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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... town * of some 600 or 700 houses and a cathedral ( whose ruins are still to be seen ) , was in a deep fertile canyon ... town of Santo Domingo at Hispaniola . The harbour had been blocked , so he approached the town by a land route ...
... town * of some 600 or 700 houses and a cathedral ( whose ruins are still to be seen ) , was in a deep fertile canyon ... town of Santo Domingo at Hispaniola . The harbour had been blocked , so he approached the town by a land route ...
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... town was Teguire , seven miles inland , well away from pirates and other marauders – at least , so the inhabitants hoped . Raleigh waited , spending the day ' training and mustering our companies on the sea - shore ' , which could not ...
... town was Teguire , seven miles inland , well away from pirates and other marauders – at least , so the inhabitants hoped . Raleigh waited , spending the day ' training and mustering our companies on the sea - shore ' , which could not ...
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... town . And indeed they were fired on by two cannons . - This was Keymis's first mistake . When he had last seen San Thomé it had been a makeshift place , ' a town of stakes , covered with leaves of trees ' . Now it was walled , and on a ...
... town . And indeed they were fired on by two cannons . - This was Keymis's first mistake . When he had last seen San Thomé it had been a makeshift place , ' a town of stakes , covered with leaves of trees ' . Now it was walled , and on a ...
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