TO THE 



LADIES, NOBILITY, CLERGY, AND GENTRY, 



SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS WORK. 



MY LORDS, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN, 



When I consider the circumstances under which 

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 kindly patronize this work, I feel it my bounden 

 duty to return you my sincere thanks for your 

 prompt compliance with my wishes. To such of 

 you as are dignitaries and clergymen of the esta- 

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 vidually rendered me, but likewise for the kind 

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 acquaintance. I am aware that you may deem 

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 who have thus benefitted me ; but I conceive that 

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