Address to the members of the Hunterian Medical Society, delivered on Wednesday, November 16, 1831 / [Nathaniel Rogers].

  • Rogers, Nathaniel, -1882?
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1831
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    advantage as possible, they must not only be right, but rightly conducted. And, in the first place, it must be evident, that the greater the number of speakers, the more efficiently will the advantages of which I have spoken, be secured ; and I would, therefore, respectfully intreat that more speakers will come forward. It is true, that during the last Session we were seldom at a loss; but it is equally true, that the oratory was confined within too limit¬ ed a circle. The speakers on a given subject, were often known as regularly beforehand, as the subject itself. And as little can it be denied, that with all their exertions, an awful pause, both as to length and stillness, did sometimes ensue ; and was only in¬ terrupted by some indefatigable adherent, alarmed at the continuance of the portentous silence. More than once, Gentlemen, have I been induced unwill¬ ingly to obtrude myself on your notice, lest the flagging discussion should become totally extinct; and I assure you, that the most inveterate talker of us all, would often gladly give way to some new aspirant. In these discussions, Gentlemen, to quote the lan¬ guage of our distinguished Professor of Divinity,— the ornament, not merely of our University, but of our country, and our age,—in his language I would observe,—“ It is a mistake to suppose there is no-
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