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 Ου δὲ μεν, δια τέθ' ησυχασέον, αλλ ένεκα το θεόφιλες και υπερ κατεσχημένην. DUBLIN: PHILO. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY JOHN HALPEN, NO. 55, HENRY-STREET. MDCCXCIII, 221. e. 280. 129. f DEDICATIΟΝ. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT LEWISHAM, LORD WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES, AND PRESI- MY LORD, It is not arifing from a vain presumption of any literary merit in this work, which could possibly 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 incense of adulation, which would be the more disgusting, where every real virtue, which alone can add true nobility to the mind of man, is 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 those kind attentions which were paid to him, while residing 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 servant, JOHN WALSH. L |