16. A PmuiLosoPHiCAL.DriscoumsE. 
tions ; and your aim has been crowned with the moft happy and 
-extenfive fucce(s. This has infured to you, at. leat in this - 
country, univerfal approbation ; and your names will be remem- 
bered with honour, fo long as literature íhall be efteemed;: or 
any veítige of it remain here. 
Though wrapt in.the fhroud. of death. be. your: mortal part, 
ye.ftill live, and through fucceflive generations may ye continue: 
- to live, in the grateful breafts of your lettered fons.—Con(ecrated - 
to fame, and born on its ftrongeft- pinions; may. your: memory © 
reach to the remoteít.ages, expanding. as itiflies. Andy when 
ages ceafe to roll—when all things fhall be ingulphed in. vaft 
eternity—when eternity, itfelf (hall be abforpt in the: felf-exift- 
ence of the Derry, may ye be bleffed, as we humbly. truft ye 
now are, fupremely bleffed, with the approbation of utm, who: 
gave you the means, and. the will to.do-goods Jn fine; may - 
your virtues, and excellent example, by infpiring imitation, pro. 
cure fach benefactions to Harvard-College, as. to make it, in 
the moft proper and extenfive fene, an Univerfty.. Mesi 
With refpe& to its furviving benefactors, I fhall ttot~attempt 
to name or characterize them, as the doing it might offend their 
delicacy, or favour of adulation ; they will however have. the 
pleafing fatisfa&tion to reflect, that. the eulogium on the fimilar 
virtues of others,is an eulogium on their own : and a coníciouf- 
nefs of merit will compel them, without hazarding the charge - 
of a vain-glorious appropriation, to apply it to themfelves, 
To have faid thus much on the fubje&. of the.college; will 
not, on this occafion, be deemed impertinent, as the inftituting - 
of it was, not meerly confiftent with the forming fuch a fociety 
as ours, but neceflary. to precede it ; and as the old iaftitution — 
` : may 
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