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Excerpt from An Inaugural Address: Delivered in the Theatre of the Islington Literary and Scientific Society, on the Opening of the New Building, Thursday, Nov 16, 1837 Allow me, then, in the first place, to congratu late you upon the successful result of those united efforts which have at length seated the Literary and Scientific Society of Islington under their own roof-tree. It is not, simply, that we have a build ing we can call our own that entitles us to indulge in something of a triumphant feeling; but the fact gives such ew'dence of our growing prosperity of the increasing value attached to the principles we have in view - it holds out such prospects of more extended usefulness to ourselves and cm children, if not to remoter times - it promises, we may perhaps add, so much of public advantage, that some exultation on such an occasion as the present is natural, and may be allowed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.