... 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 Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 114by Reuben Percy - 1826Full view - About this book
| James Hardie - 1802 - 486 pages
...misery, depression and comfort — to remember the forgotten — to attend to the neglected — to visit the forsaken, and to compare and 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,... | |
| John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...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 selfish view mixes itself with the practice of virtue. Neither worldly wealth... | |
| Ernst Brandes - 1802 - 458 pages
...of Misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses 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... | |
| 1803 - 430 pages
...tha .guage and dimensions of misery, to rememb'er the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity — it v/as... | |
| B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 pages
...misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten ; to attend to the neglected ; to visit the forsaken ; and to compare and collate the distresses of all men, in all countries. His plan was original, and as full of genius as of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery,... | |
| John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in iiil countries! His plan is original, and it is as full of genins as it is of humanity. It was a... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses 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... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses 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... | |
| 1808 - 546 pages
...misery, depression, and contempt— to remember the forgotten— to attend to the neglected — to visit the forsaken— and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.' He, even he, is denied in England, the common rights of a subject : he is incapable... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses 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... | |
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