Sir Walter RaleighYou have lived like a star at which the world has gazed, said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. He was fortune's tennis ball, said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. |
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... Guiana - now mostly the equiva- lent of Venezuela and what was British Guiana - was still unexplored ; its name was thought to have been derived from an Indian greeting , Uyana ! Uyana ! And there had been further encouragement from ...
... Guiana - now mostly the equiva- lent of Venezuela and what was British Guiana - was still unexplored ; its name was thought to have been derived from an Indian greeting , Uyana ! Uyana ! And there had been further encouragement from ...
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... Guiana . ' The shining glory of this conquest will eclipse all those so far extended beams of the Spanish nation ... whatsoever prince shall possess it shall be the great- est ' . In Guiana there were more rich and beautiful cities ...
... Guiana . ' The shining glory of this conquest will eclipse all those so far extended beams of the Spanish nation ... whatsoever prince shall possess it shall be the great- est ' . In Guiana there were more rich and beautiful cities ...
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... Guiana and Nova Regnia , and of the river Orinoco and Panama ; a sample of Guiana ore , with a description of it ; four silver mine samples . All of which shows that Raleigh had not lost his love of jewellery ; but some of the things ...
... Guiana and Nova Regnia , and of the river Orinoco and Panama ; a sample of Guiana ore , with a description of it ; four silver mine samples . All of which shows that Raleigh had not lost his love of jewellery ; but some of the things ...
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