A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.

  • Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.
Date:
1810
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Credit: A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    season with a comparison of the merits and deme- rits of the houses of Tudor and Plantagenet ; and the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the country from the government of the respective princes of either dynasty. « Atthe discussion of these questions, I have regularly presided, to point out. the sources of in- formation, to interrogate the speakers as to the authorities for disputed facts, to rectify their mis- takes, assist them in appreciating the value of his- torical evidence, and: religiously to enforce the observance, even in the ardour of: debate, of the undeviating language of decorum and. urbanity : and, as care has been taken that the library of my institution should never be unfurnished with any books that it could be necessary to refer to, for the illustration of the subject in debate; and as every immediate pupil, at least, has been obliged to. take his share in every discussion, tho all. may not have been formed into orators (a consummation nel- ther practicable nor desirable) no member of the society could well avoid making some progress in the attainment of historical knowledge, and in the habit of confident and fluent utterance. «Kor the minuteness with which we have traced,