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AND TO WHICH THAT SOCIETY AWARDED ITS PREMIUM OF FIFTY POUNDS
IN DECEMBER, 1821.

BY

H. V. TEBBS,

PROCTOR IN DOCTORS' COMMONS.

"Quid trista querimonia

Si non supplicio culpa reciditur?

Quid leges sine moribus

Vanæ proficiunt ?"

HOR. CARM. lib. iii. 24. v. 33.

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