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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... true , as has since been said , that she devoted her wiles to the purpose for which most English battles in Europe were fought , from Crécy to Waterloo ? She could lose her temper , and she could weep , but as always she had to wear a ...
... true , as has since been said , that she devoted her wiles to the purpose for which most English battles in Europe were fought , from Crécy to Waterloo ? She could lose her temper , and she could weep , but as always she had to wear a ...
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... true life and true light , keep thee and thine , and have mercy on me , and teach me to forgive my persecutors and accusers ; and send us to meet in His glorious kingdom . My dear wife , farewell . Bless my poor boy . Pray * Bess had ...
... true life and true light , keep thee and thine , and have mercy on me , and teach me to forgive my persecutors and accusers ; and send us to meet in His glorious kingdom . My dear wife , farewell . Bless my poor boy . Pray * Bess had ...
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... True it is that as many things succeeded both against reason and against our best endeavours , so it is most true that men are the causes of their own miseries , as I was of mine . " 26 The Tower , Rowse had said , was the ' best place ...
... True it is that as many things succeeded both against reason and against our best endeavours , so it is most true that men are the causes of their own miseries , as I was of mine . " 26 The Tower , Rowse had said , was the ' best place ...
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