general cultivation, must it find a resting-place in the seats of learning. It is like the Nile, which, having made the adjacent fields fruitful, flows back to its original channel. But there it should run untroubled, a royal stream, whose veins are never dry, and whose fountains are on the highest eminences. STUDY OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. I Now appear before you, to commence the honorable course to which I have been invited by our gracious sovereign, and his enlightened government. I am to be connected with an institution, which, under the charge of estimable teachers, in the centre of the kingdom, and at the foot of the throne, has drawn together a company of youth, the hope of the country, eager for knowledge, and susceptible to every good influence. I am thus cheered by the happiest anticipations, and encircled with hopes which might encourage the most dejected heart. If the sight of inanimate nature, in its blossoming freshness, can enliven and soothe the mind that is but little cultivated, how much more must the spectacle of man's activity gladden us, where the deepest impulses of nature are awakened, where the fairest flowers of the soul are unfolding, and where generous and buoyant spirits are cultivating the field of human improvement. And how can the heart be exalted with fresher hopes, than when encircled by a company of youth, who, from their own honorable feelings, devote themselves to learning, seek their appropriate culture in knowledge, and collect treasures which are fitted to promote the prosperity of their native land. Here, at the altar of science and of |