TO
HIS HIGHNESS
THE RAJAH OF TRAVANCORE.
SIR,
The very obliging manner in which your Highness
has been pleased to permit me to dedicate the following
work to you, the favourable sentiments which your High-
ness has graciously expressed regarding it and my former
work, together with the liberality and patronage you have
so condescendingly afforded me, demand my most grateful
acknowledgments.
My sole object in publishing this and my former
Dictionary dedicated by permission to your Highness's
late brother and predecessor, together with other import-
ant works which I have been permitted to carry through
the press, has been a sincere desire to diffuse real useful
knowledge and learning among your Highness's subjects.
The works just referred to have required great
labour and attention on your part, and I trust my labours
will, through the blessing of Divine Providence, be even-
tually attended by beneficial results.
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