The inaugural oration, spoken on the 4th day of November 1815, at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the London Institution for the Diffusion of Science and Literature / By Charles Butler.

  • Butler, Charles, 1750-1832.
Date:
1816
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Credit: The inaugural oration, spoken on the 4th day of November 1815, at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the London Institution for the Diffusion of Science and Literature / By Charles Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. T T was the wish of the person, who spoke the Oration, at The Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the London Institu¬ tion, FOR THE DIFFUSION OF SCIENCE AND Literature, to prefix to this publication of it, a succinct Historical Account of Commerce, from the Macedonian Conquest to the present time; and to shew the constant exchange of services, between Commerce and Literature, during this period. The present accomplish¬ ment of this design, being incompatible with his professional duties, he begs leave to supply it, in a very limited degree, by the following Extracts, principally taken, from his Work entitled, “ A Succinct History of the Geographi¬ cal and Political Revolutions of the Empire “ °f Germany, or the Principal States, which “ composed the Empire of Charlemagne, from “ his Coronation in 800, to its Dissolution in “ 18o6> Wlth eome account of the Genealogies of - the Imperial House of Haps burgh, and of the ' “ Six