Inaugural addresses by Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow : to which are prefixed an historical sketch and account of the present state of the University . -^mT--™7— ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY LORDS RECTORS UNIVERSITY OF INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.,1 ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1820. Mr. Principal, Professors, and Students,— It will easily be understood that this is tome a moment of great pride and gratification: but I feelthat it is also a moment of no little emotion and distur-bance ; and on an occasion where Burke2 is reported tohave faltered, and Adam S
Inaugural addresses by Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow : to which are prefixed an historical sketch and account of the present state of the University . -^mT--™7— ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY LORDS RECTORS UNIVERSITY OF INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.,1 ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1820. Mr. Principal, Professors, and Students,— It will easily be understood that this is tome a moment of great pride and gratification: but I feelthat it is also a moment of no little emotion and distur-bance ; and on an occasion where Burke2 is reported tohave faltered, and Adam Smith3 to have remained silent,it may probably be thought that I should have best con-sulted both my fame and my comfort, if I had followedthe latter example. It is impossible, however, not to feel,that in the case of that eminent person, and of manyothers who have since conducted themselves in the samemanner, the honour they conferred on the Universitynearly compensated that which they had received from it:—and they might not, therefore, feel any very strong callto express their sense of an obligation which was almostrepaid by its acceptance. On the present occasion, no one 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESS can feel more intimately—no
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