Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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Page 10
... Spaniards and the acquisition of plunder . Gilbert saw what England might gain by planting colonies in some of those wondrously productive and fertile lands which he had visited on the other side of the Atlantic , and how new openings ...
... Spaniards and the acquisition of plunder . Gilbert saw what England might gain by planting colonies in some of those wondrously productive and fertile lands which he had visited on the other side of the Atlantic , and how new openings ...
Page 19
... Spaniards in those days . It may seem hardly possible to find excuses for such cruelty . But we must re- member how religious questions had irritated men's minds ; how Jesuits in disguise plotted and schemed in England and Ireland ...
... Spaniards in those days . It may seem hardly possible to find excuses for such cruelty . But we must re- member how religious questions had irritated men's minds ; how Jesuits in disguise plotted and schemed in England and Ireland ...
Page 38
... Spaniards in more southern regions . But Cabot was convinced , as his father had been , that it would be possible to discover a new north- western passage to Cathay , and so open up a trade with that fabled land . His efforts to ...
... Spaniards in more southern regions . But Cabot was convinced , as his father had been , that it would be possible to discover a new north- western passage to Cathay , and so open up a trade with that fabled land . His efforts to ...
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... Spaniards . Elizabeth had difficulty in keeping the animosity of her subjects within bounds . She always hoped to prevent an open rupture with Spain , or at least to put it off as long as possible , that in the meanwhile she might gain ...
... Spaniards . Elizabeth had difficulty in keeping the animosity of her subjects within bounds . She always hoped to prevent an open rupture with Spain , or at least to put it off as long as possible , that in the meanwhile she might gain ...
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... Spaniards , who massacred 200 men , women , and children . It was probably when engaged in the civil wars in France that Ralegh heard tell of the wondrous fertility of these lands ; and when he matured his schemes of founding a colony ...
... Spaniards , who massacred 200 men , women , and children . It was probably when engaged in the civil wars in France that Ralegh heard tell of the wondrous fertility of these lands ; and when he matured his schemes of founding a colony ...
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