ITS DIFFICULTIES IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES
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THE REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D.,

PROVOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,

In Testimony of

ADMIRATION FOR HIS HIGH CHARACTER AND DEVOTED ATTACHMENT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

COUPLED WITH

PURSUITS WHICH HAVE PLACED HIM IN THE FOREMOST RANK
AS A MAN OF SCIENCE,

These Lectures

ARE, WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION, DEDICATED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.