 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the swmptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the- curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depth... | |
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples — not to make accurate measurements of ancient grandeur — nor to form a scale of the...curiosities of modern art — not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depth of dungeons — to plunge into the infection... | |
 | B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 pages
...survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness c«f * Speech at Guildhall, Bristol, 1780, temples; not to make accurate measurements of the...remains of ancient grandeur ; nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depths... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts :— but to dive into the depths... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...mankind. He has visited all Europe— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
...visited all Europe — not to,survey the sumptuousness of pa' laces, or the stateliness of temnles ; not to make accurate ' measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to ' form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect ' medals, or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depths... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...Howard. It " He has visited all Europe,— not to surrey the sumptnousnfss of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient, grandeur, nor to form a stale of the curiosity of modem art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: — but to dive... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...of mankind. He has visited all Europe not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the...remains of ancient grandeur; nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; nor to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : but to dive into the depth... | |
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I cannot 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 sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate... 
