 | 1821 - 488 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the maniions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original : it is as full... | |
 | 1849 - 700 pages
...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;...in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full of genius as it is of humanity." With Howard commences "the history of prison science." Up to... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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...the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan was original, and it was as full of genius as it was of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a... | |
 | 1823 - 346 pages
...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...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." Such is the character of Howard, and it vibrates the finest chords of human feeling. Our nation is... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 700 pages
...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,...attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is full... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1824 - 282 pages
...plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the abodes of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of chanty ; and the benefits of his labors continue... | |
 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - 1824 - 370 pages
...into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." With regard to the political feelings of the people, it is very natural for the old aristocratical... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...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...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." John Howard was born at Hackney, in 1726. His father, who was a London tradesman, dying when his son... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 48 pages
...made not only to co-operate with the successful and assist the prosperous, but to cheer the remote,' to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken.' Before the rising of our republic in the world, the faculties of men have had but one weary pilgrimage... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 pages
...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...collate the distresses of all men in all countries." BISHOP BURNET. HE is an entertaining, though a prolix historian. He was a man of inflexible principles... | |
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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,... 
