Excerpt from Fragments of Two Essays in English Philology
The following sheets, pp. 1 - 56, 1 - 80, have been for many years lying at the Pitt Press unfinished and un published. They were, as I conjectured and am assured by Bishop Thirlwall, the work of archdeacon Hare, Whose representatives have authorised the publication. Only 180 copies are for sale.
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