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COGERS HALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALL , a See also:London See also:tavern debating society. It was instituted in 1755 at the See also:White See also:Bear See also:Inn (now St See also:Bride's Tavern), See also:Fleet See also:Street, moved about 185o to Discussion Hall, See also:Shoe See also:Lane, and in 1871 finally migrated to the See also:Barley See also:Mow Inn, See also:Salisbury Square, E.C., its See also:present quarters. The name is often wrongly spelt Codgers and Coggers; the " o " is really See also:long, the accepted derivation being from See also:Descartes' Cogito, ergo sum, and thus meaning " The society of thinkers." The aims of the Cogers were " the promotion of the See also:liberty of the subject and the freedom of the See also:Press, the See also:maintenance of See also:loyalty to the See also:laws, the rights and claims of humanity and the practice of public and private virtue." Among its See also:early members Cogers Hall reckoned See also:John Wilkes, one of its first presidents, and See also:Curran, who in 1773 writes to a friend that he spent a couple of See also:hours every See also:night at the Hall. Later See also:Dickens was a prominent member. See See also:Peter See also:Rayleigh, See also:History of Ye Antient Society of Cogers (London, 1904).

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