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THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN
IN GREAT BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING

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PRNITED BY AND FOR J. DAVIS, MILITARY CHRONICLE AND MILITARY
CLASSICS' OFFICE, 14, CHARLOTTE-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, AND TO
BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS-1817.

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

MY DEAR SIR,

EVERY liberal motive that can actuate an Author in the dedication of his labours, concurs in directing me to you, as the person to whom the following Work should be inscribed.

If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary, mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable, in appearing fully sensible of it, where can I find one, in complimenting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings? Your excellence not only in the art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame, but also in Philosophy and elegant Literature, is well known to the present, and will continue to be the admiration of future ages. Your equal and placid temper, your variety of conversation, your true politeness, by which you are so amiable in private society, and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great, the accomplished, the learned, and the ingenious; all these qualities I can, in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery, ascribe to you.

Ir a man may indulge an honest pride, in having it known to the world; that he has been thought worthy of particular attention

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NE CEDE

MAL

John Et Sykes.

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