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... attempt was a failure , and for a time there was again peace . But in 1568 Alva offered to help the French King to put down the Hugue- nots , and war begun once more . The Huguenots were aided in the struggle by the Protestants in the ...
... attempt was a failure , and for a time there was again peace . But in 1568 Alva offered to help the French King to put down the Hugue- nots , and war begun once more . The Huguenots were aided in the struggle by the Protestants in the ...
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... attempt . How far the fleet actually got during these eight months , and what Ralegh saw on his first cruise , we have no means of knowing . For a time his mind was turned away from schemes of colo- nization to other interests . He was ...
... attempt . How far the fleet actually got during these eight months , and what Ralegh saw on his first cruise , we have no means of knowing . For a time his mind was turned away from schemes of colo- nization to other interests . He was ...
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... attempt to keep some order within the English Pale , as the district immediately round Dublin was called . Without the Pale the native chiefs , and the descendants of the Norman barons who had settled there when the island was first con ...
... attempt to keep some order within the English Pale , as the district immediately round Dublin was called . Without the Pale the native chiefs , and the descendants of the Norman barons who had settled there when the island was first con ...
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... old faith , all the more vehemently because of the attempts made to force the new religion upon them . Catholicism was identified with patriotism , and 1580 ] STATE OF IRELAND . 15 Protestantism and the 14 [ 1580 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
... old faith , all the more vehemently because of the attempts made to force the new religion upon them . Catholicism was identified with patriotism , and 1580 ] STATE OF IRELAND . 15 Protestantism and the 14 [ 1580 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
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... attempt to force Protestantism upon the Irish was laid aside ; but it was taken up again under Elizabeth , and the religious question increased the difficulties of the Irish problem . There was no religious persecu- tion ; but it suited ...
... attempt to force Protestantism upon the Irish was laid aside ; but it was taken up again under Elizabeth , and the religious question increased the difficulties of the Irish problem . There was no religious persecu- tion ; but it suited ...
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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...