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Excerpt from A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq.: The Abyssinian Traveller
Pamphlet (a fort of widow's mite), for the pleafilre received from your five quartos. Aware of the dangers of launching into the foaming fea of ufual dedication, in Which many an unfortunate author has been drowned, I tremble at my prefent attempt. Ex alted panegyric too frequently incurs the fufpicion of a fueer. Taur dedication, illuf'trious Sir, to the heft of kings, {trikes me as the mof'c perfeet model of imitation - it is a column of Attic elegance and fimplicity, ereeted to a deferving monarch. Pray, Sir, did his augufi: Majef'cy honour it With a perufal before pub lication? It truly fo1rms the 716 plus ulna of human panegyric, and what is marvellous, cannot be fufpeeted of adulatxon. Pray.
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