... 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,... The Cheap magazine [ed. by G. Miller.] Vol - Page 209edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
| Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men, in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It is a voyage of difcovery, a circumnavigation of charity; and already the benefit of his labour is felt... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...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...neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and coly late the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full of genius... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglecled, t® visit the forsaken, and to compare and colr late the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is lull of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of... | |
| James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...mansions of sorrow and pain — to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression and comfort — to remember the forgotten — to attend to the neglected...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. On his return, he published, in 1777, "The state of the Prisons in England and Wales, with prelimiminary... | |
| John Coakley Lettsom - Charities - 1801 - 386 pages
...to furvey the maniions of forrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimenfions of mifery, depreflion, 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. His plan... | |
| Thomas Eddy - Correctional institutions - 1801 - 120 pages
...to furvey the manfions of forrow and pain; to take the guage " and dimtulions of mifery, deprefiion, and contempt; to remember the * " forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to vifit the forfaken, and to com" pare and collate the diftreffes of all men in all countries. His plan... | |
| Ernst Brandes - Women - 1802 - 458 pages
...hospital«; 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...of all men in all Countries. His plan is original and it is a» full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a fien bebarf, абег тф^оИеге bítm... | |
| Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...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 and collate the dis' tresses of all men, in all countries.' We might compare the state of society in those countries... | |
| John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...survey the " mansions of sorrow and pain; to take " the gauge and dimensions of misery, de" pressiou, and contempt; to remember the " forgotten; to attend to the neglected; " to vi$it the forsaken; and to compare " and collate the distresses of all men in " all countries*." No... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...forfaken, and to compare and collate the diftrefles of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full 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 lefs in... | |
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