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Excerpt from Greenwich: A Poem, Descriptive and HistoricalAuthor, when he re¿ects on the distinguished honour conferred on him by the amiable condescension of Her Royal Highness the princess or wales, in graciously permitting her name to appear in his subscription. And he begs to return his Sincere acknowledgements to the noble and eminent persons, andito the ladies and gentlemen, who have kindly given their support with so much spirit and liberality. He desires to apologize for the delay of the work, which he assures them, very truly, proceeded from causes which could neither be foreseen nor prevented..He must mention to the reader, that several expressions in the Poem, taken from Pope, and from other poets, he has carefully marked by inverted commas, to denote his Obligation but as it is possible that some may have passed unmarked, he hopes they will not be imputed to plagiarism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.