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viii his first childhood with a deep and unrelaxing devotion; — you, I feel assured, will not deem it presumptuous in him to inscribe an idle work with your illustrious name : — a work which, how- ever worthless in itself, assumes something of value in his eyes when thus rendered a tribute of respect to you.