lican fury, and that while it reprobates the absurdity of an equality of condition, it respects and upholds an equality of rights. In these tranquil retirements of genius and taste, in these classic groves of learning and science, we trust that religion and liberty have formed an inseparable alliance-not, indeed, that distorted religion, which engages the veneration of the enthusiast and the devotee, not that meretricious liberty which captivates the Utopian speculatist, or inflames the frantic demagogue; but religion, which rectifies the obliquities of human conduct, and liberty, which harmonizes the discor dant interests of human society. In the one we shall find that meliorating influence, which subdues the impetuosity of the passions, without clouding the understanding, and from the other we shall derive all that can increase theenjoyments of social intercourse, without endangering the security of social order. The one is professedly friendly to a rational, an enlarged, and an enlightened faith; the other is as resolutely hostile to indiscriminate innovation and tumultuous reform.

"That man," observes the author of the

Rambler*, "is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona." And he who in tracing the academic haunts of the wise and the learned of elder times, does not feel inspired by the recollection of departed excellence, and whose bosom does not, for one moment, glow with the fire of enthusiasm, must surely be regarded with sentiments not far removed from astonishment and commiseration. In vain shall we look for the love of literature in that cold and heartless being, who experiences nothing beyond ordinary sensations, when he contemplates the venerable pile rendered sacred by the residence of Newton †, when he enters the chamber where Erasmus studied, when he is shaded by the tree planted by the hand of Milton, or when he treads the same

* Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

The rooms assigned by tradition to Newton and Erasmus are still pointed out at Trinity and Queen's, and the mulberry-tree is still standing in the garden of Christ College, which is said to have been placed there by Milton.

path which was worn by the footsteps of Cowley, Dryden, or Gray. or Gray. From minds of this complexion we can hope for no sympathy, we can expect no cordial approbation. It is only to men of an opposite character that we should ever venture to appeal, or to whose decision we can attach any value or respect. Calling then to mind the multifarious branches of human knowledge which are pursued with ardour, and cultivated with success, within the walls of our northern Athens; recounting from the pages of its register, the luminous assemblage of names, dear to every lover of intellect, and

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* I cannot resist the opportunity, which here, presents itself, of following a great example, and of mentioning the names of a few of those distinguished men, whose celebrity, it is true, no additional praise can increase, but of whom it is not always remembered that they were educated at Cambridge. They are inserted without any particular regard to chronological accuracy. Archbishop Cranmer; Bishops Ridley, Latimer, and Andrews; Archbishops Whitgift and Parker; Jeremy Taylor, the celebrated bishop of Down; Bishop Walton, the famed editor of the London Polyglott; Castel, who published the Lexicon Heptaglotton; Ockley, the Orientalist; Dr. Isaac Barrow; Cudworth; Spencer, the

immortalized in the memories of the wise and good; recollecting, that to this source we are

writer de Legibus Hebræorum; Joseph Mede, Dr. Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury; Bishop Wilkins; Dr. Henry More, of Christ College; Lightfoot, the great Hebrew scholar; Pool, the author of the Synopsis; Bishops Beveridge and Kidder; Dr. Burnet, the master of the Charter House; Archbishop Tillotson; Bishops Cumberland, Patrick, Stillingfleet; Dr. Con yers Middleton; Bishops Hare, Sherlock, and Hoadly; Dr. Samuel Clarke; Dr. Sykes; Bishop Chandler; Dr. Waterland; Wollaston, the author of the " Religion of Nature;" Hartley; Dr. Rutherforth; Dr. Jortin; Bishops Newton, Hurd, and Law; Dr. Powell and Dr. Ogden, with numerous other great divines. Bacon; Newton; Whiston; Oughtred; Roger Cotes, whose early death was so justly lamented by Newton; Colson; Dr. Robert Smith, the master of Trinity; Saunderson; Wallis; Henry Briggs, the improver of logarithms; Horrox, who made the first observations on the transit of Venus; Ray; Derham; Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood; Dr. Long, the master of Pembroke; Dr. Stephen Hales, the author of "Vegetable Statics;" Brook Taylor; Dr. Waring; Dr. Maskelyne, &c.—Chaucer (according to Mr. Tyrwhit, of Oxford); Spenser; Ben Jonson; Fletcher; Beaumont; Sir John Harrington, the translator of the Orlando Furioso; Bishop Hall, one of our earliest writers of satires; Donne; Waller; Cowley; Milton; Dryden; Otway; Andrew Marvel; Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Duke of Buckingham,

indebted for the sublime discoveries of Bacon and Newton, for the unrivalled productions of

author of "The Rehearsal;" Garth; Fenton; Broome; Prior; Lee, the dramatic poet; Ambrose Philips; Granville, Lord Lansdowne; Vincent Bourn; Gray; Mason.-Crooke and Sir John Cheke, both Greek Professors; Roger Ascham; Bentley; Davies, the learned president of Queen's; Joshua Barnes; Dawes, the author of Miscellanea Critica; Ashton; Markland; Wasse; Thirlby; Stanley, the editor of Eschy lus; Taylor, the editor of Lysias and Demosthenes; Bishop Pearce; Foster, the defender of Greek accents.-Cowell, the eminent civilian; Dr. Stukely, Dr. Cave, and Peck, the antiquaries; Bentham, the historian of Ely; Sir Robert Cotton; Sir James Burroughs, the master of Caius, of architectural fame; Roger Gale, the antiquary; LaurenceSterne. Sir Thomas Smith, secretary of state to Edw. VI.; Cecil Lord Burleigh; Sir Francis Walsingham; the great lawyer Sir Edward Coke; Lord Falkland, so justly panegyrized in Clarendon's History; Sir William Temple; Robert Nelson; Sir Thomas Gresham; Sir Robert Walpole; Horace Walpole, Lord Orford; Lord Chesterfield; and Soame Jenyns.] -For names of more recent date, I refer the reader to the ample catalogue contained in the notes to the celebrated Spital Sermon of Dr. Parr.-In those who have arrived at years of maturity, and who fortunately find in the acquisition of knowledge its own reward, a recital, like the present, may serve no other purpose than to generate pleasing re