Travels in Europe and the East - a year in England, Scotland, Ireland... (1855) (14590818478)

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Title: Travels in Europe and the East : a year in England, Scotland, Ireland...

Year: 1855 (1850s)

Authors: Prime, Samuel Irenæus, 1812-1885

Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel

Publisher: New York : Harper

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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long ago as 1209 a terrible affaii-occurred here from these disputes: a woman was acci-dentally killed; the people charged her murder to thestudents, and hunsr three of them. Three thousand 130 EUKOPE AND THE EAST. Old broils. Knowing student. stitdents quit Oxford on that account, and the city-humbled itself before the Pope, did penance, and thestudents came back. In the famous quarrels betweenthe Nominalists and Realists sixty-three studentswere killed. But heads are not broken for meta-physics in the battles of our day. As I was going to my hotel I met a student wear-ing, as all of them must in the street, the cap andgown, and I asked him, Can you tell me, sir, thewhole number of students at present in all the col-leges ? His answer was the following: I cawnttell you, Im shaw, faw I dawnt knaw. A gentleman passing at the moment very politelyasked me if he could give me any information, and onmy repeating the question, he told me that the pres-ent number of members is five thousand.

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CHAPTER XIII. FAMOUS PLACES.Blenlieim—Warwick—Stratford-on-Ayon—Kenihvorth—Cliatsworth. That was not a very good Angel at Oxford.They have the strangest names for hotels in En-gland : I thought of making a list of them in Lon-don : the Green Dragon, the Golden Cross, the Ele-phant and Castle, the Four Swans, the Pig and thePot, the Flying Horse, the White Lion, and othersso coarse that I will not write them—the origin ofsuch names being founded in the early ignorance ofthe people, which required a sign to be painted that hewho runs can read: a thing, not a name, and thus atavern would become known even among those whocould not spell a word. At Oxford we were guestsat the Angel, the most aristocratic house in thecity. We found nothing great there but the bill,which was larger than it should have been by onehalf, and the fare inferior, so that I advise my fi-iendsto go to the Mitre, of which I know nothing. Thechances are in its favor. Monday morning we were off for Blenheim.

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