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dark purple in summer-heat, tarnished gold in the 

 autumn haze : and higher still, just distinguishable on 

 the paler sky, the crest of some distant peak, carrying 

 the imagination away into the illimitable world. Resid- 

 ence in Edinburgh is an education in itself. Its beauty 

 refines one like being in love. It is perennial like a play 

 of Shakespeare." (Prolonged applause.) 



