10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREFACER»
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prefacer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prefacer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity
The prefacer insists that not only Mariposa but also ”the Reverend Mr. Drone,
Mullins and Bagshaw and Judge Pepperleigh and the rest" are compilations or
types. But it is the prefacer's unapologetic anticipation of Josh Smith that is of ...
2
Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches
The prefacer, whose advocacy is of the rigorous punishment of witches by
burning, may be another author, or he may be Darcey in disguise. He alleges that
he observed and viewed the witches being examined, but the documents printed
are ...
3
Sexing the Text: The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in ...
(Preface, 4-5) To this point, the prefacer's comments simply reiterate the
seventeenth-century position defining unconventional sexuality as sin. But as the
preface concludes, the prefacer aims his address at the men he hopes to scare
into piety ...
4
The works theological and miscellaneous ... of Francis ...
Upon the Prefacer's observing,' that Wake was not Archbishop of Canterbury,
when, at Sacheverel's trial, he spake in favour of reformation, the Letter-writer
remarks, that, " with the said Prefacer, it appears a crime " sufficient to be thought
...
5
The Works, Theological and Miscellaneous-- of Francis ...
Upon the Prefacer's observing, that Wake was not Archbishop of Canterbury,
when, at Sachevcrel's trial, he spake in favour of reformation, the Letter- writer
remarks, that, " with the said Prefacer, it appears a crime " sufficient to be thought
...
6
The Works, Theological and Miscellaneous, Including Some ...
Upon the Prefacer's observing, that Wake was not Archbishop of Canterbury,
when, at Sacliever"el's trial, he spake in favour of reformation,"the Letter-writer
remarks, that,“ with the said Prefacer, it appears a crime “ sufficient to be thought
...
7
The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, Or Parliament: ...
Considered According to Ancient Records Sir Matthew Hale, Francis Hargrave.
the prefacer has the honor of being intimate. It is a very angry performance. Yet
like the writers former works it is both able and learned. It aflerts the dernier refoi t
...
Sir Matthew Hale, Francis Hargrave, 1796
PREFACEr. N a moment when barbarians listen with horror to the miseries of a
Bastile, and every generous Briton's bosom burns 'with indignation, at the
sufserings of a few unfortunates, who, Wanting power or servility to sooth the
vanity of ...
9
General History of Ireland
The prefacer to the Memoirs of the Marquis of Clanricarde promises the world, in
his pompous title-page, a learned dissertation, wherein was inserted a dig-res
sion containing several curious observations concerning the antiquities of Ireland
...
Geoffrey Keating, Seathrún Keating, 1865
10
Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
The Dickinson prefacer had drawn up an inscription for an imaginary monument
to the founder of Pennsylvania, in which the usual lapidary adjectives were most
lavishly employed. Franklin replied to this passage in the manner following ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREFACER»
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In the introduction to the novel in the edition I read, the prefacer described Bigger's attempt to clean the rat out of his family's apartment as a ... «ThinkProgress, Oct 11»
