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VICAR OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF CLONCURRY
AND KILCOCK, IN THE DIOCESE OF KILDARE.

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Ου δὲ μεν, δια τεθ' ησυχαστον, αλλ ένεκα το θεόφιλος και υπερ
δυναμιν επιτολμητέον λεγειν, οίκοθεν μεν ἐδεν, όλίγα δε αντί πολλών εφ'
ἅ την ανθρώπινην διάνοιαν φθανειν εικος, ερωτι και ποθῳ σοφίας

κατεσχημένην,

PHILO

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR

BY JOHN HALPEN, NO. 55, HENRY-STREET.

MDCCXCIII,

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD VISCOUNT LEWISHAM,

LORD WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES, AND PRESI→ DENT OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY.

MY LORD,

IT is is not arifing from a vain pre·sumption of any literary merit in this work, which could poffibly recommend it to your Lordship's patronage, that I take the liberty of this Dedication neither is it in order to offer

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up the vain incenfe of adulation, which would be the more difgufting, every real virtue, which alone can add true nobility to the mind of man,

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