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HISTORY OF GREECE.

BY

THE RIGHT REV. CONNOP THIRLWALL,

LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. L

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1860,

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TO

JULIUS CHARLES HARE.

MY DEAR HARE,

You will not be surprised, though you have received no previous intimation of my intention, to find this volume inscribed with your name. At the close of a work which has occupied a considerable portion of many years of my life, my thoughts naturally revert to the scenes and objects in the midst of which it was begun; to the days when we were living within the walls of the same college, and associated together in labours to which we have still reason to look back with pleasure. How much this work is indebted for whatever is good in it to that intimacy, and more especially to that literary partnership, it would not become me to say, even if I were able distinctly to point it out; but I am conscious that it would probably have been less faulty if I had more constantly considered it as subject to your inspection. This dedication comes too late either to raise a suspicion that it is meant to bias your judgment, or to incur the charge of presumption, as inviting the scrutiny of an eye so critical and so familiar with the best models, to what I myself feel to be a very imperfect essay. You will accept it as it is meant, for a token of friendship and esteem, which neither time nor distance can abate, and with which I remain,

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My dear Hare,

Yours faithfully,

C. ST. DAVID'S.

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