Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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... allowed her subjects on their own responsibility to fit out ships to attack Philip II . in his own waters , plunder his vessels and even his colonies , and bring home from the Spanish Main great store of booty . She did not interfere to ...
... allowed her subjects on their own responsibility to fit out ships to attack Philip II . in his own waters , plunder his vessels and even his colonies , and bring home from the Spanish Main great store of booty . She did not interfere to ...
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... allowed him much . influence in her councils . She even forgave him what she regarded as an insult from any one of her courtiers , and what in him was doubly bitter , his marriage with another . Leicester had twice married ; first Amy ...
... allowed him much . influence in her councils . She even forgave him what she regarded as an insult from any one of her courtiers , and what in him was doubly bitter , his marriage with another . Leicester had twice married ; first Amy ...
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... allowed herself to be influenced only by the sense of their fitness for the post to which they were to be appointed . She rewarded her favourites in a manner more harmful to the country at large than to her own adminis- tration or to ...
... allowed herself to be influenced only by the sense of their fitness for the post to which they were to be appointed . She rewarded her favourites in a manner more harmful to the country at large than to her own adminis- tration or to ...
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... allowed him to entertain her on board at a splendid banquet , and on that occasion knighted him for his great prowess . It is said , that of the treasure brought home by Drake , he was allowed to keep £ 10,000 for himself , whilst ...
... allowed him to entertain her on board at a splendid banquet , and on that occasion knighted him for his great prowess . It is said , that of the treasure brought home by Drake , he was allowed to keep £ 10,000 for himself , whilst ...
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... allowed her subjects to help to fill her treasuries with Spanish gold , so that she might have the means to prepare for the struggle if it should come . We have seen how some of the English seamen were animated by a desire to discover a ...
... allowed her subjects to help to fill her treasuries with Spanish gold , so that she might have the means to prepare for the struggle if it should come . We have seen how some of the English seamen were animated by a desire to discover a ...
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