...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...d; did great injustice; demolished many beautiful things and many valuable libraries; destroyed numbers of paintings, stained glass windows, fine pave... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time... ...lar, how it comforted him, at that pass, to have assisted in reforming the national religion, a member of the Council was seen riding up on horseback.... ...ament joined in a petition expressive of their sorrow at the change in the national religion, and praying him to receive the country again into the Po... ... complete defeat. The losses they met with in France greatly mortified the national pride, and the Queen never recovered the blow. There was a bad fev...

...that is not better expressed than was usual before he appeared to lead the national taste. Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I ... ...eisure to make an excursion to Oxford, for the pur- pose of consulting the libraries there. 95 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Of his conversation while at... ...that time print- ing Polybius. He was then asked whether there were better libraries at Oxford or Cambridge. He answered, he believed the Bodleian was... ...cotland with a good humoured pleasantry, which gave me, though no bigot to national prejudices, an op- portunity for a little contest with him. I havi... ...e had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us, and that their national petulance re- quired periodical chastisement. ‘Speaking of a dull ... ...e. As to his prejudice against the Scotch, which I always ascribed to that nationality which he observed in them, he said to the same gentle- man, ‘Wh... ...ppose, in grati- tude to him, he took up one of his favourite topicks, the nationality of the Scotch, which he maintained in a pleasant manner, with t... ...09 Boswell’s Life of Johnson look at catalogues, and the backs of books in libraries.’ Sir Joshua observed to me the ex- traordinary promptitude with ... ...Boswell’s description of him, ‘A robust genius, born to grapple with whole libraries.’ He had been in company with Omai, a native of one of the South ...

...the role that the library has played. Any city that has had a great impact on learning has had a great library behind it, fueling that learning. Libraries date back to 1900 BC in the Sumerian city of Nippur. Nippur’s library held tens of thousands of inscribed clay tablets. These tablets themselves dated as far back as 2600 BC and included mathematical tables and alma...

...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...nculcates and parades. He thinks very ill of the atmosphere of parlours or libraries. Wisdom keeps school outdoors. And he has the art to recommend th... ... would have been difficult to select for a start in life. Not even a man’s nationality was certain; for the people of Paris there was no such thing as... ...ry way. There must certainly be some mistake. Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage? And for the matte...