all their subsidiary branches of literature and science, and by promoting a taste for all the arts of elegance and beauty, will contribute to individual happiness and public prosperity. Having delivered what I propose as an introduction to a course of lectures to the senior class of this college, I now come to a close lest I should trespass upon the patience of my audience.

APPENDIX.

The REV. ASA MESSER, D. D., LL. D., late President of Brown University, published several occasional Sermons, Orations, and Addresses, which are full of that sound, practical wisdom for which he was so eminently distinguished. The Editor believes he shall gratify Dr. Messer's numerous pupils and friends, as well as the reading public generally, by adding the following Addresses which are a fair specimen of the other productions of his powerful pen. His conceptions strong, distinct and animated, are expressed in a style terse, simple, and vigorous.