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AJ.781.017
1 Aug 1781:11,12 (149)
Philadelphia, July 11. On Wednesday last, the Anniversary
of our glorious revolution, the commencement for degrees in
the arts was held at the Hall of the University . . . An
excellent band of music striking up, as the Hon. Congress
entered the hall, and playing until His Excellency the
President and the Hon. Board of Trustees and Faculty of the
University were seated, ushered in the Exercises of the day,
and by interludes, between the several performances of the
young gentlemen, heightened the pleasure of the
entertainment.
Order of the Exercises . . . 4th. An oration in praise of
ignorance by William Clarkson. The genuine humour and attic
salt of this performance gave universal and high
satisfaction, and produced general applause. It concluded
with the following lines:
Since then all knowledge is at best but vain,
Since it not lessens but increases pain.
It is most evident, we may conclude,
That in sheer ignorance consists all good;
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column]
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