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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    not her own.” “ In honour preferring one another.” These, depend upon it, young friends, these are the rules to test your moral progress, to measure your heavenward growth. Most sincere, indeed, is my wish for all of you that when, amid all the diverging paths and multifarious duties of your after lives, you look back upon the years that are now gliding too swiftly past you here, it may he to recognise in them tlie starting point from which you entered upon your several careers of eminence and dis¬ tinction, enriched by the acquisitions with wliich you will have stored your own minds, and ennobled by the purposes of usefulness and phil¬ anthropy to which you will hereafter consecrate them ; it should, however, be never left out of view', that eminence and distinction, in their very nature, cannot be the lot of all; they do not always follow upon endeavour, they do not invariably attend desert. But you may have learned better things from the mental and intel¬ lectual training of this place; you never could have learned them more effectively than from one of my most honoured predecessors in office —the learned and excellent Dr. Abercrombie— whose inaugural address from this chair is a perfect manual for the discipline of the mind and understanding, shewing most powerfully to