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Page 329
... letter and inclosures to Lord Carew . Next day ( March 22 , 1618 ) he steeled himself to the inevitable , and wrote Lady Ralegh this astonishingly beautiful letter : I was loth to write , because I knew not how to comfort you : and ...
... letter and inclosures to Lord Carew . Next day ( March 22 , 1618 ) he steeled himself to the inevitable , and wrote Lady Ralegh this astonishingly beautiful letter : I was loth to write , because I knew not how to comfort you : and ...
Page 344
... letter makes his attitude clear . I have printed it in full because , without its context of close unexcited narrative , his scorn for the sug- gestion that he would let down his sureties might seem rhetoric . It can- not seem rhetoric ...
... letter makes his attitude clear . I have printed it in full because , without its context of close unexcited narrative , his scorn for the sug- gestion that he would let down his sureties might seem rhetoric . It can- not seem rhetoric ...
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... letter like an invention ; for this reason I ignored them in my narrative . The publication of this book in England , however , brought me a great many letters , and revealed the tenacity with which family history and tradi- tion are ...
... letter like an invention ; for this reason I ignored them in my narrative . The publication of this book in England , however , brought me a great many letters , and revealed the tenacity with which family history and tradi- tion are ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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