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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... certainly high and the moustache does curl , though the eyes are made to look fairly large . But the ' pig - eye ' does appear in some other portraits . Raleigh was painted many times , and as in the case of the innumerable portraits of ...
... certainly high and the moustache does curl , though the eyes are made to look fairly large . But the ' pig - eye ' does appear in some other portraits . Raleigh was painted many times , and as in the case of the innumerable portraits of ...
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... Certainly he would on occasions have accompanied his father and half - brothers on journeys by sea from Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton , and helped in the shipbuilding . No doubt he also listened to the yarns of ancient , and not so ...
... Certainly he would on occasions have accompanied his father and half - brothers on journeys by sea from Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton , and helped in the shipbuilding . No doubt he also listened to the yarns of ancient , and not so ...
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... certainly alive in 1613 , because in that year he sold Fardel to Walter Hele of Cornwood , thus ending 310 years of family ownership . LATER RALEIGHS Carew Raleigh , Sir Walter Raleigh's son who died in 1666 , had two sons . The elder ...
... certainly alive in 1613 , because in that year he sold Fardel to Walter Hele of Cornwood , thus ending 310 years of family ownership . LATER RALEIGHS Carew Raleigh , Sir Walter Raleigh's son who died in 1666 , had two sons . The elder ...
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