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interest of us all to encourage, whether we have* 

 recourse to them as a relaxation from the severer 

 duties of life, or as the means of elevating us in 

 the scale of society. 



While the pursuit of these studies is pleasura- 

 ble and instructive, their certain tendency is to 

 develope and expand our intellectual faculties 

 to aid the cause of virtue and to encrease our 

 stock of happiness. As applicable to this sub- 

 ject, the eloquent and well known eulogy, pro- 

 nounced by the Roman orator, comes so forcibly 

 to my recollection, that I cannot refrain from 

 borrowing his sublime language in conclusion of 

 my address: " Haec studia adolescentiam alunt, 

 " senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, 

 " adversis perfugium ac solatium prsebent, de- 

 '-' lectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant 

 V nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur." 



