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EIGHT SERMONS.

ADDRESSED TO THR

ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY,

IN THE

Barrack-Chapel at Woolwich,

AT THE

COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR 1835.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM-HENRY HENSLOWE, M.A.,

OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

LATE CURATE OF WEST TILBURY, ESSEX.

"I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not
be ashamed."-DAVID, Psalm cxix. 46.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD & SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1836.

105.

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TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROWLAND LORD HILL,

GENERAL COMMANDING IN CHIEF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES,

&c. &c. &c.

MY LORD,

ALTHOUGH personally unknown to your lordship, I yet venture to adopt this mode of drawing your attention to those matters of MILITARY concern which are particularly noticed in this publication: not, indeed, because your lordship is invested with the official dignity of Commander-in-chief of the British Army, but because, on the other hand, that office itself is graced by its investiture of a character like your lordship. Pardon me this act of homage. The gratuitous expression of a pleasing truth is not to be identified with the servile language of adulation; and it were entirely inconsistent with the principles of the author of this work, meanly and unduly to flatter any man's

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