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TO
WORKING MEN,
AND ESPECIALLY то THE
WORKING MEN OF BRIGHTON,
THIS VOLUME,
CONTAINING SO MANY OF THEIR FRIEND'S UTTERANCES
IN THEIR BEHALF,
IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED.
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE
Two ADDRESSES:-
An Address delivered at the Opening of the Working
Men's Institute, on Monday, October 23, 1848.....
Preface to Second Address.
An Address delivered to the Members of the Working
Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on
Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the Question of the
Introduction of Skeptical Publications into their
Library....
Two LECTURES ON THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON
THE WORKING CLASSES:-
Delivered before the Members of the Mechanics' Insti-
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tution, February, 1852.
LECTURE I
LECTURE II
LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH:-
Delivered to the Members of the Brighton Athenæum,
February 10, 1853...
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NOTES OF A LECTURE, SPEECHES, &c.-
Notes of a Lecture delivered at Hurstper-point, in 1851,
to the Members of a Working Man's Reading Room 269
A Speech delivered at the Town Hall, Brighton, April
24, 1849, at a Meeting of the Inhabitants, called by
the Early Closing Association, presided over by the
Bishop of Chichester.
A Speech delivered at a Meeting of the Brighton Dis-
trict Association for Improving the Dwellings of the
Industrious Classes, held at the Pavilion, Brighton,
November 25, 1852..
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20, 1852, in reply to an Address presented to him by
One Hundred Young Men of his Congregation.... 308
A Speech delivered at the Town Hall, Brighton, No-
vember 14, 1850, at a Meeting held for the Purpose
of Addressing the Queen in reference to the Attempt
of the Pope of Rome to parcel England out into Ec-
clesiastical Dioceses under Cardinal Wiseman..
....
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