Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have recourse, on all proper occasions, to his experience and advice. Many cautions, too, did I receive on the score of extravagance ; and ignorant as I then was, either of the value or necessity of money, I promised without regret or scruple, that my expenses should be confined within the narrowest limits my father might impose. At length, all was finished; and, duly furnished with letters to my uncle and Professor R , in whose family I was to become an inmate, I took a mournful and affectionate leave of my family; and, attended by a steady servant, stepped into the north mail, and on the third morning from my departure, found myself §afely arrived at the place of my destination. CHAPTER V. . I'll view the manners of tho town, Peruse tho traders, gaze upon the buildings. And wander up and down to view the city. Comedy of Errors. " And this," said I to myself, as I gazed from the window of my inn, on the crowd and bustle in the street below—" this is Glasgow!—this the chosen seat of Science and the Muses—this the academic quiet, in which the mind of youth is to be nursed in the calm abstractions of Philosophy! " There was, indeed, rather a ludicrous contrast between the ideas I had conjured up, and the scene before me; and I could scarcely regard it without smiling. In the centre of the street, waggons, loaded with merchandize of different sorts, passed without intermission; and on the trottoirs two opposing torrents of passengers were pouring along with extreme rapidity, and with looks full of anxiety and business. Of these some would occasionally stop for a moment's conversation, on which a loud and vulgar laugh mingled anon with the prevailing dissonance, and added unnecessarily to the general cacophony. Their gait and gestures, too, were singularly awk...