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Theatre Royal, Hay Market, To which are prefix'd Illustrative Extracts, and a Prospectus of the Action. close window
Notes, "Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms", Obi 2002
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_Oxford_, prefix'd a Preface to it; in which he tells us, that he has good Reason to think, that this Author was contemporary with _Averroes_, who died very ancient in the Year of the _Hegira_ 595, which is co-incident with the 1198th Year of our Lord; according to which Account, the Author liv'd something above five hundred Years ago.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Secondly, that it appears to have been known at London, and particularly to the Master of Stair, in the month of January, 1692, that Glenco had taken the oath of allegiance, tho 'after the day prefix'd; for he saith, in his letter of the 30th of January, to Sir Tho.
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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The _Subscribers_ Names and Coats of Arms will be prefix'd to the Work.
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_ Congreve _has given the World an Ode, and prefix'd to it a
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Samuel Cobb
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_Prefaces now a Days are rather Apologies for the Works to which they are prefix'd, than written for Instruction; and generally a ludicrous
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.
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And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use.
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Then that putts an End to that session till the tyme prefix'd and at that tyme they must meete againe without summons, and if they are not to meete so soone, ye king Issues out a proclaimation yt its his pleasure ye parliament should be prorogued so much Longer.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Many of Read's mathematical instruments, as well as his portrait, were preserved in the library when Harrison wrote his description of England, prefix'd to Holinshed's Chronicles; some of the former of which came into the possession of the historian.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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