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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
front indicates a statue of Janus : but the most reasonable hypothesis seems to be that of the truly ingenious author of the Mallard , who has discovered that this column is a just matrimonial emblem , as it plainly exhibits the faces of a man and woman , but of a very sour aspect , and reverted from each other . This hieroglyphic , he conceives , is coeval with the university , and justly supposes , that it was here erectedin the most public part of the placeas a monitory
me-, , mento to the gownsmen , recommending celibacy and a monastic life . . Besides these curious particulars , observable in the p rincipal streets , there are many others in the remote parts of the town , which equally deserve illustration . —Science diffuses its benign influence over the suburbs of Oxford : in which stands a famous college , founded as early as the conquest , where wisdom may be truly , said to
preside . The students of this house are always resident , and are lectured in ethics alone , on the subjects of temperance , humility , patience , and other virtues proper for the class . —Before the collegegates is the place where the first process is performed on bodies intended for the anatomical lectures . Westward of this college is the dentific elaborately of the celebrated professor Webb . The portico is decorated with a symbolical
painting , and an explanatory inscription . This distinguished dentist and dentologist co-operates with his brother professors in the arduous and important business , according to Mr . Paul Juliion ' s phrase , of rectifying deficient heads .
In this quarter of the town the curious are likewise invited to visit an antique pot-house , known by the historical sign of Whittington and his Cat . Here that laborious antiquarian , Mr . Thomas Hearne , one evening , suffered himself to . be overtaken in liquor : but it should be remembered , that this accident was more owing to his love of antiquity than of ale . It happened that the kitchen where he and his companion were sitting , was neatly paved with sheep ' s
trottersdis-, posed in various compartments . After one pipe , Mr . Hearne , consistently with his usual gravity and sobriety , proposed to depart ; but his friend , who was inclined to enjoy more of his company , artfull y observed , that the floor on which they were then sitting , was no less than an original tessellated Roman pavement . Out of respect to classic ground , and on recollection that the Sransfield Roman
pavement , on which he had just published a dissertation , was dedicated to Bacchus , our antiquary cheerfully complied : an enthusiastic transport seized his imagination ; he fell on his knees , and kissed the sacred earth , on which , in a few hours , and after a few tankards , by a sort of sympathetic attraction , he was obliged to repose for some part of the evening . His friend was probablin the same condition ;
y but two printers , accidentally coming in , conducted Mr . Hearne , betwixt them , to Edmund Hall , with much state and solemnity . In the northern suburb there is a structure dedicated to Hymen , whose votaries are here introduced to the mysteries of that deity , and receive their first passport . The keeper of this hallowed edifice has emblematically decorated the entrance . with a pair of fetters .
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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
front indicates a statue of Janus : but the most reasonable hypothesis seems to be that of the truly ingenious author of the Mallard , who has discovered that this column is a just matrimonial emblem , as it plainly exhibits the faces of a man and woman , but of a very sour aspect , and reverted from each other . This hieroglyphic , he conceives , is coeval with the university , and justly supposes , that it was here erectedin the most public part of the placeas a monitory
me-, , mento to the gownsmen , recommending celibacy and a monastic life . . Besides these curious particulars , observable in the p rincipal streets , there are many others in the remote parts of the town , which equally deserve illustration . —Science diffuses its benign influence over the suburbs of Oxford : in which stands a famous college , founded as early as the conquest , where wisdom may be truly , said to
preside . The students of this house are always resident , and are lectured in ethics alone , on the subjects of temperance , humility , patience , and other virtues proper for the class . —Before the collegegates is the place where the first process is performed on bodies intended for the anatomical lectures . Westward of this college is the dentific elaborately of the celebrated professor Webb . The portico is decorated with a symbolical
painting , and an explanatory inscription . This distinguished dentist and dentologist co-operates with his brother professors in the arduous and important business , according to Mr . Paul Juliion ' s phrase , of rectifying deficient heads .
In this quarter of the town the curious are likewise invited to visit an antique pot-house , known by the historical sign of Whittington and his Cat . Here that laborious antiquarian , Mr . Thomas Hearne , one evening , suffered himself to . be overtaken in liquor : but it should be remembered , that this accident was more owing to his love of antiquity than of ale . It happened that the kitchen where he and his companion were sitting , was neatly paved with sheep ' s
trottersdis-, posed in various compartments . After one pipe , Mr . Hearne , consistently with his usual gravity and sobriety , proposed to depart ; but his friend , who was inclined to enjoy more of his company , artfull y observed , that the floor on which they were then sitting , was no less than an original tessellated Roman pavement . Out of respect to classic ground , and on recollection that the Sransfield Roman
pavement , on which he had just published a dissertation , was dedicated to Bacchus , our antiquary cheerfully complied : an enthusiastic transport seized his imagination ; he fell on his knees , and kissed the sacred earth , on which , in a few hours , and after a few tankards , by a sort of sympathetic attraction , he was obliged to repose for some part of the evening . His friend was probablin the same condition ;
y but two printers , accidentally coming in , conducted Mr . Hearne , betwixt them , to Edmund Hall , with much state and solemnity . In the northern suburb there is a structure dedicated to Hymen , whose votaries are here introduced to the mysteries of that deity , and receive their first passport . The keeper of this hallowed edifice has emblematically decorated the entrance . with a pair of fetters .