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To {peak of your LorDsHIP, as.is the cuftom on thefe oc- 
cafions, would appear with a new air; for to you, the lan- 
guage of dedications would be truth: yet though it were no 
more than ecchoing the univerfal voice, I know ’twould be un- 
plealing ; for all applaufe founds to a delicate ear like flattery. 
Though I fhall not crowd the page addrefled immediately Po 
“your LorpsHir’s eye with praife; or tranferibe their wonder 
‘who fee greatnefs fo joined with affability, and knowledge fo 
united to politenefs; one thing -I fhall fay, and tis with pride 
and pleafure I thall fpeak it, that in this age, unfavourable as 
it is to literature, the leaft attempt toward. rendering knowledgg. 
ufeful is not without its patron, When England fhall be abje 
to produce a Linnaus, he will not. want a CLIFFORD. 
Though I can by this addrefs add nothing to that great opi- 
nion the world juftly entertain of your Lorpsutp’s virtues, I 
am con{cious that I fhall, in publifhing it, do myfelf the higheft 
honour it is poflible I fhould obtain. Science can boaft no 
greater glory, than to receive the patronage of Virtue. 
I have the honour to be, 
With the greateft refpect, 
My LORD, 
Your LorpsHIP’s moft obedient, 
and moft humble fervant, 
JOHN HILL: * 
