পাতা:গ্রীক দেশের ইতিহাস.djvu/৮

To DAVID HARE, Esq. Secretary to the Calcutta School Society, &с &c. My DEAR SIR, To none can I dedicate the following translation with more propriety than to you, to whom I, in common with many of my countrymen, am indcbted for the benefits of Education, and whose exertions m enlightening the Natives have been at once the most active, persevering, and disinterested It is universally known in this country, that you have not been content merely with fulfilling the duties of your Secretaryship, but that, as a true philanthropist, you have devoted your own private purse, your ease and comfort—that ease and comfort, which a manın your cırcuınstances seldom feels willing to part with-to the good of India I mean, to the moral and intellectual improvement of this country. - You, Sir, if I am rightly informed, were the originator of the * Hindoo College, which has done so much good It was you, who by displaying the advantages to be derived from such an institution, persuaded the Natives, then bhnd to their own interests, to contribute their assistance to it And it was you, who, though not the projector and author of the Calcutta School Society, had a priilelpal hand in its establishment Who would take so much trouble for the good of a foreign land as you have done.” Ordinary patcmce is apt to be exhausted even in such a laudable cause But your exertions to amchorate the condition of the Natives have been indefatigable The advantages our country has derived from you are too numerous to be detailed within the limits of a Dedication _They would fill up a whole volume, and would be a more proper work for a history than for an address of this nature You have forsaken the land of your birth, and in your concern for the welfare of the sons of India, you have almost forgotten