 | 1811 - 554 страници
...take gauge aud dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten; to attend to the neglected; to visit the forsaken; and to compare...His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as humanity. It is a voyage of philanthropy — a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of... | |
 | William Salter - 1904 - 196 страници
...the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. Edmund Burke. The want and injustice of the present social state are not necessary. Taking men in the... | |
 | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle - 1906 - 412 страници
...the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity.' We were as men who through a fen Of filthy darkness grope : We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or... | |
 | Stanley Peerman Hutton - 1907 - 532 страници
...gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." Howard's great fellow - labourer in the cause of suffering humanity, Thomas Clarkson, came to Bristol... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 страници
...of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." Mrs. Fry ministers like an angel in English prisons; Hannah More dedicates her social gifts to reform... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 страници
...depression and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, to compare and collate the distresses of all men in...voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity." The fourth charge was that Burke had been active in passing what was known as the Savile act, releasing... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1918 - 416 страници
...depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries." His course, is the more remarkable, when we consider that, though a man of delicate constitution and feeble... | |
 | George Allardice Riddell Baron Riddell - 1925 - 328 страници
...the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. ... It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity. The period since 1764 has been marked... | |
 | Charles Frederick Farrar - 1926 - 420 страници
...the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare...of all men in all countries. His plan is original; it is as full of genius as of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery; a circumnavigation of charity."... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 страници
...to the neglected, to visit the forsaken '. His plan had been original, as full of genius as it was of humanity ; ' it was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity '. Burke spoke of the genius of Howard's work ; but what was really most striking in it was its conscientious... | |
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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 gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,... 
