Sacred History, AND IN ITS INFLUENCE ON THE Moral Character; IN A SERIES OF DISCOURSES, PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN THE YEAR 1809, AT THE LECTURE, FOUNDED BY THE LATE By the Rev. I. B. S. CARWITHEN, M. A. LONDON: FRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND; FOR I. PARKER, OXFORD. 1810. TO THE MOST NOBLE RICHARD MARQUIS WELLESLEY,K.G. ONE OF HIS MAJESTY's PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE. MY LORD, THOUGH the inability with which the following Discourses are executed, may bring on me the charge of presumption in selecting a name of such high authority on every question connected with the history and science of the eastern world; yet the motives by which they were suggested, may, in some degree, recommend them to the approbation of Marquis Wellesley.--To no one, my Lord, could they be addressed with so much propriety; since, among the many claims, which a vigorous and splendid administration in India has entailed on public |