A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce : instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers of the first promoters of the plan; and from other authentic records. By Mr. Mortimer.

  • Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.
Date:
1764
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Credit: A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce : instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers of the first promoters of the plan; and from other authentic records. By Mr. Mortimer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( &7 ) ber is of every committee, though particu¬ lar gentlemen are nominated to each com¬ mittee. Thefe are the principal regulations that have not been already noticed in the courfe of this narrative, which I cannot more aptly conclude than with a fincere and fervent prayer “ that this moft free and independ- 16 ant Society, inftituted for the Public <c good, may long continue to do honor “ to its patrons, and that its prefent moft “ excellent plan with all pofllble improve- <€ ments may be handed down to pofterity, “ and by them be facredly revered, and “ firmly upheld with the reft of thofe “ ineftimable privileges, which have ren- “ dered us fuperior to all the nations of the <c earth.” FINIS.