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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... young Walter Raleigh's early years . We have for instance Charles Kingsley writing about this daring boy , fishing in the trout brooks , or going up with his father to the Dartmoor hills to hunt with hound or horse . If he did hunt deer ...
... young Walter Raleigh's early years . We have for instance Charles Kingsley writing about this daring boy , fishing in the trout brooks , or going up with his father to the Dartmoor hills to hunt with hound or horse . If he did hunt deer ...
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... young man , already well seasoned as a soldier and sailor , could hardly be ignored . Through Gascoigne he already had a tenuous link with Leicester , and through Humphrey Gilbert another with Sir Francis Walsingham , now principal ...
... young man , already well seasoned as a soldier and sailor , could hardly be ignored . Through Gascoigne he already had a tenuous link with Leicester , and through Humphrey Gilbert another with Sir Francis Walsingham , now principal ...
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... young man had conducted himself well in the recent Low Countries campaign and had been close to Sidney , who had included him in his will : ' I give to my beloved and much honoured Lord , the Earl of Essex , my best sword . ' In some ...
... young man had conducted himself well in the recent Low Countries campaign and had been close to Sidney , who had included him in his will : ' I give to my beloved and much honoured Lord , the Earl of Essex , my best sword . ' In some ...
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