 ... 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 gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...  Sermons - Page 244by John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1786 - 716 pages
...to furvey the maniions of forruw and pain; to take the gage \\ -Л dimenfions of mifery, depreffion, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the fori'.iki-D, and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...to furvey the manfions of forrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfions of mifery, depreffion, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftrefies of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...forgotten, to attend to toe neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the ditlrefles of all men in all countries. His plan is original...of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of difcovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or left in... | |
 | History - 1781 - 732 pages
...forgotten, to attcnd'to the neglected, to viut the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftreffes of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humani». It was a voyage of dilcovery ; a circumnavigation of charily. Already the benefit of his... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1786 - 680 pages
...to attend to the negle&ed, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the di(lrefle« of ail men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it...of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of difcovery, a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt, more or Icfs,... | |
 | History - 1788 - 734 pages
...; to furvey the manuons of forrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfiona of miicry, depreffion, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vilu the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftreffes of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...to furvey the manfions of forro w and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfions of mifery, depreffion, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit theforfaken, and to compare and collate the diftreffes of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...to furvey the manfions of forrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfions of mifery, depreffion, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftreffes of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Anecdotes - 1796 - 296 pages
...to furvty the manfions of forrow and pain ; to take the gauge and diminuons of mifery, depreffion, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men in all countries." Solitude,... | |
 | Charles M'Cormick - 1798 - 402 pages
...forgotten, to attend to the neglefted, to vifit the forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men in all countries. His plan is original,...of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of difcovcry — a circumnavigation of charity." The beauty of this panegyric is confiderably heightened... | |
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