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Page 83
... offered him twopence to buy a halter , saying he would be hanged within the year ( as , indeed , he was ) . When Cor- nelius was arrested in the West Country , Ralegh , " one of the most learned men in England , a famous mathematician ...
... offered him twopence to buy a halter , saying he would be hanged within the year ( as , indeed , he was ) . When Cor- nelius was arrested in the West Country , Ralegh , " one of the most learned men in England , a famous mathematician ...
Page 198
... offered His Majesty , at my uncle Carew's , to carry two thou- sand men to invade him , without the King's charge . As to the other accusation made against him , that money had been offered him by Count d'Arenberg , nominally for his ...
... offered His Majesty , at my uncle Carew's , to carry two thou- sand men to invade him , without the King's charge . As to the other accusation made against him , that money had been offered him by Count d'Arenberg , nominally for his ...
Page 276
... offered the most repulsively obscene evi- dence ever offered in even a divorce court ; and her lawyers argued that her husband , though not impotent toward her sex as a whole , had been bewitched , so that he had a special and peculiar ...
... offered the most repulsively obscene evi- dence ever offered in even a divorce court ; and her lawyers argued that her husband , though not impotent toward her sex as a whole , had been bewitched , so that he had a special and peculiar ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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