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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... reason for his own family's decline can be traced to the Cornish rising of 1497 , in which his grandfather was somehow involved . This had meant not only a heavy fine but having to let the ancestral home Fardel Manor , that still stands ...
... reason for his own family's decline can be traced to the Cornish rising of 1497 , in which his grandfather was somehow involved . This had meant not only a heavy fine but having to let the ancestral home Fardel Manor , that still stands ...
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... reason of the tornado at Brava , failed of our watering we were at this time in miserable estate not having in our ship above 7 days of water , 60 sick men , and nearly 400 leagues off the shore , and becalmed . ' Then the sky became so ...
... reason of the tornado at Brava , failed of our watering we were at this time in miserable estate not having in our ship above 7 days of water , 60 sick men , and nearly 400 leagues off the shore , and becalmed . ' Then the sky became so ...
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... reason , though the poem is still a mystery . It has often been pointed out that his life was a series of failures . He failed to keep the trust and love of the Queen , he failed to establish colonies in Virginia and Guiana , he failed ...
... reason , though the poem is still a mystery . It has often been pointed out that his life was a series of failures . He failed to keep the trust and love of the Queen , he failed to establish colonies in Virginia and Guiana , he failed ...
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