| Richard Brookes - 1839 - 834 strani
...contains near 40,000 volumes, and numerous manuscripts. ANO had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly...that we were strangers ; and in the whole time of our stav we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered... | |
| 1852 - 1236 strani
...that by the interposition of some inrisible friend, lodgings had been proTided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly...that we were strangers ; and in the whole time of our star, we •were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered... | |
| University magazine - 1852 - 790 strani
...that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings bad been proTided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were stran^eri ; and in the whole time of our stay, we were gratified bv every mode of kind. ness, and entertained... | |
| James Boswell - 1891 - 566 strani
...that by the interposition of some invisible friend lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers.' Works, ix. 3. a man conscious of the truth, and feeling his own strength1. Treating your adversary... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1893 - 418 strani
...fathers. The Doctor left St. Andrews ' filled with mournful images and ineffectual wishes.' He had been ' gratified by every mode of kindness and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.' He did not know that a young student was to make a poem ridiculing the ' good dinner,' and proposing,... | |
| 1894 - 508 strani
...Lang could not omit to give the details of Dr. Johnson's visit to St. Andrews in 1773, where he was " gratified by every mode of kindness and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality." Dr. Chalmers gives occasion for numerous interesting pages. The author only mentions the noted names... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1903 - 234 strani
...that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly...entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality. ' The Cathedral, of which the foundations may be still traced, and a small part of the wall is standing,... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 strani
...Doctor's particular attention, was the city and university of St. Andrews ; where our Travellers " were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality." He gives an ample account of this once flourishing archiepiscopal city ; pathetically laments its decay... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 strani
...that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly...we rose to perambulate a city, which only history shews to have once flourished, and surveyed the ruins of ancient magnificence, of which even the ruins... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 strani
...the whiggish notions which prevail at Cambridge, he was gratified, during the whole time of his stay, by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality. | In the month of July, this year, the Provost and senior fellows of Trinity College, * The writer of this note... | |
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