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... ROOM S. THE RIGHT HON . THE EARL OF DEVON IN THE CHAIR . LONDON : FISHER , SON , & CO . , 38 , NEWGATE STREET ; AND RUE ST . HONORÉ , PARIS . 08 ODLE BIBL LOW PREFACE . THE following Lecture was INAUGURAL LECTURE, ...
... ROOM S. THE RIGHT HON . THE EARL OF DEVON IN THE CHAIR . LONDON : FISHER , SON , & CO . , 38 , NEWGATE STREET ; AND RUE ST . HONORÉ , PARIS . 08 ODLE BIBL LOW PREFACE . THE following Lecture was INAUGURAL LECTURE, ...
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... Rooms , for the purpose of explaining more fully the grounds on which this new Literary Association was formed , and the advantages it would present to those who should honour it with their adhesion . It was intended at first to have ...
... Rooms , for the purpose of explaining more fully the grounds on which this new Literary Association was formed , and the advantages it would present to those who should honour it with their adhesion . It was intended at first to have ...
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... Rooms , Mechanics ' Institutions , Temperance Societies , and Rural Excursions , all innocent and excellent in their kind , and all working together for the physical , mental , and moral improve- ment of our race . Among the higher ...
... Rooms , Mechanics ' Institutions , Temperance Societies , and Rural Excursions , all innocent and excellent in their kind , and all working together for the physical , mental , and moral improve- ment of our race . Among the higher ...
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... their tendency to encourage luxurious indolence and purely sensual and selfish enjoy- ments . To the younger members , the habit of dining frequently in a banqueting - room befitting a palace , BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE . 27.
... their tendency to encourage luxurious indolence and purely sensual and selfish enjoy- ments . To the younger members , the habit of dining frequently in a banqueting - room befitting a palace , BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE . 27.
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... room , there is no more communion between them , than if the one had taken his meal at St. Petersburgh , and the other at Constantinople . Notwithstanding these three great defects - exclusive- ness , luxuriousness , and ...
... room , there is no more communion between them , than if the one had taken his meal at St. Petersburgh , and the other at Constantinople . Notwithstanding these three great defects - exclusive- ness , luxuriousness , and ...
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accomplished admission advantages agreeable approved autres Bart beautiful Bishop of Durham Board of Direction BRITISH AND FOREIGN British Museum Bryanstone Square Buckingham Charles classes Colonies Committee communion Conversazioni cultivation David delight desire diffusion duties Earl of Devon End of London enjoy enjoyment Enrolment Entrance Fee established existing Clubs feel FOREIGN INSTITUTE Francis Mowatt friends Gentleman and Lady Gentlemen George globe greater number Guineas per annum Hanover Square Rooms Henry honour improve increasing number Ingatestone intellectual intercourse interest Isabella JAMES STUART John kindred minds Lectures limited number Literature Lord Brougham Lord Francis Egerton Lord James Stuart MACKINNON Meeting Metropolis names nation Nature number of persons object Original Members parties PENDARVES pleasure present President proposed Prospectus purpose pursuits RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Royal secure SEPTIMUS RAMSEY society Soirées Sympathy taste Thomas Wyse thought tion Travellers Trustees undertaking visitors WILLIAM TITE women
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