A General Biographical Dictionary, Band 2Whittaker and Company, 1838 |
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Seite 24 - 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, to visit the forsaken and to compare and collate the
Seite 24 - stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modem art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to
Seite 24 - pronounced on Howard by Edmund Burke, in his speech at Bristol, previously to the election, in 1780, must not be omitted : " I cannot," said the orator, " name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe—not to survey the
Seite 20 - October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that his idea of writing the decline and fall of the
Seite 24 - as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country ; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all
Seite 24 - Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, under the hand and seal of William Shakspeare, including the Tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original MSS.
Seite 24 - A soul supreme in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Seite 24 - sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
Seite 24 - this favourite object, she fancied that she saw visions, and heard voices exhorting her to re-establish the throne of France, and expel the English invaders. Having communicated this imaginary inspiration to the governor of Vaucouleurs, he forwarded her to Charles
Seite 24 - Kirwan, from the pulpit, his officiating in this metropolis was considered a peculiar national advantage, and that vestries should be called to consider the most effectual method to secure to the city an instrument, under providence, of so much public benefit." In the same year he was preferred to the