Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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... soldiers , sailors , explorers , poets , and scholars . There was plenty of work for them all to do , and Elizabeth knew how to incite them to do it . She could put the right man in the right place , and make him do his best there . She ...
... soldiers , sailors , explorers , poets , and scholars . There was plenty of work for them all to do , and Elizabeth knew how to incite them to do it . She could put the right man in the right place , and make him do his best there . She ...
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... soldiers revenged their outrages whenever they could by worse crimes . There was no agricul- ture , no industry . All the resources of that fertile country were left undeveloped ; and the English rule was once more seriously threatened ...
... soldiers revenged their outrages whenever they could by worse crimes . There was no agricul- ture , no industry . All the resources of that fertile country were left undeveloped ; and the English rule was once more seriously threatened ...
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... soldiers had just landed . Their com- manders did all they could to stir up the Irish to make still more extensive plans of rebellion . The English were in continual fear of the arrival of a more formidable Spanish force , which they ...
... soldiers had just landed . Their com- manders did all they could to stir up the Irish to make still more extensive plans of rebellion . The English were in continual fear of the arrival of a more formidable Spanish force , which they ...
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... soldiers , which in their fury could not be helped . " It seems that no lives were saved except those of the officers of rank , who were distributed amongst Grey's favourite officers , that they might -profit by their ransoms . The ...
... soldiers , which in their fury could not be helped . " It seems that no lives were saved except those of the officers of rank , who were distributed amongst Grey's favourite officers , that they might -profit by their ransoms . The ...
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... soldier ; one of the first writers of pure and elegant English prose ; and , what was rarest in those days , a noble and single - minded man , with- out selfish ambition or personal aims . He now dared to speak out his mind to the Queen ...
... soldier ; one of the first writers of pure and elegant English prose ; and , what was rarest in those days , a noble and single - minded man , with- out selfish ambition or personal aims . He now dared to speak out his mind to the Queen ...
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