Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . of the saw amore eminent litllratcitrresident in the CollegeWynd, when OliverGoldsmith, an unknownand unheeded youngIrish student, took uphis abode in some airytenement thereof in1752, while attendingthe medical classes priorto the completion of hiseducation at Leyden,whither he went in1754. The Duke ofHamilton—Duke James, who married the beau-tiful Miss Gunning—had engaged the services ofthe young Irishman apparently as a tutor, andwith an eye, it is supposed, to his reputed scholar-ship as an alumnus of Trinity Colleg
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . of the saw amore eminent litllratcitrresident in the CollegeWynd, when OliverGoldsmith, an unknownand unheeded youngIrish student, took uphis abode in some airytenement thereof in1752, while attendingthe medical classes priorto the completion of hiseducation at Leyden,whither he went in1754. The Duke ofHamilton—Duke James, who married the beau-tiful Miss Gunning—had engaged the services ofthe young Irishman apparently as a tutor, andwith an eye, it is supposed, to his reputed scholar-ship as an alumnus of Trinity College, Dublin ; andit has been supposed that a curious tailors billwhich came recently to light in Edinburgh, hadsome reference to liis expected visits to the Dukesapartments in Holyrood, of which the Hamiltonfamily are hereditar) keepers. An old ledger was being torn up for waste paper SIR WALTER SCOTT S ARMS. {From the niustraied Edition o/ ** llr-azerfey by permission of Messrs. A. &?? C. Blact.) (says Wilson in his Reminiscences), whenhappily one of its leav
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