Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… Matt. Bramble to Dr. Lewis (Edinburgh, 8 August) I should be very ungrateful, dear Lewis, if I did not find myself disposed to think and speak … of our vernacular tongue, in twenty years there would be no difference, in point of dialect, between the youth of Edinburgh and of London. The civil regulations of this kingdom and metropolis are taken from very different models from … by which they certainly avoid the evil which I mentioned in my last from Lismahago’s observation. The university of Edinburgh is supplied with excellent professors in all the sciences; and the medical school, in particular, is famous all …
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