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INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE
YOUNGER CLERGY.

BY WILLIAM GILPIN, M. A.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY,

AND VICAR OF BOLDRE, IN NEW FOREST.

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Strahan and Prefton, Printers-Street, London.

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JOHN HILEY ADDINGTON, Esq.

JOINT PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF
HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES.

MY DEAR SIR,

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Vicar's Hill, Jan. 8, 1808.

T is a pleasure to me, that these little publications afford me an opportunity of giving a teftimony of my affection to fome of my early friends, whofe conduct in life has given me fo much fatisfaction. With various branches of your family I have had much intimate acquaintance, if I may not call it friendship; among whom I have seen all the duties of private life very pleasingly fulfilled.

It has been the impudent boast of profligacy, that private vices are public benefits. I fhould not think the welfare of my Country ran much risk, under the influence of an oppofite maxim. -I dare even venture to conceive, the influence

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