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... hope that every portion of the Lecture should be equally approved by every hearer or every reader , would be as chimerical as to expect that every member of the numerous auditory before whom it was delivered should be of like mind or ...
... hope that every portion of the Lecture should be equally approved by every hearer or every reader , would be as chimerical as to expect that every member of the numerous auditory before whom it was delivered should be of like mind or ...
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... hope , with favourable dispositions at least , I ask only the patient hearing which he , who pleads for the first time the cause of a new Institution , may reasonably expect to receive at their hands . Amidst the crowded and brilliant ...
... hope , with favourable dispositions at least , I ask only the patient hearing which he , who pleads for the first time the cause of a new Institution , may reasonably expect to receive at their hands . Amidst the crowded and brilliant ...
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... hope all for the future ; —and induce us , also , to labour for its accomplishment with the greater zeal , from the assurance which the past gives us of ultimate and com plete success in all great and good enterprises . Turning ...
... hope all for the future ; —and induce us , also , to labour for its accomplishment with the greater zeal , from the assurance which the past gives us of ultimate and com plete success in all great and good enterprises . Turning ...
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... Hope to India : thus opening the two great regions of America and Asia , with their boundless wealth , to the enterprise and superior skill of Europe . And lastly , the effects of all these grand events , which in themselves became ...
... Hope to India : thus opening the two great regions of America and Asia , with their boundless wealth , to the enterprise and superior skill of Europe . And lastly , the effects of all these grand events , which in themselves became ...
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... hope , to be firmly established , we shall endeavour to avoid these errors ; and while discarding the superfluities of existing Clubs , we shall aim at supplying that class of pleasures , in which , as it appears to me at least , they ...
... hope , to be firmly established , we shall endeavour to avoid these errors ; and while discarding the superfluities of existing Clubs , we shall aim at supplying that class of pleasures , in which , as it appears to me at least , they ...
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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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