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Dedica
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To his royal highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is respectfully dedicated, by permission of her majesty the Queen, the following record of literary and intellectual labours among the ancient and illustrious race whose representative he is, in the hope that when future years have extended his experience and ripened his judgment, he may feel a regard for the inhabitants of the principality, as strong as is their affection for the heir apparent to the throne of Britain.
(1st ed., 1849; reprinted in the 2nd ed., 1876).
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On the map of Britain, facing St. George's Channel, is a group of counties called Wales, inhabited by a people distinct from, and but very imperfectly understood by, those who surround them.
Preface.
The facts of history, apart from the circumstances from which they sprang, can afford no instruction; for our knowledge of effects is not complete, until we add to it some acquaintance with their causes.
Chapter I. Historical sketch of Welsh literature prior to the twelfth century.
The author of the following work had for some years been collecting materials for a new and improved edition; but owing to declining health, and a pressure of other engagements, he had, at the time of his death, been able to accomplish but a portion of the improvements which he had contemplated.
Editor's preface (2nd ed., 1876).
In the Vale of Neath, at the foot of the hills that skirt the boundaries of the counties of Brecon and Glamorgan, is Pontneddfechan, the birthplace of Thomas Stephens.
The life of Thomas Stephens (2nd ed., 1876).
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I believe I have now gone over as much ground as the reader can reasonably be expected to travel; and, at parting, take leave to ask if, the the period under consideration, the Kymry were not among the most intelligent and intellectual of the inhabitants of Europe? We wait the answer in perfect confidence.
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