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and deep anxiety ; for England saw nation after nation falling 

 before the sword of the first Napoleon ; till at length she stood 

 alone, with all the great powers of Europe combined against 

 her. But a brighter season followed. Europe regained its 

 freedom from military domination ; and England, with her in- 

 stitutions safe and her soil inviolate, seemed to stand on a pin- 

 nacle of glory. Again and again have I seen those good, stout- 

 hearted men who, under God, had helped to work out the 

 deliverance of Europe from military servitude, greeted in the 

 Senate House with our loudest acclamations. I have been 

 present at four installation festivals, when we met to do honor 

 to the good men whom by our votes we had placed at the head 

 of the University. All these were occasions of honest and great 

 excitement. The last of them was graced and honored by the 

 presence of our sovereign. To her was due the first homage of 

 the University, and it was given by us not grudgingly, but 

 with a loyalty that carried us almost beyond ourselves, and 

 drew from us the most fervent gratulations that affectionate and 

 grateful subjects are permitted to exhibit in the presence of their 

 sovereign. Nor did we, during that season of loyalty, forget 

 our youthful chancellor, or abate one jot of the honor due him. 

 We greeted him as one placed by our free choice in the highest 

 office of the University ; as the consort of our queen ; as the 

 father of the future sovereign of England ; and as a man well 

 trained in academic learning, to whose wisdom we might look 

 for counsel in any times of difficulty, and to whose eloquence 

 and influence we might look for protection in an hour of danger. 

 All of these were grand occasions ; but on none of them," con- 

 tinues the enthusiastic professor, " were the gratulations of the 

 University more honest and true-hearted than those offered to 

 Dr. Livingstone. He stood before them a plain, single-minded, 

 cheerful man, and addressed that learned assembly in unadorned 

 and simple words; telling them simple facts, which, although 

 some present had read his book, had all the power of freshness 

 still. There was nothing of self-glorying. More than once 

 he exclaimed in the midst of his addresses, 'I have made no 

 sacrifice; I have only done my duty.' Providence had guided 

 him ; he had only obeyed impulses which he could not have 



