The Connoisseur Author:Alexander Chalmers 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: A gay coach and six, belonging to a young heir just of age, came to town last week in great splendour, and was intended to be matched with an equipage of the sam... more »e kind: but having unfortunately run against Arthur's chocolate-htmse, it broke down, and the owner was very much hurt. We hear from Bath, that the post-chaise of a young lady of great beauty lately made its appearance in the long room, and soon after went ofl' with the landau of a neighbouring country 'squire. We are also informed from the same place, that an old-fashioned two-wheel chaise with a single horse, contrived to hold only one person, had driven about the walks for some time; but having jostled against the sulky of an old bachelor, in his grand climacteric, it was judged expedient to join them together ; when they formed a most agreeable vis-d-yis, for the mutual accommodation of both parties. N 113. THURSDAY, MARCH 25,1756. O sancliis gentes, quibus htec nascuntur in hortis Numina!" O hallow '(1 ground ! a grove here rev'rend nods, Here thick plantations rise of all the gods. is almost the only instance in which the appearance of literary knowledge is afiected in the present age ; and our persons of rank acquire just enough scholarship, to qualify themselves for Connoisseurs. This sort of students become sufficiently acquainted with the customs of the ancients, to learnthe least interesting particulars concerning them. They can distinguish a Tiberius from a Trajan, know the pantheon from the amphitheatre, and can explain the difference between the prcetexta and the tunica: which (only supposing the present times to have elapsed some hundred years) is just as deep knowledge, as if some future antiquary should discover the difference between a Carolus and an Anna, or St. Paul's church and Dru...« less