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Identifier: viewsinedinburgh02stor (find matches)
Title: Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity;
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Storer, James, 1771-1853 Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795-1837
Subjects: Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Pictorial works
Publisher: Edinburgh, A. Constable & Co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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o the principal entrance, with adome : nothing can be more imposing than the grandeur of thisfront; for the simple style of the architecture gives it a hightone of the sublime, and the four enormous columns of the Doricorder, hewn out of one solid stone each, that adorn the mainentrance, and support a handsome portico, rival any thing thatancient architecture can boast. Over the gate is the following inscription : ACIDEMIA JACOBI VI. SCOTORUM REGIS, ANNOPOST CHRISTUM NATUxM M,D,LXXXII. INSTI-TUTA. Annoque M,DCC,LXXX1X. Renovari coepta,Regnante Geohgio III. Principe Munificextissimo ; Ur-Bis Edinexsis, Prefecto Thomo Elder Academic Pri-siARis Gulielmo Robertson. Architecto Roberto Adam. The east and west fronts extend 255 feet in length ; thesouth and north 358 ; and when the building is completed, theprincipal, and six or seven of the professors will have houseswithin its precincts. The library and museum are each 160 feetin length j and the hall for public exercises is 90 by 30 feet.
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THE THEATRE. It is generally known that theatrical entertainments, whiciiare now denounced, were at one time much encouraged bythe clergj. The subjects were scriptural, the clergy thecomposers, the church was the stage, and the sabbath the dayof performance. In the early and dark ages, religious spectacleswere exhibited, representing in dumb show, sometimes inter-mingled with speech, the most interesting scenes in the historyof Christ, such as the incarnation, passion, and resurrection jin process of time, the lives and miracles of the saints weredisplayed, till the popish clergy, endeavouring to impose theirabsurdities and pretended miracles beyond the credulity ofthe people, lost the patronage they had enjoyed, and theirtrash was superseded by more rational entertainments; theseat length became so fraught with buffoonery and indecency,that persons of sober habits could give them no countenance,and soon after the Reformation, the clergy of Scotland endea-voured to abolish them altoge

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