| Daniel Dewar - Communion sermons - 1859 - 410 pages
...In illustrating this Divine subject, allusions have sometimes been made to the extraordinary man who visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples, but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to enter the mansions... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...near three thousand again in jail. I cannot namo this gentleman without remarking, that his lahours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts...not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the •tateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor... | |
| John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...tribute to the great Philanthropist : " I cannot name Mr. Howard without remarking that his labours have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind....not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliuess of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor... | |
| Thomas Greenbury - 1860 - 154 pages
...his memory, were difficult. " Howard," said the orator, "was a man who traversed foreign countries, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples — not to make accurate measurement of the remains of ancient grandeur— not to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art... | |
| Francis Mahony - Fraser's magazine - 1860 - 654 pages
...collected from their " songs." Impressed with this notion, to use the words of the immortal Edmund Burke, " he has visited all Europe ; not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliuess of temples ; not to make accurate measurement of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn. iv—BUKKE'S EULOGIUM ON HOWARD. I CANNOT name this gentleman without remarking that his labours...the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,—not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate... | |
| Sunday schools - 1862 - 216 pages
...words which had been used concerning another of kindred spirit. " He had visited foreign countries, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples, nor to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities... | |
| Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...light and hope with him. A man who, in the language of Mr. Burke, " visited all Europe (and the East), not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples, nos to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 pages
...ages the victims of misfortune will be cheered by the name of Howard, who, in the language of Burke, " visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate admeasurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...ensued, and he shortly after breathed his last. " I cannot name this gentleman," says Mr. Burke, " without remarking that his labours and writings have...done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind He visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not... | |
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