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Africa, and from North and South 
America. He publicly expressed the 
satisfaction these acquisitions afforded 
him, in his address to the university, 
on the anniversary of the king’s birth¬ 
day, 1752. “I thank Providence,”he 
said, “ who has guided my destinies, 
that I now live; nay, that I live hap¬ 
pier than a king of Persia. You know, 
fathers and fellow-citizens, that I am 
wholly occupied with this academical 
garden; that it is my Rhodqs, or rather 
my Elysium. There I possess all the 
spoils of the east and the west which I 
wished for; and which, in my belief, 
are far more precious than the silken 
garments of the Babylonians, and the 
porcelain vases of the Chinese. There 1 
receive and convey instruction. There 
I admire the wisdom of the Creator, 
which manifests itself in so many various 
modes, and demonstrate it to others.” 
He commemorated his gratitude to 
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