| Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...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 - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...without remarking that his labors 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 statcliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur nor to... | |
| Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...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... | |
| Maria Theresa Villiers Earle - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...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...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 of dungeons ; to plunge... | |
| James Schouler - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...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... | |
| Stanley Peerman Hutton - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...noble eulogy : " He visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, nor the stateliest of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals, nor to collect manuscripts ; but to dive into the... | |
| William Hills Hutchins - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 86
...a most diligent investigation.' Therefore ' he visited all Europe,' to use Edmund Burke's words, ' not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art; not to collect medals or to collate manuscripts, — but to pick up the... | |
| Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...that Burke paid the glowing tribute to Howard the philanH thropist, which has been so often quoted: "He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...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 of dungeons ;... | |
| George Allardice Riddell Baron Riddell - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...tolerable which omitted a reference to John Howard, the prison reformer (1726-90), of whom Burke remarked : He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, nor to collect medals or collect manuscripts, but to dive in the depths of dungeons, to plunge... | |
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