A View of the Life, Travels, and Philanthropic Labours of the Late John Howard...D. Huntington, 1814 - 180 páginas |
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... In Vol . LVII . On the heat of the waters at Bath , containing a table of the heat of the waters of the different baths . * In Vol . LXI . On the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius . This list may serve to give an idea of the 15.
... In Vol . LVII . On the heat of the waters at Bath , containing a table of the heat of the waters of the different baths . * In Vol . LXI . On the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius . This list may serve to give an idea of the 15.
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John Aikin. This list may serve to give an idea of the kind and degree of his philosophical research . Meteorological observations were much to his taste ; and even in his later tours , when he was occupied by very different objects , he ...
John Aikin. This list may serve to give an idea of the kind and degree of his philosophical research . Meteorological observations were much to his taste ; and even in his later tours , when he was occupied by very different objects , he ...
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... gives me the following account of this part of his conduct , at a time when he was deeply engaged in those public exertions which might be sup- posed to interfere with his private and local benefactions . " He still continued to devise ...
... gives me the following account of this part of his conduct , at a time when he was deeply engaged in those public exertions which might be sup- posed to interfere with his private and local benefactions . " He still continued to devise ...
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... give an instance of it which I had from himself . His child one day , wanting something which he was not to have , fell into a fit of crying , which the nurse could not pacify . Mr. Howard took him from her , and laid him quietly in his ...
... give an instance of it which I had from himself . His child one day , wanting something which he was not to have , fell into a fit of crying , which the nurse could not pacify . Mr. Howard took him from her , and laid him quietly in his ...
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... give an account of this work , I shall just observe , that so zealous was Mr. Howard to diffuse information , and so determined to obviate any idea that he meant to repay his expenses by the profitable trade of book making , that ...
... give an account of this work , I shall just observe , that so zealous was Mr. Howard to diffuse information , and so determined to obviate any idea that he meant to repay his expenses by the profitable trade of book making , that ...
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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...