KD 1991

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
OCT 8 1941

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846,

BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

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THE YOUNG MEN,

BY WHOSE INVITATION THESE LECTURES WERE

WRITTEN,

BEFORE WHOM THEY WERE DELIVERED,

AND AT WHOSE REQUEST THEY ARE NOW PUBLISHED,

THEY ARE

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BY THEIR FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.