...hospitals — to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain — to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and comfort — to remember the forgotten... | |
 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...to ' plunge into the infection »(' hospi' tais -, to survey the mansions otsor1 row and pain ; and to take the ' gauge and dimensions of misery, ' depression, and contempt ; to re4 member the forgotten ; to attend to ' the neglected ; to visit the forsaken ; ' and to compare... | |
 | Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...curiosity of 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...curiosity of 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 ; t» take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten,... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...curiosity of 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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...curiosity of 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 the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten,... | |
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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... 
