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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... especially if the mortals happened to be aristo- crats . He did not care what others thought of him so long as he kept the affection and trust of the Queen , from whom all power and wealth derived . Aubrey added that his moustache ...
... especially if the mortals happened to be aristo- crats . He did not care what others thought of him so long as he kept the affection and trust of the Queen , from whom all power and wealth derived . Aubrey added that his moustache ...
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... especially in the South - West , and that certainly would have included Raleigh . At the same time the third war of religion had begun in France , inaugurating a period of gruesome atrocities . La Rochelle was the Huguenot capital , and ...
... especially in the South - West , and that certainly would have included Raleigh . At the same time the third war of religion had begun in France , inaugurating a period of gruesome atrocities . La Rochelle was the Huguenot capital , and ...
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... especially war . The main framework , as he was to explain in his preface , was the idea of Providential history - the traditional medieval view , that history is a record of God's will : ' God , who is the author of all our tragedies ...
... especially war . The main framework , as he was to explain in his preface , was the idea of Providential history - the traditional medieval view , that history is a record of God's will : ' God , who is the author of all our tragedies ...
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