...given what he himself calls a merry narrative.11 1 " The library," says Johnson, good-humouredly, " is not very spacious, but elegant and luminous. The doctor by whom it was shown hoped to Irritate or subdue my English vanity by telling me, that we had no such repository of...

...cardinal's fears of assassination had converted into a fortress. Editor. 2 " The library," says Johnson, " is not very spacious, but elegant and luminous. The doctor by whom it was shown hoped to irritate or subdue my English vanity by telling me, that we had no such repository of...

...increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies, and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities to moulder into dust." 1 Had the writer of this pithy denunciation lived to the present day, I venture to think that even...

...increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies, and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities to moulder into dust"1 Had the writer of this pithy denunciation lived to the present day, I venture to think that...

...increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its Universities...elegant and luminous. 'The doctor, by whom it was shown, hoped to irritate or subdue my English vanity, by telling me, that we had no such repository...

...increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and, while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities...but elegant and luminous. The doctor, by whom it was shown, hoped to irritate or subdue my English vanity, by telling me that we had no such repository...