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 could be enjoyed by no other: what still increased this ardour, was its cheapness, the bounty of the King, made it one of the cheapest seminaries for the education of youth, in the world.—No plan could have ornamented Stanley with a greater number of noble edifices: all the colleges, but particularly St. George's, are admirable, and perhaps the world cannot boast such a number of buildings with so few faults. St. John's is the worst; but St. George's, of which Gilbert was the architect, is inferior to no edifice of its kind in the world.

The Arsenal was the work of Salviola; and is undoubtedly the most stupendous building of that nature in Europe: the plainness of the front is admirable: and the situation, making one side of that noble square, was chose with great