Word: edinburg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...situation to which there was not some objection, but here every flower is united, and not a thorn to be found. This is the most agreeable passion I ever felt: sixteen, innocence and gaiety make me quite a Sicilian swain. I have given up my criminal intimacy with the Edinburg women; in short, Maria has me without a rival." This would seem like a most satisfactory condition of affairs, but the fickle heart of Boswell could never remain true to anyone. He hears Miss Blair is really in love with him after all, and straightway his heart goes...
...strangely do we color our own vices." he writes in horror, "I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife, yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, stayed in Edinburg, and I very genteelly paid her expenses," This horror of immorality lasted until he had freed himself from the woman. There is no possession on earth so valuable as an india-rubber conscience...
...resolution has been adopted by the Senatus of Edinburg University to celebrate the tercentenary of the foundation of that institution. The celebration will take place at the expiration of the present session upon the 16th, 17th and 18th of April next...
William Chambers, LL. D., the well known London and Edinburg publisher, is dead, aged 83 years...
...principal libraries of the world, in the latest volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the volumes accredited to the principal college libraries are as follows: Cambridge (Eng.) University Library, 200,000, besides a total of 266,500 volumes belonging to the separate college libraries; Trinity College, Dublin. 192,000; Edinburg University, 140,000; Glasgow University, 125,000; University College, London, 100,000; Oxford Bodleian, 400,000, besides a total of 306,000 among the several colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg...