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... father : " A few days ago died at Windsor , Valentine Snow , Esq .; Serjeant Trumpeter to his Majesty , and father to Mrs. Baddeley , of Drury Lane Theatre . " DANIEL HIPWELL . " GERT " GREAT . - This adjective is common in the ...
... father : " A few days ago died at Windsor , Valentine Snow , Esq .; Serjeant Trumpeter to his Majesty , and father to Mrs. Baddeley , of Drury Lane Theatre . " DANIEL HIPWELL . " GERT " GREAT . - This adjective is common in the ...
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... father , who was a merchant in London , known as André ? Was John André born in 1750 or in 1751 ( a point and can the year be fixed in which he went to on which biographical dictionaries are at variance ) ; Switzerland ? R. J. WALKER ...
... father , who was a merchant in London , known as André ? Was John André born in 1750 or in 1751 ( a point and can the year be fixed in which he went to on which biographical dictionaries are at variance ) ; Switzerland ? R. J. WALKER ...
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... father was the Duke of Orleans , " Égalité , " who was never king , and could never have foreseen that his son would ascend the throne . Louis Philippe had his faults , public and private , but to call him " ignoble " is monstrous ...
... father was the Duke of Orleans , " Égalité , " who was never king , and could never have foreseen that his son would ascend the throne . Louis Philippe had his faults , public and private , but to call him " ignoble " is monstrous ...
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... father's will , engrossed in form upon a large skin of parchment . " With the word " fair , " " " the description is overdone ; omit it and then the sentence will read correctly , and as I believe Swift would have written it had he been ...
... father's will , engrossed in form upon a large skin of parchment . " With the word " fair , " " " the description is overdone ; omit it and then the sentence will read correctly , and as I believe Swift would have written it had he been ...
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... Father Pope Pius the 7th . Most Holy Father - Jean Etienne Henry ( son of the late Jean Antoine Henry , formerly Counsellor of Par- liament and Judge of the Lordship of Vivier and other Royalties and of Dlle . Marie Barbe Noel ) a ...
... Father Pope Pius the 7th . Most Holy Father - Jean Etienne Henry ( son of the late Jean Antoine Henry , formerly Counsellor of Par- liament and Judge of the Lordship of Vivier and other Royalties and of Dlle . Marie Barbe Noel ) a ...
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