Hannah More From a Drawing by Miss Simmons after a Picture fresented to her by M. More Painted by Miss Reynolds. Sister of the late President of the Royal Academy Published June 4 1838 by T. CadellStrand London. THE WORKS OF HANNAH MORE. A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, IN TWELVE VOLUMES. VOL. XII. LIFE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND. 1838. OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, QUEEN, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c. &c. &c. MADAM, THE gracious and condescending permission which Your Majesty has granted me to prefix your name to this Volume, seems to require, while it encourages, an explanation of the circumstances which induced me to solicit so exalted an honour. As one of the most distinguished ornaments of her sex, the memory of Hannah More, I felt, could no where be more appropriately cherished than in the heart of Your Majesty; as the steady supporter and zealous maintainer of the throne, the record of her loyalty might hope to repose in its shadow; as the eloquent advocate and diligent propagator of the Protestant Faith held by the Church established in these realms, to none could the narrative of her life look so hopefully for countenance as to the Defender of that Faith, and the temporal Head of that Church. While the history of one who was the approved and accepted monitress of youthful Royalty, might hope, however humbly and respectfully, to win from Your Majesty one favourable regard. That Your Majesty may long and happily live to cherish, guard, and govern those sacred institutions, and to protect that holy religion, of which Hannah More was through life the advocate and defender, is the fervent prayer of, MADAM, Your Majesty's most loyal subject, and most obedient and grateful servant, HENRY THOMPSON. |