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Surely, at this Day, with us of Europe, the Vantage of Strength at Sea (which is one of the Principall Dowries of this Kingdome of Greate Brittaine) is Great; Both because Most of the
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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Admonition from one of the Fellowes (who was the Principall of the Undergraduats and Postmasters) that all things should be carried in good Order.
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_ -- _The names of the Principall Actors in all these playes.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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In short, altho I notte you all these Circumstances yett I beg your Principall imply [17] may be in the Sale of the Vessel for as much as she will fetch, and Persuad the Captn. that it is his Interest if he rightly Considers the Charge of Victualing and seting her out for a Voyage to Holland, to which I begg your Particular attention.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Also the Causes, signes, and Various Cures, of the most Principall Maladies and Infirmities incident to Women.
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Principall Secretarie, there dined togither these personages,
The Scholemaster 1870
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Principall tabill, and ther honestly and clenly avoyde and withdrawe all the servise of the high table. [d] ther-to the kerver muste be redy, and redely have a voyder to geder in all the broke brede, trenchours, cromys lying upon the tabill; levyng none other thyng save the salte-seler, hole brede (yf any be lefte), and cuppys.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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However, I returne you many thankes for lending mee the Principall, and I have halve a dozen copies for you, and the painting I have delivered to your
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To my Lady's, and she not being well did not see her, but straight home with my wife, and late to my office, concluding in the business of Wood's masts, which I have now done and I believe taken more pains in it than ever any Principall officer in this world ever did in any thing to no profit to this day.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668
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To my Lady's, and she not being well did not see her, but straight home with my wife, and late to my office, concluding in the business of Wood's masts, which I have now done and I believe taken more pains in it than ever any Principall officer in this world ever did in any thing to no profit to this day.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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