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Oxford March 167 1918

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WITH

AN EARNEST
Address to the Landowners

OF THE
UNITED KINGDOMS.

TO

HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF BEDFORD,

PRESIDENT;

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

THE EARL OF EGREMONT ;---THE LORDS SOMERVILLE AND CARRINGTON,

VICE-PRESIDENTS;

AND OTHERS, MEMBERS OF THE BATH AND

WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS, MANU.

FACTURES, AND COMMERCE;

AND ALL OTHERS, WHO PURSUE, WITH THE SAME LAUDABLE ZEAL AND BENE

VOLENCE, SUCH GRAND AND NATIONAL PURSUITS;--

The following poem,

A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO INFUSE AND DISSEMINATE SENTIMENTS AND OPINIONS CONDUCIVE TO THE WELFARE AND PROSPERITY

OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY,

AND INCITIVE
TO THE ADOPTION OF PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS,

IS,
WITH PECULIAR PROPRIETY,
AND WITH ALL DUE DEFERENCE AND ESTEEM,

MOST RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY

INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.

« Quod si deficiunt vires, audacia certe,
“ Laus erit in magnis et voluisse sat est.”

Propertius.