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If he disliked the person she recommended , he could be stiff in the extreme , as the case of Ralegh proved during many ... For long she refused , warning Abbot that Villiers would not prove the complaisant instrument he expected .
If he disliked the person she recommended , he could be stiff in the extreme , as the case of Ralegh proved during many ... For long she refused , warning Abbot that Villiers would not prove the complaisant instrument he expected .
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It seems that that golden mine is proved a mere chimera , an imaginary airy mine ; and indeed his Majesty had never any other ... but mountains of gold , for liberty ? . . . the Destiny . . . is like to prove a fatal destiny to him .
It seems that that golden mine is proved a mere chimera , an imaginary airy mine ; and indeed his Majesty had never any other ... but mountains of gold , for liberty ? . . . the Destiny . . . is like to prove a fatal destiny to him .
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Would Philip prove as complaisant as he had proved in the matter of Ralegh , asked someone . “ Then I would that Ralegh's head were again on his shoulders , ” said James . Dr. Tounson , in his dismissal of the duty of official ...
Would Philip prove as complaisant as he had proved in the matter of Ralegh , asked someone . “ Then I would that Ralegh's head were again on his shoulders , ” said James . Dr. Tounson , in his dismissal of the duty of official ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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