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Excerpt from An Accurate Historical Account of All the Orders of Knighthood at Present Existing in Europe, Vol. 1: To Which Are Prefixed a Critical Dissertation Upon the Ancient and Present State of Those Equestrian Institutions, and a Prefatory Discourse on the Origin of Knighthood in General, the Whole Interspersed With Illustrations and Explanatory Notes
Flatt'ere is generally considered as the tutelary Divinity of Dedications.
I shall not, however, sacrifice at her Shrine, hoi invoke her aid, on the present occasmn. Would I were the younger Pliny! But your Lordship's titles-form the truest Panegyricl. And 'tis under the auspices of SO great a name, I presume to present the Public with the following work.
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