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evidence of revelation, by confirming the Mosaic ac- 

 count of the primitive world. We all recollect, and 

 can refer to the following sentiments in his Eighth 

 Anniversary Discourse. 



" Theological inquiries are no part of mypre- 

 " sent subject;' but I Cannot refrain from adding, 

 " that the collection of tracts, which we call from 

 <c their excellence the Scriptures, contain, independ- 

 ently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, 

 more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more im- 

 portant history, and finer strains both of poetry and 

 <c eloquence, than could be collected within the same 

 " compass from all other books that were ever com- 

 posed in any age, or in any idiom. The two 

 parts, of which the scriptures consist, are connected 

 by a chain of compositions, which bear no resem- 

 blance in form or style to any that can be produced 

 " from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even 

 " Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compo- 

 " sitions no man doubts, and the unrestrained appli- 

 u cation of them to events long subsequent to their 

 " publication, is a solid ground of belief that they 

 w were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired." 

 There were, in truth, few sciences in which he 

 had not acquired considerable proficiency ; in most 

 his knowledge was profound. The theory of music 

 was familiar to him, nor had he neglected to make 

 himself acquainted with the interesting discoveries 

 lately made in Chemistry; and I have heard him 

 assert, that his admiration of the structure of the hu- 

 man frame, had induced him to attend for a season 

 to a course of anatomical lectures, delivered by his 

 friend the celebrated Hunter. 



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