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The Importance of Literature to Men of Business; A Series of Addresses Delivered at Various Popular Institutions - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1852 Excerpt: ... ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW ATHENAEUM, On The 11th Nov., 1851, BY HENKY GLASSFORD BELL, ESQ. Gentlemen,--My first duty on the present occasion is to embrace the opportunity it affords me of acknowledging very gratefully the honour you have conferred upon me in electing me President of this Institution. I could receive few honorary distinctions which I would more highly prize. I succeed men of great intellectual eminence and moral worth, who have already filled this chair; and, though personally unacquainted with a large majority of the members of the Athenaeum, they have, unsolicited, and, as I learn, unanimously, bestowed upon me this mark of their confidence and respect. Gentlemen, I am proud of such a compliment. There is not, in this my native town, nor in any town in which similar institutions exist, a more intelligent body of men than that of which this prosperous association is composed; and no one need blush to confess that it must be to him a source of great and honourable satisfaction to stand so fair in the opinion of its numerous members as to receive from them the highest appointment in their gift. I would that I could approve myself more worthy of your choice. I feel at all events that it affords me an additional motive for exertion, and renders still more fervid the anxiety I have always entertained to discharge, as faithfully as I can, the duties, public and private, which Providence has allotted to me. Once more let me tender you my thanks before proceeding to address you on less personal themes. The sight which I see before me to-night is one which, to every intelligent mind, should be full of interest. I see assembled in one of the most beautiful halls of this great city an ardent and enlightened audience, belonging to...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217953549
- ISBN 13 9780217953542
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages100
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