Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . n place to a modern and more commodious building, but the spot stillremains to prove that the greatest achievements may be sometimes accomplished by the humb-lest means, and under circumstances of the utmost disadvantage. From the city of the unlettered preacher I turned my steps towards the ecclesiastical anduniversity city of Cambridge. As it is interesting to stand at the source of mighty rivers, and contemplatethe influences anduses of the manystreams that flowtowa
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . n place to a modern and more commodious building, but the spot stillremains to prove that the greatest achievements may be sometimes accomplished by the humb-lest means, and under circumstances of the utmost disadvantage. From the city of the unlettered preacher I turned my steps towards the ecclesiastical anduniversity city of Cambridge. As it is interesting to stand at the source of mighty rivers, and contemplatethe influences anduses of the manystreams that flowtoward the sea, sois it interesting tostand in a city likeCambridge, a no-ble seat of learn-ing, and think ofthe vast influenceit has exercisedupon the world,century after cen-tury, for a thou-sand years. Whilehere it may beconvenient to re-fer to the sisterUniversity of Ox-ford. The Univer-sity of Oxford con-sists of twenty col-leges and fivehalls. I must notpass from Oxfordwithout referringto the celebrated,and. indeed, un-Ijaralleled, Bod-lean library. Thismarvelous librarycontains threehundred and fifty-six thousand vol-. OXFORD COLLEGE. IX ENG/.AXD. 43 umes, and twenty-five thousand manuscripts, many af them of the greatest rarity and vah; are compelled by law to give to this library, as well as to the library of the BritishMuseum in London, a copy of every book published in England. In addition to this, mu-seums, institutions, observatories, scientific and learned societies abound in the citv, and alto-gether it is a city of prodigious knowledge. One other object of interest I must mention before I pass on, and that is the spot madesacred by the blood of the saints—Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley—who were burned here inthe days of so-called religious intolerance. During a subsequent visit to England, I revisited most of the old spots, and renewedmany friendships of which I had cherished such fond recollection, in addition to which Ivisited at least a hundred towns
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