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Excerpt from Inaugural Lecture Read Before the University of Oxford: In the Divinity School on Thursday, March 17th, 1836
Had I then rested the question of under taking the office simply on the answer which I could give to the inquiry, Who is sufh cient for these things, I should not have had the presumption to present myself before you, as, on this day, commencing the arduous duties of the office by an inaugural address to the members at large of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.