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The Power of Religion on the Mind: In Retirement, Affliction, and at the ... - Page 303
by Lindley Murray - 1888 - 378 pages
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John Howard

Mrs. John Farrar - 1833 - 298 pages
...proceeded : " I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has...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 of dungeons ; to...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 34

1833 - 1032 pages
...Howard. " 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...Europe ; not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, nor the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 34

1833 - 1056 pages
...Howard. " 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...Europe ; not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, nor the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur,...
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A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2

John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...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 sumpumisni'ss of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...again in jail. 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...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; to plunge...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

1834 - 602 pages
...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...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 ; to plunge...
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The rev. Gervase Smith: a memorial volume. Ed. by A.O. Smith

Alfred Owen Smith - 1882 - 506 pages
...his memory in the bosom of a grateful Country. How forcible and true are the words of Burke. Howard " visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness...remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals or to collate MSS. ; but to dive into the depths...
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The Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1882 - 346 pages
...Great Revival. Of him Edmund Burke said, " He had visited all Europe in a circumnavigation of charity, 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 and to plunge into...
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Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human Kindness

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 pages
...I cannot name this gentleman," he says, "without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has...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 dive into the...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 2

1824 - 642 pages
...without remarking that his labours and writings Lave done much to opeu the eyes and hearts of mankiud. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, nor the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur,...
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