Excerpt from The Clubs of London, Vol. 1 of 2: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and ConversationsOnce fetter it with the chains of a definition circumscribe its comforts, its enjoyments, its warm communion of heart, within the limits of any precise term, - and it is no longer a club.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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