Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… of wit than half mankind / Too rash for thought, for action too refin’d […] He dies, sad out-cast of each church and state / And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great’. 1 1 . Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: In Four Epistles (Glasgow: … and who met at the house of Viscount Hillsborough, himself a likely member of the Wharton Club. At Hillsborough’s estate, the Schemers concerned themselves with ‘the advancement of that branch of Happyness which the vulgar call …
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