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 . y which may be formed; these are theprinciples which you and I should alike desire to carryinto effect; and on these principles, we trust, with theblessing of God on our exertions, to transmit to ourposterity the rich inheritance of the institutions whichwe have received from our forefathers, amended if youwill, purified and perfected if we may, but uninjured intheir essence, and unimpaired in their majestic integrity. I have trespa
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 . y which may be formed; these are theprinciples which you and I should alike desire to carryinto effect; and on these principles, we trust, with theblessing of God on our exertions, to transmit to ourposterity the rich inheritance of the institutions whichwe have received from our forefathers, amended if youwill, purified and perfected if we may, but uninjured intheir essence, and unimpaired in their majestic integrity. I have trespassed perhaps too long on your time andyour patience. I have now only again to return youmy grateful thanks for the high honour which you haveconferred upon me, and to assure you, that while I feel itto be one of my first duties to maintain the privilegesand promote the interests of the University, I hold it tobe no less incumbent upon me so to regulate my publicconduct, that those who may succeed to me, may not pointto my name, as that of one who has reflected discredit onthose who went before him, or upon the body by whomhe had been so highly honoured. 122. INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1837. Principal Macfarlan and Gentlemen,— I gladly avail myself of this opportunityof personally and publicly expressing the gratificationwhich I derive from my appointment to the office on theduties of which I have just entered. I might have hesi-tated voluntarily to present myself as a candidate for thatoffice, not from unbecoming indifference to the distinctionwhich it confers, but partly from disinclination to interferewith the pretensions of others, and partly from reluctanceto add to the pressure of those duties, which in public andprivate life I am called upon to perform. But when Ireceived the unexpected intelligence that my election hadactually taken place—had taken place under circumstanceswhich had spared me the painfulness of vo
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