TO HIS GRACE
THE
DUKE
OF
NORTHUMBERLAND.
- My Lord,
THE following work is inscribed to your Grace with the most genuine respect, and, I flatter myself, not without propriety, since it may possibly afford amusement to one of the most polished Noblemen of the present age, to observe from what rude and simple beginnings our highest improvements have been derived; and to trace, to their source, those peculiarities of character, manners and government, which so remarkably distinguish the Teutonic nations.
Among the historical digressions which our Author has scattered through his work, is a full relation of the first settlement of
the Normans in France. This cannot
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