William Coxe (1747-1828) englischer Historiker und Mitglied der Royal Society, hält nicht viel vom Bildungsniveau in Luzern.

The town contains scarely three thousand habitants; has no manufactures of any consequence and little commerce: and as to learning, it no where meets with less encouragement, and consequently is less cultivated. What a contrast to Zuric!

Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland. London 1779