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Inftitution. But I check myfelf, hoping to 
hear, from Gentlemen more converfant with 
manufactures, their fenfe of this, it may be, 
vifionary fcheme. 
Objections will, perhaps, have already arifen, 
which may appear ftrong: I hope not unanfwer- 
able. That of the expence , 1 cannot allow to be of 
this number. Nor the difficulty of finding a pro¬ 
per perjon, to fuperintend the Inftitution. Nor the 
regulations , neceffary to its internal management 
and conduCt. If no objections, ftronger than 
thele, be found againfl: it, I fhall not deem it 
altogether Utopian. 
Something fimilar to this has been done, by 
the society of arts. But the two plans are effen- 
tially different. They give premiums: but they 
have no lectures, or modes of InftruCtion. 
Our plan would be defirable, in every large 
town , and particularly, in the center of every 
imoortant manufacture. 
L 
Whilft I was engaged in thinking upon this 
plan, and, like the Artift, enamoured with its 
imaginary beauty, I met with the following 
paffage in Sully’s Memoirs. My feelings, in 
reading it, I will not attempt to defcribe. 
He tells us, that, among the great defigns of 
Henry IV. which were prevented from being 
carried into execution, by the untimely and 
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