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... thing to the young . They are most valuable as maps on which to trace the route beforehand and show its direction , but they will seldom allure any one to take a walk . The object of this series of Historical Biographies is to try and ...
... thing to the young . They are most valuable as maps on which to trace the route beforehand and show its direction , but they will seldom allure any one to take a walk . The object of this series of Historical Biographies is to try and ...
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... they did . And this is not because he did nothing . On the contrary , he did so many things that we should find it hard to say in which part of his career he showed the greatest B eminence . But the interest attaching to him will always.
... they did . And this is not because he did nothing . On the contrary , he did so many things that we should find it hard to say in which part of his career he showed the greatest B eminence . But the interest attaching to him will always.
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... things he must have heard his elders talk ; but we know nothing of the immediate influences which affected his boyhood . He was born at the manor - house of Hayes , near Budleigh , in the east of Devon , in the year 1552. Part of the ...
... things he must have heard his elders talk ; but we know nothing of the immediate influences which affected his boyhood . He was born at the manor - house of Hayes , near Budleigh , in the east of Devon , in the year 1552. Part of the ...
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... things . He wished to make his power felt in the country by a firm and vigorous government , and at the same time to win over the turbulent chiefs , and make them adopt English civilization and order by seeing its advantages . This ...
... things . He wished to make his power felt in the country by a firm and vigorous government , and at the same time to win over the turbulent chiefs , and make them adopt English civilization and order by seeing its advantages . This ...
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... thing which Elizabeth most dreaded . Economy was her passion ; and though the result proved that her economy was most useful for the final good of England , yet at the time it often seemed to throw hindrances in the way of the wisest ...
... thing which Elizabeth most dreaded . Economy was her passion ; and though the result proved that her economy was most useful for the final good of England , yet at the time it often seemed to throw hindrances in the way of the wisest ...
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