FIRST CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY BY HOMERSHAM COX, M.A. A JUDGE OF COUNTY COURTS AUTHOR OF 'THE INSTITUTIONS OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT 'ANTIENT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS' AND OTHER WORKS LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1886- All rights reserved TO THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P. DEAR SIR, With your usual kindness you allow me to dedicate this volume to you. In former years it was my great privilege to have frequent conversations with you on subjects of public interest, and I was deeply impressed by the frankness with which you expressed your opinions, the prodigious extent of your learning, and the uniform courtesy and generosity with which you spoke of political oppo nents. To be permitted to inscribe the name of an accomplished scholar, who is also the most illustrious statesman of modern times, upon these pages is no small compensation for the toil and anxiety which they have cost me. If they should appear to you unworthy of that honour, I will plead by way of apology the words of Cicero:-Utinam modo conata efficere possim. Rem enim (quod te non fugit) magnam complexus sum et gravem et plurimi otii, quo ego maxime egeo. I am, dear Sir, Yours most faithfully, HOMERSHAM COX. TONBRIDGE: Dec. 1885. |