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Part of the last sentence of 'The Art of the People', delivered to the Birmingham Society of Arts and the Birmingham School of Design, 19 Feb. 1879, differing slightly from the text printed in C.W ., xxii, pp. 28-50.
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'Labour and Pleasure versus Labour and Sorrow' delivered to the Birmingham Society of Arts and the Birmingham School of Design at Birmingham Town Hall, 19 Feb. 1880, differing from the version printed as 'The Beauty of Life' in C.W., xxii, pp. 51-80.…
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'Art and the Beauty of the Earth' delivered at the prizegiving of the schools of Science and Art of the Wedgwood Institute at Burslem Town Hall, 13 Oct. 1881. For text see C.W ., xxii, pp. 155-174. The MS. lacks the first part and beg. at…
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Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization', which was delivered at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, 10 Mar. 1881 (CW ., xxii, pp. 119-152), but then differing considerably from it. The MS. is…
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Lecture delivered to the Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist League at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 15 Dec. 1886; printed by Le Mire, op. cit., pp. 240-265. [No. 16].
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'Art: A Serious Thing', delivered at the prizegiving of the Leek School of Art at the Temperance Hall, Leek, 12 Dec. 1882; printed by Le Mire, op. cit., pp. 309-331. [No. 15].
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'The History of Pattern Design', delivered to the Trades Guild of Learning at the Co-operative Institute, Castle St, London, 8 Apr. 1879. The MS. is incomplete, breaking off at '...faults that it shares with the ancient architecture of India, the…
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Lecture delivered at New Islington Hall, Ancoats, Manchester, 26 Sept. 1886. The version in this MS., however, contains references to Windsor and St George's Chapel (f. 19) which suggest it was written for delivery in Windsor, though there is no…
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