follows an
empty
exchequer."
You shall
find this
sentiment,
if not so
frankly
put, yet
deeply
implied,
in the
novels and
romances
of the
present
century,
and not
only in
these, but
in
biography,
and in the
votes of
public
assemblies,
in the
tone of
the
preaching,
and in the
table-talk.
I was
lately
turning
over
Wood's
_Athenae
Oxonienses_,
and
looking
naturally
for
another
standard
in a
chronicle
of the
scholars
of Oxford
