id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
27322	Hillary, William, Sir	An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)			.txt	text/plain	12213	381	49	In the nineteenth century, surrounded by every improvement and institution which the benevolent can suggest, or the art of man accomplish for the mitigation or prevention of human ills, will it for a moment be capable of belief, that there does not, in all our great and generous land, exist one National Institution which has for its direct object the rescue of human life from shipwreck? Honoured, as this Institution has been, by the high patronage of the King, and of his illustrious family--constituted a Royal Institution by his Majesty's gracious command--sanctioned by many of the most distinguished characters in the church and state, and sustained by the bounty of a generous nation--it is not for me to have the presumption to offer my acknowledgements, for that support which the cause of our shipwrecked fellow-creatures has obtained from the sovereign and the people of this great country.	cache/27322.txt	txt/27322.txt
