The Wealth Of
England Was Undoubtedly To That Of Scotland More Than Five To One,
And It Is Known That Henry The Eighth, Among Whose Faults Avarice
Was Never Reckoned, Granted To Roger Ascham, As A Reward Of His
Learning, A Pension Of Ten Pounds A Year.
The other, called the Marischal College, is in the new town.
The
hall is large and well lighted. One of its ornaments is the
picture of Arthur Johnston, who was principal of the college, and
who holds among the Latin poets of Scotland the next place to the
elegant Buchanan.
In the library I was shewn some curiosities; a Hebrew manuscript of
exquisite penmanship, and a Latin translation of Aristotle's
Politicks by Leonardus Aretinus, written in the Roman character
with nicety and beauty, which, as the art of printing has made them
no longer necessary, are not now to be found. This was one of the
latest performances of the transcribers, for Aretinus died but
about twenty years before typography was invented. This version
has been printed, and may be found in libraries, but is little
read; for the same books have been since translated both by
Victorius and Lambinus, who lived in an age more cultivated, but
perhaps owed in part to Aretinus that they were able to excel him.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left
only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
In both these colleges the methods of instruction are nearly the
same; the lectures differing only by the accidental difference of
diligence, or ability in the professors.
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