Excerpt from Notes on Irish Architecture, Vol. 1
But it still remains my duty, both to editor and reader, to allude to the causes that led to the commencement of the following book, and briefly to remark upon the last few years of my father's life, which were spent, to the exclusion of all other pleasures and pursuits, in preparing for a work which he was not destined personally to complete.
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