 ... necessity there is reason to complain. It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its...  Works - Page 194by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pages
...appropriated to Divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty ftudents; AS but but more than one muft occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpackms, but elegant and luminous. The doctor, by whom it was fliewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...appropriated to divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty ftudents ; but more than one muft occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpacious, but elegant and luminous. The doctor, by whom it was fhewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 pages
...appropriated to divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty ftudents ; but more than one muft occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpacious, but elegant and luminous. The doftor, by whom it was {hewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 258 pages
...appropriated to divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty fiudenti; but more than one. muft: occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpacir ous, but elegant anu luminous. The doctoc, by whom- it was fhewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...appropriated to divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty ftudents ; but more than one muft occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpacious, but elegant and luminous. The doctor, by whom it was fhewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...appropriated to divinity. It is faid to be capable of containing fifty ftudents; but more than one muft occupy a chamber. The library, which is of late erection, is not very fpacious, but elegant and luminous. The doctor, by whom it was fhewn, hoped to irritate or fubdue my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and, while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities...The library, which is of late erection, is not very spa. cious, but elegant and luminous. St. Andrew's seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...prosperity to its literary societies; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, sutlers its universities to moulder into dust. Of the two...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...VOL. VIII. P parparticipation of its prosperity to its literary societies-; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities to moulder into dusti Of the two colleges yet standing, one is by the institution of its founder appropriated to divinity.... | |
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