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... daughter of Sir Thomas Miller , of Glenlee , who was appointed Lord Justice Clerk in 1766 , and Lord President of the Court in 1788 ; and a sister of Sir William Miller , of Glenlee , Bart . , who was appointed one of the Judges of the ...
... daughter of Sir Thomas Miller , of Glenlee , who was appointed Lord Justice Clerk in 1766 , and Lord President of the Court in 1788 ; and a sister of Sir William Miller , of Glenlee , Bart . , who was appointed one of the Judges of the ...
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... daughter being employed to dispose of some trinkets belonging to 1 Which , according to custom , should have been burnt . - Gronovius , Thes . Græc . Antiq . J. Potteri Archæol . Græca . Lib . iv . c . 3 . Sinonis , is mistaken for our ...
... daughter being employed to dispose of some trinkets belonging to 1 Which , according to custom , should have been burnt . - Gronovius , Thes . Græc . Antiq . J. Potteri Archæol . Græca . Lib . iv . c . 3 . Sinonis , is mistaken for our ...
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... daughter , he gives it interment , and erects over it a monument , with the in- scription , Here lies the beautiful Sinonis . " - Rhodanes visiting this place a short while afterwards , and perceiving the inscription , adds to it ...
... daughter , he gives it interment , and erects over it a monument , with the in- scription , Here lies the beautiful Sinonis . " - Rhodanes visiting this place a short while afterwards , and perceiving the inscription , adds to it ...
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... daughter of the priestess of Venus , had three lovers , on one of whom she bestowed a goblet from which she usually drank ; on the head of the second she placed a chaplet of flowers which had encircled her brow , while the third ...
... daughter of the priestess of Venus , had three lovers , on one of whom she bestowed a goblet from which she usually drank ; on the head of the second she placed a chaplet of flowers which had encircled her brow , while the third ...
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... daughter of fair complexion . Fearing that her husband might not think the cause proportioned to the effect , she commits the infant in charge to Sisimithrus , an Ethiopian senator , and chief of the Gymnosophists , and deposits in his ...
... daughter of fair complexion . Fearing that her husband might not think the cause proportioned to the effect , she commits the infant in charge to Sisimithrus , an Ethiopian senator , and chief of the Gymnosophists , and deposits in his ...
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