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Title: Sketch of Handel and Beethoven
Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon
Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday
Evening, Jan. 11, 1864

Author: Thomas Hanly Ball

Release Date: December 12, 2008 [EBook #27502]

Language: English

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SKETCH OF

HANDEL AND BEETHOVEN.

Two Lectures,

DELIVERED IN

THE LECTURE HALL OF THE WIMBLEDON
VILLAGE CLUB,

ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 14, 1863; AND MONDAY EVENING,
JAN. 11, 1864.

BY THE
REV. T. HANLY BALL, A.B.,

CURATE AND LECTURER OF ST. MARY'S, WIMBLEDON.

Published at the request and expense of a Parishioner.

LONDON:
CHARLES J. SKEET, 10, KING WILLIAM STREET,
CHARING CROSS.
1864.

DEDICATION.

TO
JOHN A. BEAUMONT ESQ.,
WIMBLEDON PARK HOUSE.

MY DEAR MR. BEAUMONT,

Seneca has well said, "The three main points in the question of
benefits, are, first, a judicious choice in the object; secondly, in the
matter of our benevolence; and thirdly, in the manner of expressing it."

Of the first, it would not be becoming in me to speak; of the second,
you are the rightful judge; of the third, I beg leave thus publicly to
state, that not only in requesting permission to publish this lecture at
your own expense but _on many other occasions_, you have fully come up
to Seneca's idea of what a benefactor ought to be.

I shall not attempt describing what I hope you give me credit for;
_Furnius_ never gained so much upon _Augustus_ as by a speech, upon the
getting of his father's pardon for siding with _