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DEDICATION.

To that most enlightened Phalanx, the Reviewers of Great Britain, greeting.

GENTLEMEN,

UNLIKE the herd of venal writers, who prostitute their wits in order to ensure those panegyrics which are not their due, I thus present myself before ye, fully determined to advance nothing but the naked truth; for what class of literary men exists so immaculate as yourselves? Were I to place the smallest reliance upon those acrimonious and vilifying epithets which are incessantly bestowed upon you, I should then deem it necessary to cast the sop to Cerberus, by forwarding a copy of this production gratis to every scribe among you.

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But feeling conscious that the perfectibility of your judgments can only be equalled by the disinterestedness of your monthly criticisms, I shall fearlessly commit myself to the ordeal of such uniform gentleness, candour, and undeviating honour, a string of terms in every respect synonymous with your inquisitorial avocations. I have the honour to be,

Gentlemen,

with all becoming deference,

your most obediently devoted,

and very humble servant,

THE EDITOR.

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