AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS BY VERE HENRY, LORD HOBART WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH EDITED BY MARY, LADY HOBART IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1885 TO THE EIGHT NEPHEWS OF VERE HENRY, LORD HOBART, I DEDICATE THIS WORK IN THE HOPE THAT HIS LOVE OF TRUTH, HIS SINGLE AMBITION TO BE JUST, YET ALWAYS MERCIFUL, HIS FAIRNESS IN REASONING AND THE FORESIGHT OF HIS OPINIONS, HIS HUMILITY IN THOUGHT AND FREEDOM FROM SELF-ASSERTION, HIS REVERENT LOVE OF NATURE, HIS TENDER CONSIDERATION FOR HIS RELATIONS, HIS SYMPATHY FOR THE WEAK AND OPPRESSED, HIS PROTECTION OF THE POOR, HIS TRUST IN GOD'S LOVE, MAY STIMULATE THE SONS OF HIS BROTHERS TO PRESERVE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH THEIR UNCLE LARGELY POSSESSED AND WHICH WERE PRE-EMINENT IN THE RECORDS OF HIS AND THEIR COMMON ANCESTOR, THE PATRIOT, JOHN HAMPDEN. VOL. I. 4* |