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A new edition of Toland's History of the druids: - Free History Ebooks

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THEFIRST JLETTEMiTO THERIGHT HONOURABLETHELORD VISCOUNT MOLESWORTH.feOME men, my lord, from a natural greatness<strong>of</strong> soul, and o<strong>the</strong>rs from a sense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> want <strong>of</strong>learning in <strong>the</strong>mselves, or <strong>the</strong> advantages <strong>of</strong> it ino<strong>the</strong>rs, have many times liberally contributed towards<strong>the</strong> advancement <strong>of</strong> letters. But when<strong>the</strong>y, whose excellent natural parts are richly cultivatedby sound literature, undertake <strong>the</strong> protection<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> muses, writers feel a double encouragement,both as <strong>the</strong>y are happily enabled to perfect<strong>the</strong>ir studies, and as <strong>the</strong>ir patrons are true judges<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir performances. 'Tis from this considerationalone (abstracted, my lord, from all that youhave already done, or may hereafter deserve fromyour country, by an unshaken love <strong>of</strong> liberty) thatI presume to acquaint your lordship with a designwhich I formed several years ago at Oxford, andwhich I have ever since kept in view; collecting,as occasiojii presented, whatever might any way

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