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IPIEISIFA(D]E< 



Custom having pronounced that a book is 

 incomplete without a prefatory introduction, 

 it might savour of arrogance if the tribute 

 were wit held in the present instance, although 

 to a novice the task of complying with this 

 injunction is not a little embarrassing. 



In order to explain the motives which 

 directed the intrusion of the following pages 

 upon the public, it may be necessary to pre- 

 mise that desire of fame, or expectation of 

 profit, was not amongst the number. A ivish 

 that every lover of the Angle should partici- 

 pate in the advantages to be derived from 



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