The Idea of a University

Hospes eram, et collegistis Me. IN GRATEFUL NEVER-DYING REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MANY FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS, LIVING AND DEAD, AT HOME AND…

The view taken of a University in these Discourses is the following:—That it is a place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that…

In addressing myself, Gentlemen, to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest, and elicited so much discussion at…

There were two questions, to which I drew your attention, Gentlemen, in the beginning of my first Discourse, as being of especial…

When men of great intellect, who have long and intently and exclusively given themselves to the study or investigation of some one…

Nothing is more common in the world at large than to consider the resistance, made on the part of religious men, especially Catholics, to…

A University may be considered with reference either to its Students or to its Studies; and the principle, that all Knowledge is a whole…

It were well if the English, like the Greek language, possessed some definite word to express, simply and generally, intellectual…

I have been insisting, in my two preceding Discourses, first, on the cultivation of the intellect, as an end which may reasonably be…

We shall be brought, Gentlemen, to-day, to the termination of the investigation which I commenced three Discourses back, and which, I was…

I have to congratulate myself, Gentlemen, that at length I have accomplished, with whatever success, the difficult and anxious undertaking…

To The Right Honourable WILLIAM MONSELL, M.P., ETC., ETC.

It has been the fortune of the author through life, that the Volumes which he has published have grown for the most part out of the duties…

It seems but natural, Gentlemen, now that we are opening the School of Philosophy and Letters, or, as it was formerly called, of Arts, in…

Wishing to address you, Gentlemen, at the commencement of a new Session, I tried to find a subject for discussion, which might be at once…

One of the special objects which a Catholic University would promote is that of the formation of a Catholic Literature in the English…

It has often been observed that, when the eyes of the infant first open upon the world, the reflected rays of light which strike them from…

Though it cannot be denied that at the present day, in consequence of the close juxtaposition and intercourse of men of all religions,…

When I obtained from various distinguished persons the acceptable promise that they would give me the advantage of their countenance and…

Now that we have just commenced our second Academical Year, it is natural, Gentlemen, that, as in November last, when we were entering upon…

This is a time, Gentlemen, when not only the Classics, but much more the Sciences, in the largest sense of the word, are looked upon with…

When I found that it was in my power to be present here at the commencement of the new Session, one of the first thoughts, Gentlemen, which…

I have had so few opportunities, Gentlemen, of addressing you, and our present meeting is of so interesting and pleasing a character, by…