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has long been the high and cherished hope of my ambition to add my humble tribute to the rich and numberless offerings that have been laid upon the shrine of your genius. At each succeeding Book that I have given to the world, I have paused to consider, if it were worth inscribing with your great name, and at each I have played the procrastinator, and hoped for that morrow of better desert which never came. Having now