Charlottesville, Virginia
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- | "In 1822, [ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ] returned to the United States, and after passing a few months at an Academy in Richmond, he entered the University at Charlottesville, where he led a very dissipated life ; the manners which then prevailed there were extremely dissolute, and he was known as the wildest and most reckless student of his class; but his unusual opportunities, and the remarkable ease with which he mastered the most difficult studies, kept him all the while in the first rank for scholarship, and he would have graduated with the highest honors, had not his gambling, intemperance, and other vices, induced his expulsion from the university." --''[[Edgar Poe, a Psychopathic Study]]'' | + | "In 1822, [ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ] returned to the United States, and after passing a few months at an Academy in Richmond, he entered the [[University of Virginia|University at Charlottesville]], where he led a very dissipated life ; the manners which then prevailed there were extremely dissolute, and he was known as the wildest and most reckless student of his class; but his unusual opportunities, and the remarkable ease with which he mastered the most difficult studies, kept him all the while in the first rank for scholarship, and he would have graduated with the highest honors, had not his gambling, intemperance, and other vices, induced his expulsion from the university." --''[[Edgar Poe, a Psychopathic Study]]'' |
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'''Charlottesville''', colloquially '''Cville''', is an [[independent city (United States)|independent city]] in the [[Commonwealth (U.S. state)|Commonwealth]] of [[Virginia]]. | '''Charlottesville''', colloquially '''Cville''', is an [[independent city (United States)|independent city]] in the [[Commonwealth (U.S. state)|Commonwealth]] of [[Virginia]]. | ||
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"In 1822, [ Edgar Allan Poe ] returned to the United States, and after passing a few months at an Academy in Richmond, he entered the University at Charlottesville, where he led a very dissipated life ; the manners which then prevailed there were extremely dissolute, and he was known as the wildest and most reckless student of his class; but his unusual opportunities, and the remarkable ease with which he mastered the most difficult studies, kept him all the while in the first rank for scholarship, and he would have graduated with the highest honors, had not his gambling, intemperance, and other vices, induced his expulsion from the university." --Edgar Poe, a Psychopathic Study |
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Charlottesville, colloquially Cville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.