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hiit a vei ¥ M % ffic ! iS ^ tt ^ vaBit . > < B « teldl tfaf- < $ l 8 $ * <*^ ^ Ifs ^ al ^ eM ^ M 4 iti ^ settee , 1 tMAI ^ I ^ s ^ ifl ^ ge toy self % dr 1 ; h d fall and faithful'dfectkarg ^ of iiiy % ffle ^ , ia ter « & of the / stfleiaM oath Which I have this day taken in you * presence . If vou have ehwlfeii a Rector who ean ?
do * y ° but Ktfle service , * think I can promise that at least he shalldo you no dishonour , —^ abd here freely engage to perform alt thfe duties that belong to' nky place , uninfluenced ' either by love of popularity ot fear of offence , and unsediiced even by that habitual indolence , from which I have always
been in much greater danger . And , in concluding , I veiny perhaps be permitted to say , thkt , however fitting it Is that this place should generally be filled by persons of rank and authority , it inay not be altogether without its use , now * and then to exalt to it an individual whose only titles to that distinction are las lore of letters ,
and of the establishment which is here dedicated to their honour . An excitement may . thus be given to honourable ambition in some Dosoms that might have slumbered over an ordinary instailatioh ; - —and I cannot help fondly imagining , that the spectacle of this
day may waft a spark to some aspiring and yet unkindled heart , that may hereafter spread a blaze of glory rouna its owner and the place of his training . I have but a word more to say , and that is addressed ; perhaps needlessly ,
to the younger part of my hearers . It would be absurd to suppose that they had not heard often enough of the dignity of the -studies in which they are engaged , and of the infinite importance of improving the time that is now allotted for their cultivation .
Such remarks , however , I think I can recollect , are sometimes received with distrust , when they come from those anxious teachers whose authority they way seem intended to iricrease—and therefore I venture to think , that it
may not be altogether useless for me to add nrty unsuspected testimony in behalf of those great truths " ; and , while I' remind the careless youth around me , that the successful pursuit
of their present studied is ( indispensable to the attainment of fame * or fortune in aftfcr Iifei also to assure them , from nay own experience , that tttey have a v far beyond their subserviency to worthy prdsparity ? tod' will * supply ,
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in wery feituatibiif the ptirest and most permaneiit enjt > yfnent- ^ at once adoriw ing and relieving the toils and venations of a busy life , and refinmg and exalting the enjoyments of a social ope . If # impossible , however , that those studied
can be pursued to advantage in $ (> great aii establishment as this , without thet ikiost dutiful observance bf t&afc discipline and subordination without which so numerous a society must unavoidably fall into the most
miserable disorder , and the whole benefits of its arrangements be lost . As one of the guardians of this discipline , I cannot bid you farewell , therefore * without most earnestly entreating you to submit cheerfully , habitually and gracefully , to all that the parental authority of your instructors may find
it necessary to enjoin—being fully persuaded , that such a free and becoming submission is not only the best proof of the value you put on their instructions , but , in so far as I have ever observed , the most unequivocal test of a truly generous and independent eharacter .
I have now only to repeat my thanks for the great honour I this day receive ? at your hands , and for the Kindness with which ypu have listened to these observations .
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Sir , Torquay , March 6 , 1821 . ALLOW a member of the Unitarian Fund to express the satisfaction with which he has noticed a
recent resolution of that Society to extend its endeavours to foreign objects . At the last ( Jerietal Meetingthre 6 additional members were added to the committee , with an especial view to this poiht . This gives me hope that that just reproach of
Uuitanahs , their inactivity m promoting the knowledge of the common salvatkrn , is about to be wiped away . For F willingly believe , th&t in these foreign objects is intended to be embraced not only the promotion of Unitarinnisto in
foreign Christian <; ountriefc , but also the promotion of GJiristianitV in fdfeigfr Heathen CoiftktA % & i tiii obUci wlu $ B . of the two , Wi \ p b& fijldwed"WWw ' far the n 4 oteitet > tii * tfentfcndjtfec 06 feaw ! Indeed ; ih all tfur * fex # fciohs '* & <« &
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V ^ M ^ H ^^^ HIV After Mr . Jeffrey had sat down , the cheers arid acclamations of the audience were continued for several minutes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/23/
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