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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ges, daily becoming more important in the business of life,—the French and German. I find that there is a class for drawing, a chemical class, subdivi... ...ning and evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; ... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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