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Title: Almoran and Hamet
Author: John Hawkesworth
Release Date: November 10, 2004 [eBook #14013]
Language: English
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ALMORAN AND HAMET
An Oriental Tale in Two Volumes
by
JOHN HAWKESWORTH
MDCCLXI
VOLUME FIRST
TO THE KING
SIR,
Amidst the congratulations and praises of a free, a joyful, and now
united people, people, who are ambitious to express their duty and
their wishes in their various classes; I think myself happy to have YOUR
MAJESTY'S most gracious permission to approach You, and, after the
manner of the people whose character I have assumed, to bring an humble
offering in my hand.
As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our
excellent constitution in comparison of others; my thoughts were
naturally turned to YOUR MAJESTY, as its warmest friend and most
powerful protector: and as the whole is intended, to recommend the
practice of virtue, as the means of happiness; to whom could I address
it with so much propriety, as to a PRINCE, who illustrates and enforces
the precepts of the moralist by his life.
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