Proceedings of the ..annual meeting, held .., with the Report of the Council then read, together with the audited account, ..[serial] . evident that the promoters of theundertaking- are influenced, not by any sinisterand unavowed motives, but by a sincere desire topromote the intellectual and moral improvementof Youth, without admitting anything that canbe prejudicial in the most important interests jsince within the walls of the College it is regu-lated that instruction shall be given in Religionand Biblical Literature, and in the genuinedoctrines of the Established Church, to Studentsof that


Proceedings of the ..annual meeting, held .., with the Report of the Council then read, together with the audited account, ..[serial] . evident that the promoters of theundertaking- are influenced, not by any sinisterand unavowed motives, but by a sincere desire topromote the intellectual and moral improvementof Youth, without admitting anything that canbe prejudicial in the most important interests jsince within the walls of the College it is regu-lated that instruction shall be given in Religionand Biblical Literature, and in the genuinedoctrines of the Established Church, to Studentsof that communion, through the aid of aClergyman who shall be found highly qualifiedfor that undertaking, the Council cannot but en-tertain the hope, that those gentlemen who with-drew under a scrupulous feeling of duty and pro-priety will now be induced by an equal regard toprinciple and obligation no longer to delay ratify-ing their engagements, and, what is most desired,lending their valuable co-operation in endeavourswhich have no other object than to promote thebest culture of the human mind. S. S. WAYTE, Hon. Sec. ?—^ CO o «. BiO ^^ ^ ?5 ^ «« 5: 6 3 -* 05 01 ^ O (O 01 CJ uat > 2 o :S ?T3 -3 H KQ ADDRESS ON THE (i^ptnntjj of tl)c Biifitol Colltflr, The 17th January, 1831,By A. CARRICK, , Chairman. Gentlemen of tbe Council—You are met together, this day, on anauspicious and memorable occasion, the inauguration of the BristolCollege, of which you are the guardians and founders. This day,gentlemen, will be held in grateful remembrance by distant generations :for institutions like this, which have public utility alone for their object,are destined to defy the waste of time, and to survive the convulsions ofempires. The learned and the good of centuries to come will refer tothe act of this day with a thankful recollection of the benefits you willhave bestowed on them, and on their children ; for of all the benefitswhich can be conferred on posterity, education is the gre


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