Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853.

  • Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864
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1853
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Credit: Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    critics and laborious scholars, are exercising their ingenuity upon all that has been dis¬ covered, and upon a great deal that has not;—I argue, both from this pervading and continuing correspondence between the Literature that has been termed Sacred, and been termed Profane, as well as from the general truth that the Author of the Universe is the source of all its beauty, and all its inspiration, that it can be no more* our duty to leave the excellencies of Classical Literature unexplored and uncared for, than it would be for the tourist or painter to track the upward course of that fair stream which waters your tow'll, and not let his enthusiasm thrill with a livelier pulse amid the ravines of Braemar, or his reverence kindle into a warmer glow' under the crests of Lochnagar. I w'ish, however, principally, wdthin such short limit of time as still remains to me, instead of dilating further upon the character of those studies in these seats of learning, whether literary or scientific, which have already sufii- ciently commended themselves to the approval of mankind, to enter into somewhat more of immediate communication with the living mass of youth which I survey around me ; and, ha it is by their favour that I have been thus in¬ vested w'ith the privilege to address, and even