text:  How then has it happened that the same acquaintance with foreign and distant countries which is universally felt to be such an advantage in conversation is attended with such opposite effects in literature; and that while our travellers are often the most agreeable men in company they are beyond all question the dullest in composition? Much of this extraordinary and woful deficiency we are persuaded is owing to the limited range of objects to which the education of the young of the higher classes is so exclusively directed in Oxford and Cambridge