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NEW GRAMMAR

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DUTCH LANGUAGE.

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You have condefcended to permit me to offer to Your Royal Highness my new Grammar of the Dutch Lan

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HAARE KONINGLYKE HOOGHEID

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HERTOGIN VAN YORCK.

MEVROUW,

Mag het uwe Koninglyke

Hoogheid behaagelyk Weezen.

Het heeft uwe Koninglyke Hoogheid aangenaam geweest myne nieuwe Hollandfche Spraakkonft onder uwe A 2 bescherming

guage. Such an Honor is Jo much the more flattering to me, as to thofe who know that you are converfant with the greatest niceties of that Language; it seems to imply, that Your Royal Highness thinks the performance is not entirely deftitute of Merit.

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When I reflect, Madam, that Your Royal Highness takes pleasure in reading the matchless Poetical Works of Vondel, I can but be conscious bow unworthy of your abilities is the poor bomage, which I humbly lay at Your

Royal Highness's feet.

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