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THE HUNTERIAN ORATION.
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compatible with the condition of humanity; and they are consecrated by the homage, which is the instinctive tribute of every liberal mind to one exalted above his species in wisdom, virtue, or talent.

" Quidquid ex Agricolé amavimus, quidquid mirati sumus, manet ; mansurumque est in animis hominum, in aeternitate temporum, fama rerum.[1].”

  1. Tacit. Agricola.