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 years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Entering a profession without any previous acquisitions of this kind, is building too bold a superstructure.

by lecture, as at Edinburgh, may make men scholars, if they think proper; but instructing by examination, as at Oxford, will make them so, often against their inclination.

only disposes the student to receive learning; Oxford often makes him actually learned.

a word, were I poor, I should send my son to Leyden, or Edinburgh, tho' the annual expence in either, particular-