OF HEBREW AND EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITY, INTENDED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PENTATEUCH. By JOHN WALSH, M.R. I. A. VICAR OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF CLONCURRY Ον μεν, δια ταθ' ησυχαστον, αλλ ένεκα το θεόφιλος και υπερ κατεσχημένην. σοφίας PHILO. DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY JOHN HALPEN, NO. 55, HENRY-STREET. MDCCXCIII, 221. e. 280. DEDICATION. THE RIGHT ΤΟ HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT LEWISHAM, LORD WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES, AND PRESIDENT OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. MY LORD, IT is not arifing from a vain presumption of any literary merit in this work, which could poffibly recommend it to your Lordship's patronage, that I take the liberty of this Dedication neither is it in order to offer up the vain incenfe of adulation, which would be the more difgufting, where every real virtue, which alone can add true nobility to the mind of man, fi DEDICATION. is confpicuously exemplified, in a life of pure Benevolence, and unfullied morality but the Author's principal motive is, to express in the most public manner, his grateful acknowledgments for thofe kind attentions which were paid to him, while refiding two years at HAYES, for the recovery of his health, during which time, the following Sketches were the principal amusement of, my Lord, your lordship's most obliged and faithful fervant, JOHN WALSH. |