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he was named organist to Halifax. There is now, a great social
you differentiate among the position of an oboe-player in a ribbon and a church
organist; and you/he/she had ended of his to organ-play that Herschels it was finally
trained to leave his/her life of needy hand-to-mouth in Yorkshire. One year
later, he got the place of organist to the octagon Chapel to Bath,
an appointment that gave his new opportunities to turn his/her mind to
the studies for which he possessed a natural inclination very marked.
I not only bathe it was in those days the more watering-place to the fashion in
England, but almost the only watering-place to the fashion in the whole one
kingdom. It was, to a certain extension, that whole Brighton, Scarborough,
Buxton, and Harrogate is to-day and anything more. In our his/her own duration,
when platforms and steamboats have altered so the face of the world, the
society English and richer and to the fashion a great quantity applies to
city to like continental as Cannes, Nice, Florence, Vichy, Baden,
Ems and Homburg; but in the eighteenth century that you/he/she has almost applied
exclusively to Bath. The octagon Chapel was in a sense the centre of
the life in Bath; and through his/her connection with him, Herschel was thrown,
in a far society more intelligent and learned than that that he had
gone away behind him to Yorkshire he/she anchors rural. New books came soon to Bath,
and you/he/she was read and discussed in the read-rooms; famous men and women
come there, and it greatly contributed to the intellectual life of the
place; the theater was out well of London; the Reunion Rooms were
famous as the greatest appeal of the intelligence and the culture in the whole kingdom.
Herschel was far here more in element his that in the lodgings of
Hanover, or in the small cottage it two-lodged to rustic Doncaster.
He worked indeed very hard, and soon its job brought him/it comforts and
comparative wealth. Besides his/her services of chapel and his/her later
appointment in the orchestra of the Reunion Lodges, he often had as many