. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. rials for, his great work, the Commentaries onthe Latin Tongue. Letter to Bude, Orat. Duce in Tholosam, p. 105. II. Padua. Once remotest nntion^ cameTo adore that !.atrcil flame,When it lit not many a hearthOn this cold and gloomy cnrth. SHBixrr. OLET was now seven-teen years of age, andhis thoughts naturallyturned to that countrywhich, ever si
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. rials for, his great work, the Commentaries onthe Latin Tongue. Letter to Bude, Orat. Duce in Tholosam, p. 105. II. Padua. Once remotest nntion^ cameTo adore that !.atrcil flame,When it lit not many a hearthOn this cold and gloomy cnrth. SHBixrr. OLET was now seven-teen years of age, andhis thoughts naturallyturned to that countrywhich, ever since theclose of the RomanRepublic, the inhab-itants of the rest ofEurope have desiredto visit, but whichwas then in a specialdegree and for specialreasons the goal of all students. Art, science, and lite-rature flourished in Italy to an extent which renderedit not unreasonable in the Italians to look on the nationsof the North and West as barbarous. There was scarcelya scholar who attained eminence who did not seek topass some time in one of the Universities of Italy. * We find scholars from the still more barbaroos Britain looking oaFrance, as the French scholars and students looked on ItaJy. Sc« Buchanaatpoem, .\dventus in Galliam. C. 18 ETIENNE DO LET. Padua, Bologna, Pavia were all crowded with Frenchand German students; but it was at Padua that theywere found in the greatest number. The University wasthen at the height of its reputation ; in literature, philo-sophy, and medicine no University could compare withit. Founded two hundred years before, its reputation hadbeen gradually rising, though suffering temporary eclipsewhen the fortune of war and the change of masters hadoccasioned it to close its lecture-rooms. Early in thefifteenth century it had come into the possession of theVenetians, and under the sheltering aegis of the great re-public (not then the close and jealous oligarchy which sheafterwards became) the studies of the University wereencouraged, liberal stipe
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