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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    “ Six Secular Electors of Germany; and of Ro~ u man, German, French and English Nobility —i Vol. 8vo. These Extracts may be found to give a Short View of the Commercial Intercourse between Europe and Asia, from the death of Alexander the Great, till the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II: 2dly, Of the Commercial History of Venice; ^dly, Genoa; 4thly, The Lombards; 5thly, Florence; 6thly, The Hanse-Towns; and ythly, The Netherlands. I. The greatest Commercial project, ever plan¬ ned, was the design of Alexander the Great, to effect a regular mercantile Intercourse between the eastern and western divisions of the then known parts of the world, and to fix its northern emporium near the confluence of the Jurnna and the Ganges, and its southern, at Alexandria, After the death of that monarch, Seleucus made himself master of the Persian Empire, and Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, secured Egypt. Under each, the commerce with the east was so successfully pursued, that, even with China, a considerable trade was carried on, both by land and sea. The principal article of it was Silk. On