A View of the Life, Travels, and Philanthropic Labours of the Late John Howard...D. Huntington, 1814 - 180 páginas |
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... benevolence to so wide a compass . It seems to have been the capital object of his ambition , that the poor in his village should be the most orderly in their manners , the neat- est in their persons and habitations , and pos- sessed of ...
... benevolence to so wide a compass . It seems to have been the capital object of his ambition , that the poor in his village should be the most orderly in their manners , the neat- est in their persons and habitations , and pos- sessed of ...
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... of instruction , and partaking of no- thing that can dignify the human character , it is no wonder that a benevolent person of the higher ranks in society should consider them as creatures of an inferior species , only to be 20.
... of instruction , and partaking of no- thing that can dignify the human character , it is no wonder that a benevolent person of the higher ranks in society should consider them as creatures of an inferior species , only to be 20.
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... benevolent views ) over the simple natives . But is this state of pupilage to be perpe- tual ? and , in a land of liberty and equal laws , is the great body of people always to exist in a condition of actual subjection to , and de ...
... benevolent views ) over the simple natives . But is this state of pupilage to be perpe- tual ? and , in a land of liberty and equal laws , is the great body of people always to exist in a condition of actual subjection to , and de ...
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... benevolence , but his private charities were largely diffused , and remarkably well direct- ed . It was , indeed , only to his particular confidents and coadjutors that many of these were ever known ; but they render him the most ample ...
... benevolence , but his private charities were largely diffused , and remarkably well direct- ed . It was , indeed , only to his particular confidents and coadjutors that many of these were ever known ; but they render him the most ample ...
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... benevolent desires without his accustomed benefits to his neighbours and dependents . Another early feature of that character which Mr. Howard afterwards so conspicu- ously displayed , was a determined resistance of injustice and ...
... benevolent desires without his accustomed benefits to his neighbours and dependents . Another early feature of that character which Mr. Howard afterwards so conspicu- ously displayed , was a determined resistance of injustice and ...
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Página 180 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 153 - ... compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius 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 its effects fully realized in his own.
Página 153 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge 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 distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 176 - I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever, to mark where I am laid : but lay me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
Página 40 - Although the work was very bulky, consisting of 520 quarto pages, with four large plates, yet " so zealous was he," says Dr Aikin, " to diffuse information, and so determined to obviate any idea that he meant to repay his expenses by the profitable trade of bookmaking, that he insisted on fixing the price of the volume so low, that, had every copy been sold, he would still have presented the public with all the plates and great part of the printing.
Página 152 - 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 measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Página 153 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Página 42 - ... me, which perusal was repeated sheet by sheet, as they were printed. As new facts and observations were continually suggesting themselves to his mind, he put the matter of them upon paper as they occurred, and then requested me to clothe them in such expressions as I thought proper. On these occasions, such was his diffidence^ that I found it difficult to make him acquiesce in his own language, when, as frequently happened, it was unexceptionable.
Página 175 - I, have but a short time to live: my mode of life has rendered it impossible that I should get rid of this fever. If I had lived as you do, eating heartily of animal food, and drinking wine, I might, perhaps, by altering my diet, be able to subdue it.
Página 174 - Mordvinofs family to carry water, and thus proceeded to visit his patient. Upon his arrival he found the lady dying ; this, added to the fatigue of the journey, affected him so much, that it brought on a fever. His clothes, at the same time, had been wet through ; but he attributed his fever entirely to another cause. Having administered something to his patient to excite perspiration, as soon as the symptoms of it appeared, he put his...