The Language of the Eye: The Importance and Dignity of the Eye As Indicative of General Character, Female Beauty, and Manly Genius (Classic Reprint)

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I knew you to be a friend and lover of learning, and, therefore, I sought the bwr of dedicating these pages to your Lordship. I be to thank you for the permission, and may observe, another fact emboldened me to seek that favour, - viz., the circumstance of your Lordship being President of a Literary Society of. Which I have the honour of being vice-president.

I have endeavoured to preserve the substance and spirit of the subject, and yet write in an untechnical manner; but you will not be surprised, that in this attempt I have met difficulties I have only partially surmounted.

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