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Excerpt from An Inaugural Lecture on the Utility of Anglo-Saxon Literature
For perhaps no author can be found, either noble or royal, whose name is calculated to add so much lustre and dignity to the catalogue, as that of Alfred!
In addition to the private motives of gratitude and regard, which will always ensure my attachment to every part of your Lordship's family, I feel a peculiar pleasure, as I think there is a peculiar propriety, in submitting the first fruits of my Saxon Rudies to. your patronage and protection. The molt valuable part of the laws, the constitution, and the religion of England, is undoubtedly built on a Saxon foundation. Those laws, that constitution, and that religion, have always been uniformly supported by your Lordship with the prudence of a Statesman, the integrity of a Patriot, and the feelings of a Man. As a distinguished member also of the University of Oxford, and a sincere lover of literature, you will naturally be disposed to give a favourable reception to a work, prepared within those walls where your Lordship's father passed the classical hours of his academical life.
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