TO THE RIGHT HON. 
THE EARL OF RIPON, 
VISCOUNT GODERICH, 
jiorU 
- <§'C. ^c. 4‘f'* 
My Lord, 
The completion of this Work affords me 
the opportunity I have long desired of thanking 
your Lordship thus publicly, for the kindness 
with which you acceded to my request to be 
permitted to dedicate it to you. 
The encouragement your Lordship was pleased 
to give me has served to stimulate me in the pro- 
secution of a task, which would, I fear, have been 
too great for me to have accomplished, in my 
present condition, under any ordinary views of 
ambition. Indeed, labouring as I have been for 
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