kK. te. ae es See 
honor and Witaic Ui vue cou try i is s drawing 1 wu its 
on our ome eaens among whom T T dig to behold so 
“hopes, that this care must devolve. ~ They, evel 
pa must prepare to act their parts with honor to them- 
selves. May the youth who hear me never remain satisfied with a 
barren” ‘admiration’ of those who have gone before them, ‘but 
ose who feel within them some sparks of the sacred fire labor faith- 
fully to restore it tous. -May they remember that the literary and 
scientific lustre of Geneva has been one of the principal points in 
the ‘interests: of Europe, and consequently of our independence. 
~ Young men, you have enjoyed in the improved state of our in- 
stitutions, 4immense facilities for your education. May they be fruit- 
your hands! your predecessors have had but one sad advantage 
Oe pee, that of having labored in times of trouble, which com- 
pelled them, perhaps, to draw upon themselves for all that their 
strength was able to afford them. Fatal advantage which | am far 
from wishing you to enjoy, and the return of which must be depre= 
eated by every friend of his country. But suffer not yourselves to 
be enervated d by: ae happy ‘condition 5 lohan s - presopes: th hess ound 
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16 — Learn to resist: the sedustions with ‘hich 
and domestic habits fritter into rags the time of the: most 
active; learn that there can be no possible success without great la- 
bor and a most willing patience; learn to withdraw from the sedue- 
tive -allurements of a life of pleasure, visit foreign countries, not 
passing through them in a hasty manner, but by studying their civil 
polity, bring: back to us every thing that is really useful; bring back 
also hearts more truly Genevese, by a more oslichemnds sense of the 
liberty and happiness we enjoy. Do your best to preserve to us now 
and forever, that sage liberty, the friend of order, of justice, and 
of peace, which we now enjoy, and without which all improvements 
become hazardous and problematical. Young people, the country 
has its eyes upon you and you will not disappoint its expectations.— 
Bib. Univ. — 1832. 
— CHEMISTRY: 
1. Combinati of-ca buretted h ydrogen Note by M. ioaom 
—I published, some. senes since, a work on Ethers conjointly with M 
Boullay, the principal object of which was to show that bi-carbonate 
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