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<p n="1018">Continued Wednesday 30th April 1783</p>
<p n="1019">Visitation of God were become dangerous to the<lb></lb>
Community Accordingly the growing Charity was<lb></lb>
Cherished not only by Citizens, upon whose Notice it<lb></lb>
more immediately pressed but by others who had Judgmt.<lb></lb>
to select proper Objects of their Attention and Ability<lb></lb>
to Assist them. And here the Mind which rejoices<lb></lb>
to Indulge the Pleasing Sensations of benevolence<lb></lb>
cannot but feel the warnest glow when it Perceives<lb></lb>
how much the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20209_geo192">Hospital of Bethlem</rs>
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has been Indebted<lb></lb>
to secret unknown Benefactors Private Charity may<lb></lb>
not Perhaps excite and animate others so much as<lb></lb>
Public Benefactions but it affords the strongest<lb></lb>
Recommendation of the Institution which it favors.<lb></lb>
He who Conceals his good Decds cannot Possibly be<lb></lb>
Influenced by any other than the purest motives it<lb></lb>
is the Merits of the Objects only that he regards these<lb></lb>
he weighs well before he gives his Alms and he is<lb></lb>
Seldom mistaken in their Application</p>
<p n="1020">About the Year 1644 it was under<lb></lb>
Consideration to enlarge the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20209_geo193">Old Hospital</rs>
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but the<lb></lb>
Situation was too Close and Confined to allow of its<lb></lb>
being rendered a Commodions Asylum for the Numerous<lb></lb>
distracted Persons of both Sexes that claimed its<lb></lb>
Protection and Probably the dreadful Commotions of<lb></lb>
that period <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20209_occ1255">checked the Idea</rs>
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of Improvement. When<lb></lb>
Peace and legal Government were restored and England<lb></lb>
had rest from the Violence with which it had been<lb></lb>
Convals'd the Concerns of civil Society were again attended<lb></lb>
to and it became a matter of Serious Deliberation to<lb></lb>
Build a <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20209_geo194">New Hospital</rs>
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