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... gold and silver , heaps of billets of gold that seemed wood marked out to burn . Finally , there was nothing in his country , whereof he had not the counterfeit in gold . Yea , and they say , The Ingas had a garden of pleasure in an ...
... gold and silver , heaps of billets of gold that seemed wood marked out to burn . Finally , there was nothing in his country , whereof he had not the counterfeit in gold . Yea , and they say , The Ingas had a garden of pleasure in an ...
Page 102
... gold from Peru . That gold must have come from somewhere . The natural conclusion was that " Peru had a heart of gold , " which lay inland ; " through the veins of Guiana flowed its wealth . " We may make a present at the outset of ...
... gold from Peru . That gold must have come from somewhere . The natural conclusion was that " Peru had a heart of gold , " which lay inland ; " through the veins of Guiana flowed its wealth . " We may make a present at the outset of ...
Page 117
... gold.27 Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasingly— baiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its existence . This , although he had early come to a ...
... gold.27 Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasingly— baiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its existence . This , although he had early come to a ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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