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By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell

1814.

TO THE

HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND

THE

LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

MY LORD,

THE value of your good opinion is so well known and so duly estimated among Literary Men, that by thus returning thanks for the permission your Lordship has given me, to prefix your name to these Volumes, I am certain of rendering them the most important service.

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