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... JAMES II . From A.D. 1485 to A.D. 1688 . PERIOD III . Price 7s . 6d . CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY : WILLIAM AND MARY , TO THE Present TIME . From A.D. 1689 to A.D. 1837 . About five years ago , after a meeting of a considerable number of ...
... JAMES II . From A.D. 1485 to A.D. 1688 . PERIOD III . Price 7s . 6d . CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY : WILLIAM AND MARY , TO THE Present TIME . From A.D. 1689 to A.D. 1837 . About five years ago , after a meeting of a considerable number of ...
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... Charles and the Spanish Match . Anyone anxious to know more of the history of James I. cannot do better than study Mr. Gardiner's excellent and most interesting books . Ralegh's own account of his voyages may be found in full either in.
... Charles and the Spanish Match . Anyone anxious to know more of the history of James I. cannot do better than study Mr. Gardiner's excellent and most interesting books . Ralegh's own account of his voyages may be found in full either in.
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... JAMES I. 139 CHAPTER XI . 1 CONSPIRACIES AGAINST JAMES I. 154 1 CHAPTER XII . 17 RALEGH'S TRIAL AT WINCHESTER 164 CHAPTER XIII . 4 RALEGH IN THE TOWER 179 CHAPTER XIV . THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD 201 CHAPTER XV . RALEGH'S LAST VOYAGE 212 ...
... JAMES I. 139 CHAPTER XI . 1 CONSPIRACIES AGAINST JAMES I. 154 1 CHAPTER XII . 17 RALEGH'S TRIAL AT WINCHESTER 164 CHAPTER XIII . 4 RALEGH IN THE TOWER 179 CHAPTER XIV . THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD 201 CHAPTER XV . RALEGH'S LAST VOYAGE 212 ...
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... JAMES I. CHAPTER XI . CONSPIRACIES AGAINST JAMES I. 154 CHAPTER XII . RALEGH'S TRIAL AT WINCHESTER 164 CHAPTER XIII . RALEGH IN THE TOWER 179 CHAPTER XIV . THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD 201 CHAPTER XV . RALEGH'S LAST VOYAGE 212 CHAPTER XVI ...
... JAMES I. CHAPTER XI . CONSPIRACIES AGAINST JAMES I. 154 CHAPTER XII . RALEGH'S TRIAL AT WINCHESTER 164 CHAPTER XIII . RALEGH IN THE TOWER 179 CHAPTER XIV . THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD 201 CHAPTER XV . RALEGH'S LAST VOYAGE 212 CHAPTER XVI ...
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... James , brother of the Earl of Desmond , who had been captured in a chance skirmish . In August , 1580 , a new deputy , Lord Grey de Wilton , arrived in Dublin . He was a stern and determined C man , and was by no means likely to shrink.
... James , brother of the Earl of Desmond , who had been captured in a chance skirmish . In August , 1580 , a new deputy , Lord Grey de Wilton , arrived in Dublin . He was a stern and determined C man , and was by no means likely to shrink.
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Page 92 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : (Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak), — such was my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 57 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 160 - Your words cannot condemn me ; my innocency is my defence. Prove one of these things wherewith you have charged me, and I will confess the whole indictment, and that I am the horriblest traitor that ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand thousand torments. " Attorney. Nay, I will prove all : thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart.
Page 245 - Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 71 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Page 116 - Table;* her Bosom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were small, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was stately, her Manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 117 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 56 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Page 116 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...