Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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... Queen ; and in the dangers which threatened Queen and people from without , they learnt a new sense of national unity . To study Ralegh's character is to study the tendencies of his age . There was no field of activity then open to men ...
... Queen ; and in the dangers which threatened Queen and people from without , they learnt a new sense of national unity . To study Ralegh's character is to study the tendencies of his age . There was no field of activity then open to men ...
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... Queen Mary , of the religious persecu- tions , of the new hope which filled men's minds . at the accession of Elizabeth . Of these and such like things he must have heard his elders talk ; but we know nothing of the immediate influences ...
... Queen Mary , of the religious persecu- tions , of the new hope which filled men's minds . at the accession of Elizabeth . Of these and such like things he must have heard his elders talk ; but we know nothing of the immediate influences ...
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... Queen and her courtiers . Ralegh himself came to Oxford just too late to see the Queen ; but no doubt he found the students still talking of her gracious behaviour , and of the kind words with which she had bidden them devote themselves ...
... Queen and her courtiers . Ralegh himself came to Oxford just too late to see the Queen ; but no doubt he found the students still talking of her gracious behaviour , and of the kind words with which she had bidden them devote themselves ...
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... the struggle by the Protestants in the Netherlands and in Ger- many , and Queen Elizabeth sent them money . Elizabeth would not just then venture on open 1576 ] war . WAR IN FRANCE . 9 Her 8 [ 1569 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
... the struggle by the Protestants in the Netherlands and in Ger- many , and Queen Elizabeth sent them money . Elizabeth would not just then venture on open 1576 ] war . WAR IN FRANCE . 9 Her 8 [ 1569 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
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... Queen of Scots , who had , in May , 1568 , fled over the border to seek safety in England from her own subjects . Elizabeth stood alone as the champion of Protestantism , and her first care necessarily was not to endanger her own ...
... Queen of Scots , who had , in May , 1568 , fled over the border to seek safety in England from her own subjects . Elizabeth stood alone as the champion of Protestantism , and her first care necessarily was not to endanger her own ...
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