Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812) [ People ]
… the institutions he had subscribed to. Mr. Goadby's shop at the Royal Exchange was, for many years, of an evening, the meeting-place of a select party of men of superior abilities, for the purpose of conversation, -Mr. John Payne, Jate … with many more sensible men, that improved and enlarged their_mental powers by the communication of ideas. Those meetings had a very different effect upon the members of this friendly circle, to that produced by convivial meetings, where wine and riot preclude sentiment, and destroy reason. The late Dr. Towers was, atthe period of these …
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