-
Articles/Ads
Article BARNARD'S INN, HOLBORN. ← Page 2 of 3 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Barnard's Inn, Holborn.
Alchemists . * That singular being—singular in each sense of the word—lived into the beginning of the present century . Sir Humphry Davy has left ns a description of the home , the personal appearance , and eccentricities of the philosopher , whose seclusion and researches were unbrightened by any of the cheerfulness . which , as Edwards , his old schoolfellow , naively told Dr . Johnson , he had found to effectually discourage all continuance in the one or
prosecution in the other . Here he died as he had lived—solitary ; whatever secrets lie may have discovered remained secrets to all the world besides . Desolate and otherwise forgotten has been this little Inn for generations past , but it was a brave place in its clay . Tradition still lingers , with whispering voice , around its isolated quadrangles of the once useful Ancients , of their nine Companions with the Principal at their head . The Companions , elected
by the Principal and the Ancients , enjoyed the privilege of countless dinners in the Hall . The Ancients had an additional title to the receipt of certain " little fees , " whilst the Principal , as master of the revels , had no graver responsibilities cast upon him than lay in keeping his small society within the easy limits of a moderate decorum . The Royal Commission which sat in 1854 on an inquiry into our Inns of Court of Chancery , failed to elicit any evidence of material importance in respect of the antecedents of Barnard ' s Inn or its possessors . No students , it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Barnard's Inn, Holborn.
Alchemists . * That singular being—singular in each sense of the word—lived into the beginning of the present century . Sir Humphry Davy has left ns a description of the home , the personal appearance , and eccentricities of the philosopher , whose seclusion and researches were unbrightened by any of the cheerfulness . which , as Edwards , his old schoolfellow , naively told Dr . Johnson , he had found to effectually discourage all continuance in the one or
prosecution in the other . Here he died as he had lived—solitary ; whatever secrets lie may have discovered remained secrets to all the world besides . Desolate and otherwise forgotten has been this little Inn for generations past , but it was a brave place in its clay . Tradition still lingers , with whispering voice , around its isolated quadrangles of the once useful Ancients , of their nine Companions with the Principal at their head . The Companions , elected
by the Principal and the Ancients , enjoyed the privilege of countless dinners in the Hall . The Ancients had an additional title to the receipt of certain " little fees , " whilst the Principal , as master of the revels , had no graver responsibilities cast upon him than lay in keeping his small society within the easy limits of a moderate decorum . The Royal Commission which sat in 1854 on an inquiry into our Inns of Court of Chancery , failed to elicit any evidence of material importance in respect of the antecedents of Barnard ' s Inn or its possessors . No students , it