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Page 80
... taken too seriously , they are to be taken seriously ; and the mind which cast them off was always serious , with a deep imaginative melancholy . Every writer points out that Ralegh lived in an age greedy for power and money ( as if any ...
... taken too seriously , they are to be taken seriously ; and the mind which cast them off was always serious , with a deep imaginative melancholy . Every writer points out that Ralegh lived in an age greedy for power and money ( as if any ...
Page 361
... taken , without spoil ; if I forbare all parts of the Spanish Indies , wherein I might have taken twenty of their towns on the sea - coast , and did only follow the enterprise which I undertook , for Guiana - where without any direction ...
... taken , without spoil ; if I forbare all parts of the Spanish Indies , wherein I might have taken twenty of their towns on the sea - coast , and did only follow the enterprise which I undertook , for Guiana - where without any direction ...
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... taken on his old sentence . The Council accepted his request that he be beheaded , and promised to be responsible for its being granted . Yet one more formality had to be endured . He was waked early , October 28 , and taken to the ...
... taken on his old sentence . The Council accepted his request that he be beheaded , and promised to be responsible for its being granted . Yet one more formality had to be endured . He was waked early , October 28 , and taken to the ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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