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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
coffee-houses , for the benefit of such of the academics as have neglected , or lost , their Latin and Greek . In these useful repositories , grown gentlemen are accommodated with the Cyclopaedia , in the most expeditious and easy manner . —The Magazines afford history , divinity , philosophy , mathematics , geography , astronomy , biography , arts , sciences , and poetry . —The Reviews form the complete critic , without consulting the dry rules of AristotleOuintilianand Bossu ;
, , and enable the student to pass his jjdgment on volumes which he never read , after the most compendious method . —Novels supply the place of experience , and give lectures of intrigue and gallantry . — Occasional poems diffuse the itch of rhyming , and happily teinpt many a young fellow to forsake logic , turn smart , and commence authoreither in the pastorallyricor elegiac way . —Political
, , , pamphlets teach the inexpediency of continental connections ; that for the punishment of French- perfidjv , we should wage perpetual war with that nation ; and that our conquests in America will raise the jealousy of all Europe . As there are here books suited to every taste , so there are liquors adapted to every species of rending . Amorous tales may be perused
over arrack . punch and jellies ; insipid odes , over orgeat and capillaire ; politics , over coffee ; divinity , over port ; and defences of bad generals , and bad ministers , over whipt syllabubs . In a word , in these libraries instruction and pleasure go hand in hand ; and we may pronounce , in a literal sense , that learning remains no longer a diy pursuit . The most ancient and considerable of these is that in
New-College-Lane , fo . mded by the memorable Mi-. Johnson . He was accordingly constituted the first librarian , and upon his retiring to . the Isle of Wight ,- for the private pursuit of his studies , was succeeded by librarian Hadley , who , though now removed , still accommodates students on their , way to London : and a female ' librarian at present ' fills this important department with applause .
With regard to the manuscripts of these libraries , they are oblong folios , bound in parchment , lettered on the plan of Mr . Locke ' s Cornmon-PJace Book ; are written by , and kept under the sole care of , the librarian . These manuscripts , which in process of time amount to many volumes , are carefully preserved in the archives of each respective library .
That the reader may not be surprised at our mentioning a female librarian in Oxford , ( which indeed would be less extraordinary if fellows , of colleges were allowed to marry ) it must be remarked , that the other libraries , established on this plan , viz . James ' s , Tom ' s , John ' s , & c . are also conducted by females , who , though properly the sub-librarians , have usurped the right of their husbands in the execution of this office .
The schools of this university are also more numerous than is commonly supposed ; among which we must reckon three spacious and superb edifices , situated to the southward of the High-Street , ioo feet long , by 30 in breadth , vulgarly called Tennis Courts , where
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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
coffee-houses , for the benefit of such of the academics as have neglected , or lost , their Latin and Greek . In these useful repositories , grown gentlemen are accommodated with the Cyclopaedia , in the most expeditious and easy manner . —The Magazines afford history , divinity , philosophy , mathematics , geography , astronomy , biography , arts , sciences , and poetry . —The Reviews form the complete critic , without consulting the dry rules of AristotleOuintilianand Bossu ;
, , and enable the student to pass his jjdgment on volumes which he never read , after the most compendious method . —Novels supply the place of experience , and give lectures of intrigue and gallantry . — Occasional poems diffuse the itch of rhyming , and happily teinpt many a young fellow to forsake logic , turn smart , and commence authoreither in the pastorallyricor elegiac way . —Political
, , , pamphlets teach the inexpediency of continental connections ; that for the punishment of French- perfidjv , we should wage perpetual war with that nation ; and that our conquests in America will raise the jealousy of all Europe . As there are here books suited to every taste , so there are liquors adapted to every species of rending . Amorous tales may be perused
over arrack . punch and jellies ; insipid odes , over orgeat and capillaire ; politics , over coffee ; divinity , over port ; and defences of bad generals , and bad ministers , over whipt syllabubs . In a word , in these libraries instruction and pleasure go hand in hand ; and we may pronounce , in a literal sense , that learning remains no longer a diy pursuit . The most ancient and considerable of these is that in
New-College-Lane , fo . mded by the memorable Mi-. Johnson . He was accordingly constituted the first librarian , and upon his retiring to . the Isle of Wight ,- for the private pursuit of his studies , was succeeded by librarian Hadley , who , though now removed , still accommodates students on their , way to London : and a female ' librarian at present ' fills this important department with applause .
With regard to the manuscripts of these libraries , they are oblong folios , bound in parchment , lettered on the plan of Mr . Locke ' s Cornmon-PJace Book ; are written by , and kept under the sole care of , the librarian . These manuscripts , which in process of time amount to many volumes , are carefully preserved in the archives of each respective library .
That the reader may not be surprised at our mentioning a female librarian in Oxford , ( which indeed would be less extraordinary if fellows , of colleges were allowed to marry ) it must be remarked , that the other libraries , established on this plan , viz . James ' s , Tom ' s , John ' s , & c . are also conducted by females , who , though properly the sub-librarians , have usurped the right of their husbands in the execution of this office .
The schools of this university are also more numerous than is commonly supposed ; among which we must reckon three spacious and superb edifices , situated to the southward of the High-Street , ioo feet long , by 30 in breadth , vulgarly called Tennis Courts , where