| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 422 pages
...but in gross) are similu-ly placed. 1. I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. 2. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples;... | |
| Charles Cassal - 1899 - 184 pages
...scrambled through the carriage. 155. ESTIMATES OF HAPPINESS. 156. HOWARD THE PHILANTHROPIST. I cannot name this gentleman without remarking, that his labours...writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of all mankind. He has visited all Europe— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness... | |
| Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - Medicine - 1900 - 468 pages
...the most eloquent of voices of his own time, to words such as none but Edmund Burke could utter : ' He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness...remains of ancient grandeur ; nor to form a scale of curiosity of modern art ; nor to collect medals ; nor to collate manuscripts — but to dive into the... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - Civilization, Modern - 1900 - 718 pages
...were chained down with iron bars and had on iron collars full of spikes. Edmund Burke says of Howard : "He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness...accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur; not to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts;... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...were near three thousand again in jail. I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts...not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the statcliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to... | |
| Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - Prison reformers - 1902 - 262 pages
...of his seventeen years of untiring exertions, in the noble words of Burke's famous panegyric, he " visited all Europe — 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... | |
| Baptists - 1811 - 554 pages
...following •; and well-merited eulojrium : •'I cannot name this gentleman withoal remarking tjb.-it his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts ui' mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to surrey the »umptuousuess ef palaces, nor the statelinew... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1906 - 344 pages
...in desperate fight for their liberties. "He has visited all Europe," said Burke eloquently in 1780, "not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, . . . not to collect medals or to collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the... | |
| Charles Frederick Farrar - Bedford (England) - 1926 - 420 pages
...country. Howard's name forms the theme of one of the " purple patches " of Burke's oratory : " I cannot name this gentleman without remarking, that his labours...writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of all mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness... | |
| 272 pages
...visited all the cities of Europe, nol for the purpose of surveying the sumptuousness ol palaces, for the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains ol ancient grandenr, or form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate... | |
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