LECTURE I. S 



character : — I cannot readily tell you how 

 splendid and brilliant he made it appear ; — 

 and then, he cautioned us never to tarnish 

 its lustre by any disingenuous conduct, 

 by any thing that wore even the semblance 

 of dishonour. He caused the sentiment 

 of the philanthropic Chremes, in the 

 Heautontimorumenos of Terence, to be 

 inscribed on the walls of the hospital-sur- 

 gery, that students should have constantly 

 before them an admonition to humanity, 

 drawn from a reflection on their own wants : 

 Homo sum ; humani nihil a me alienum 

 puto. 



I could with pleasure enlarge on this 

 theme, but I check myself, because I am 

 aware that what I am now saying may 

 rather annoy than gratify the feelings of 

 my preceptor. What I have stated, how- 

 ever, is a tribute due from me to him ; 

 and I pay it on the present occasion, in 

 hopes that the same precepts and motives 

 may have the same effect on the minds of 

 the junior part of my audience, as they 



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