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well as wise and skilful men ; and we, who are but 

 shadows ourselves, may follow the beautiful shadows 

 that have flitted before us this evening to their 

 happier abode, the picB et discretce sedes heatorum — 



Inter odoratum lauri nemus : unde superne 

 Plurimus Eridani per sylvam volvitur amnis ; 



where dwell 



Quique sacerdotes casti dum vita manebat; 

 Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti; 

 Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes; 

 Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. 



Next to the cultivation of the devout and virtuous 

 affections is the cultivation of the intellectual faculty ; 

 and that these men were in the main good as well as 

 great is one proof amongst many that knowledge is 

 favourable to virtue. Nor can I, while this is the 

 case, persuade myself that I have departed from the 

 prosecution of the great objects which I am bound to 

 keep in view, by having lent my assistance in carrying 

 on a design which aims at the intellectual advance- 

 ment of our people. 



In offering this tribute to the literary character of 

 Bath, I have not been swayed by any of the partiality 

 which is supposed to affect those who speak of the 

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