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FRANCIS LIEBER,
C. ]on'::'llDER OF TUE ISSIITUTE OF FRAXCE, .o\.VTliOR OF" CIVIL UBERTY
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PHILADELPHIA:
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YEAR 1847.
YOUNG GENTLEMEN:
The very word by which I have the pleasure
of addressing you will form the subject of the
address, which, in the spirit of great kind
ness, you have called upon me, unknown to
you as I am, to delh·er on this festive day.
I tender you my cordial thanks for this proof
of your regard; but, in doing so, I must remind
you that I find difficulties of no common cha
racter surrounding me at this moment. My
foot treads for the first time the soil of your
Rylvan State; I am unacquainted with what
may be peculiar to your society, or character
istic of your institution. I thus may stand
* Originl111y an Address delivered to the students of
!lliumi University. Ohio, on Commencemenl Eve 184G.
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10 CHARACTER OF THE GENTLEMAN.
Jhesus was borne, very God nnd mnn; after his mnnboode
kynge of the land of Jude nnd of Jiles, gentillllnn by his
modre Mary, prince of cote nrmure."
18 CilARACTER OF TilE GE~TLE~IAN.
* De Officiis, xiii.
106 CIIARACTER OF TIlE GENTLE~lAN.
THE END.
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