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VOL. III.

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The NINTH EDITION.

DUBLIN:

Printed by and for GEORGE GRIERSON, at,
the Two Bibles in Effex-Street. 1728.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA

MONACENSIS.

To the Right Honourable

Henry Boyle, Efq;

SIR,

S the profest Design of this Work is to entertain its Readers in general, without gi

ving Offence to any particular Perfon, it would be difficult to find out fo proper a Patron for it as Your Self, there being none whofe Merit is more uni

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verfally

verfally acknowledged by all Parties, and who has made himself more Friends and fewer Enemies. Your great Abilities, and unquestioned Integrity, in thofe high Employments which You have pass'd through, would not have been able to have raised Youthis general Approbation, had they not been accompanied with that Moderation in an high Fortune, and that Affability of Manners, which are fo confpicuous through all Parts of Your Life. Your Averfion to any Oftentatious Arts of fetting to Show thofe great Services which You have done the Publick, has not likewife a little contributed to that Univerfal Acknowledgment which is paid You by Your Country.

THE Confideration of this Part of Your Character, is that which hinders me from enlarging on thofe Extraordinary Talents, which have given You

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fo great a Figure in the British Senate, as well as on that Elegance and Politenefs which appear in your more retired Converfation. Ifhould be unpardonable, if, after what I have said, I should longer detain You with an Addrefs of this Nature: I cannot, however, conclude it without owning those great Obligations which You have laid upon,

SIR,

Your moft Obedient,

Humble Servant,

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