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The History of St. Andrews: Ancient and Modern - Page 162
by Charles Jobson Lyon - 1838 - 237 pages
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...folitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation. The unlverfity, within a few years, confifted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two ; the college of St. Leonard being lately diflblved by the fale of its buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...testimony of Dr. Johnson, in his Journey*. 1 ' One of its streets is now lost ; and in those that remain there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation. ... St. Andrews seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and education. . . . The students, however,...
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The Flowers of Modern Travels: Being Elegant, Entertaining and ..., Volume 2

John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1792 - 332 pages
...folitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation. The univerfity, within a few years, confifted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two ; the college of St. Leonard being lately diflblved by the fale of its buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...folitude of inactive indigence arid gloomy depopulation. The univerfity, within a few years, confifted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two ; the college of St Leonard being lately diffolved by the fale of its buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...archiepiscopal pre-eminence, gradually decayed: One of its streets is now lost; and in those that remain, there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence...depopulation. The university, within a few years, consisted ofthree colleges, but is now reduced to two; the college of St Leonard being lately cicssolved by the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...folitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation. , The univerfity, within a few years, confifted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two; the college of St. Leonard being lately diflblved by the fale of its buildings, and the appropriation of its revenues...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...iblitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation. The univerfity, within a few years, confifted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two; the college of Si. Leonard being lately diffolved by the fale of its buildings, and the appropriation of its revenues...
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The Grampians Desolate: A Poem

Alexander Campbell - Scotland - 1804 - 342 pages
...stranger from the south is, at first sight, struck with the dreary aspect of every thing around him. " There is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation," as Johnson elegantly expresses it, that damps the emotions of wonder and admiration the sublimity of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...archiepiscopal pre-eminence, gradually decayed : one of its streets is now lost ; and in those that remain, there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence...colleges, but is now reduced to two ; the college of St Leonard being lately dissolved by the sale of its buildings, and the appropriation of its retenues...
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Delineations of St. Andrews: Being a Particular Account of Every Thing ...

James Grierson - St. Andrews (Scotland) - 1807 - 402 pages
...archiepiscopal pre-eminence, gradually decayed : One of its streets is now lost, and in those E 3 that remain, there is the silence and solitude of inactive indigence and gloomy depopulation." The following lines of Virgil are no less applicable : , " Locus Ardea quondam Dictus avis : et nunc magnum...
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