There hills and rocks intercept every prospect: here 'tis all a continued plain.

There you might see a well-dressed duchess issuing from a dirty close; and here a dirty Dutchman inhabiting a palace.

The Scotch may be compared to a tulip planted in dung; but I never see a Dutchman in his own house but I think of a magnificent Egyptian temple dedicated to an ox.

Physic is by no means here taught so well as in Edinburgh: and in all Leyden there are but four British students, owing to all necessaries being so extremely dear and the professors so very lazy (the chemical professor excepted) that we don't much care to come hither." When the time came to make the "Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning" Leyden had to suffer.

Goldsmith laid about him with no gentle hand.