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and yet have maturely weighed each and every reason for and against your regeneration, and boldly assert more is for [[strikethrough]] us [[/strikethrough]] you than against [[strikethrough]] us [[/strikethrough]] you 
The three preceding mentioned gentlemen are equal to if not superior in talent to any Boston can produce. our portrait painters generally bid fair to excel-all that is wanting is your help as a body corporate, your cooperation as lovers of the Fine arts. Where, if you become extinct shall we go to study the models of antiquity?  Alas! we know of no ^other^ place, wherein the experience of ages is collected en masse, no place wherein to receive that instruction so essential to a knowledge of our profession.
Mr [[Bowen ?]] the proprietor, has offered