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 THE HUNTERIAN ORATION, 41

we will hope, in the orations of future years; and it is a well measured estimate of the prospective influence of Hunter’s labours to anticipate, that through the course of time, his reputation will in every age expand, as the fame of our Shakspeare, represented by the poet of Germany, augmenting, from age to age, like the Avalanche from the mountain, increasing in bulk as it rolls.

We boast of the Science of Hunter, “ yet that which is above all this”—his Perfect Integrity of Mind,

“ incorrupta fide vir, ob id, Fama celebratior.”*

Tacitus.

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