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JOHN HORNE TOOKE.

SIR,

THE intrinfic merits of a book are unquestionably its best recommendation to the attention of the public:-If it can derive any additional advantage from the fanction of HIS name to whom it is inscribed, that advantage must arise from the fuppofition that he is capable of judging of the fubject, and that he has in fact exercised his judgment.

THE man whose public conduct, for a series of years, has proved that he poffeffes the most profound and accurate knowledge of the whole of

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