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' | <head>1821 May 9th</head> | ||
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<p>P.S. From Salamanca such a book as thine! From Coimbra marks of liberalism altogether correspondent! In the University of Coimbra was Lumonts' edition of my works, almost as soon as edited, an object of attention to the Carvathos, the and the Rochas! What Salamanca and Coimbra were before that time, Oxford and Cambridge are still:-Oxford, in which the whole force of that wretched substitute for a ming, which has been in possession of the rulers has been engrossed (what I say is the result of a course of observation that commenced full sixty years ago) has been engrossed (I say) by the keeping the minds of the rising generation excluded from the whole field of politics and morals; poetry, and the empty or delusive sort of literature styled classical, being the pursuits to which the universal attention has all along been endeavored later by whatsoever of the matter of reward has ever been applied to so much as the show of merit; idleness, dissipation and drunkenness regarded as virtues, and as such secretly cherished rather than that the minds of the ruling few in their growing state should be turned towards the science so aptly style by you the the social science - that science, in the progress of which the allied powers of tyranny have so long and so clearly beheld their final downfall: Oxford, in which, without instruction in any shape, except the little that could originate in my own unfurnished and unfitted mind, I consumed, in vapid idleness, under the notion of receiving an University education, between the age of 13 and 20, after five spent in learning Salsa and Greek at the great father School of Westminster - (another horror-?lling summary) , five or six of the most precious years of my life.</p> | |||
1821 May 9th To Nunes
P.S. From Salamanca such a book as thine! From Coimbra marks of liberalism altogether correspondent! In the University of Coimbra was Lumonts' edition of my works, almost as soon as edited, an object of attention to the Carvathos, the and the Rochas! What Salamanca and Coimbra were before that time, Oxford and Cambridge are still:-Oxford, in which the whole force of that wretched substitute for a ming, which has been in possession of the rulers has been engrossed (what I say is the result of a course of observation that commenced full sixty years ago) has been engrossed (I say) by the keeping the minds of the rising generation excluded from the whole field of politics and morals; poetry, and the empty or delusive sort of literature styled classical, being the pursuits to which the universal attention has all along been endeavored later by whatsoever of the matter of reward has ever been applied to so much as the show of merit; idleness, dissipation and drunkenness regarded as virtues, and as such secretly cherished rather than that the minds of the ruling few in their growing state should be turned towards the science so aptly style by you the the social science - that science, in the progress of which the allied powers of tyranny have so long and so clearly beheld their final downfall: Oxford, in which, without instruction in any shape, except the little that could originate in my own unfurnished and unfitted mind, I consumed, in vapid idleness, under the notion of receiving an University education, between the age of 13 and 20, after five spent in learning Salsa and Greek at the great father School of Westminster - (another horror-?lling summary) , five or six of the most precious years of my life.
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