Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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... possible to bring together facts of social life in a clearer way , and to reproduce a more vivid picture of particular times , than is possible in a historical handbook . By reading short biographies a few clear ideas may be formed in ...
... possible to bring together facts of social life in a clearer way , and to reproduce a more vivid picture of particular times , than is possible in a historical handbook . By reading short biographies a few clear ideas may be formed in ...
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... to the future , and dis- cerned the way in which his country could grow in wealth and power beyond what any one at that time dreamed of as possible . commerce . INTRODUCTION . 3 Ralegh's mind delighted in far 2 INTRODUCTION .
... to the future , and dis- cerned the way in which his country could grow in wealth and power beyond what any one at that time dreamed of as possible . commerce . INTRODUCTION . 3 Ralegh's mind delighted in far 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... possible seemed the first thing needful . Ralegh was one of the captains who accom- panied Lord Grey on his march to Smerwick . It was a wild , stormy autumn ; but the severe weather and the hardships of the march did not destroy the ...
... possible seemed the first thing needful . Ralegh was one of the captains who accom- panied Lord Grey on his march to Smerwick . It was a wild , stormy autumn ; but the severe weather and the hardships of the march did not destroy the ...
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... 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 , stirring up men's minds to disobedience and ...
... 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 , stirring up men's minds to disobedience and ...
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... possible . For some time the energies of English explorers had been devoted to the discovery of a north- western passage to Cathay . About the wealth of this country of Cathay many wonderful stories had been told since the thirteenth ...
... possible . For some time the energies of English explorers had been devoted to the discovery of a north- western passage to Cathay . About the wealth of this country of Cathay many wonderful stories had been told since the thirteenth ...
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