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THE

UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE,

NEW SERIES.

CONTAINING

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

1N

HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, THE BELLES LETTRES,
POLITICS, AMUSEMENTS,

&c. &c.

VOL. XIV.

JULY to DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE.

1810.

LONDON:

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(Successors to Mr. H. D. SYMONDS), No 20, Paternoster-Row;
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THE

UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.

N° LXXX.-VOL. XIV.]

For JULY, 1810.

[NEW SERIES.

"We shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if we can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to tru h."-DR. JOHNSON.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

The ADVENTURES and TRAVELS, in would, while we are yet a short disvarious Parts of the Globe, of tance from the town, promise never HENRY VOGEL. Translated from the German.

[Continued from Vol. x111. p. 301.]

to neglect your college studies without the strictest necessity, nor visit taverns or brothels, nor engage in any duels, nor to spend more yearly than

AS we approached towards Jena, what you can spend without involving

yourselves in debt."

our worthy tutor said to us, am not wholly without anxiety that I shall be forced to leave you, in a While he was thus addressing us, few days, so entirely to yourseles our driver was accosted by the sentiand so far from my inspection. If I nel who stood at the city gates, and Ived but a few miles from here, I who demanded of him who we were? would see you at least once a week; by which our discourse was interfor no one needs the advice of a faith- rupted, and the advice which we were ful friend more than a youth at the receiving. We drove through Johnuniversity. His future destiny, I street, across the market, and alighted might almost say, is here alone mark- at the Sun iun. What a world! we ed out, and he may ascribe his future exclaimed to our tutor, as we beheld, life, whether it be prosperous or ad- all at once, some hundreds of stuverse, happy or unhappy, to the course dents assembled in the magnificent which he has held during his abode market place, part of whom were at the university. It is true, that a orderly and decent in their behaviour, certain warmth and enthusiasm of were drunk and riotous, and all character are peculiar to youth, and they often lead them into the most alarming excesses in the higher schools, they behold themselves possessing freedom, and few have learned how to respect themselves.

loudly roaring out together. We could not sufficiently look at such a numerous collection of students.

Next day we hired a room, entered our names upon the list of students, and cultivated the acquaintance of the "At universities, and especially at professors whose lectures we proone so numerously attended as this of posed to attend: we were received by Jena is, we may often find, among so all of them in a very friendly manner. many students, many who yield them- We received a general invitation to selves up to intemperate delights, and them, and the assurance that they who not only disturb their own wel- would assist us on all occasions with fare, but also become dangerous to their advice. The late WALCH shewthose, by their example, whom a good ed, by his actions, that he had not and virtuous education had rendered promised in vain. My school-fellow, disinclined to every species of irregu- and now my fellow-lodger, who had larity. When I consider these and but little to spend, received from him many other perils, I cannot deny that not only all his lectures free of exI am in fear as to the consequences pense, but he promised him also, of committing you, my dear children, gratuitously, a place at AMTHOR'S to the direction of a university tutor table in Convictorio. This liberal amidst so many dangers and it would legacy or bequest had been bequeathbe a real consolation to me, if you ed a few years before (viz. 1747) by

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