Oxford, Oxfordshire


Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide Through Great Britain (1801):

Oxford, a celebrated university, and a bishop's see. Besides the cathedral it has thirteen parish churches. It is seated at the confluence of the Thames and Cherwell, on an emininence. The town is three miles in circumference, and is of a circular form. It consists chiefly of two spacious streets, crossing each other in the middle of the town. The university is said to have been founded by the immortal Alfred, receiving from him many privileges and large revenues. Here are twenty colleges and five halls, several of which are in the streets, and tive the city an air of magnificence. The colleges are Univeristy, Baliol, Merton, Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, Nw, Lincoln, All-Souls, Magdalen, Brasenose, Corpus Christi, Christchurch, Trinity, St. John Baptist's, Jesus, Wadham, Pembroke, Worcester, and Hertfrod. The halls are Alban, Edmund, St. Mary's, New Inn, and ST. Mary Magdalen. All travellers agree in confessing that there is not such another group of buildings nor such another university in the world.

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Quotations
 Chapter 2 
Edmund’s friendship never failed her: his leaving Eton for Oxford made no change in his kind dispositions, and only afforded more frequent opportunities of proving them.
 Chapter 9 
"One wishes it were not so; but I have not yet left Oxford long enough to forget what chapel prayers are.”
 Chapter 9 
"At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison."
 Chapter 38 
They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of Edmund’s college as they passed along, and made no stop anywhere till they reached Newbury, where a comfortable meal, uniting dinner and supper, wound up the enjoyments and fatigues of the day.
 Chapter 46 
The next morning produced a little more. Just before their setting out from Oxford, while Susan was stationed at a window, in eager observation of the departure of a large family from the inn, the other two were standing by the fire;
 Chapter 46 
The first division of their journey occupied a long day, and brought them, almost knocked up, to Oxford; but the second was over at a much earlier hour.
 

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