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... 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 select from ...
... 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 select from ...
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... young Walter ; for his home was not far distant from the sea . We can picture him , as a boy , watching with delight the busy stir of the seaport towns , and listening with breathless interest to the sailors ' talk . Some time in 1566 ...
... young Walter ; for his home was not far distant from the sea . We can picture him , as a boy , watching with delight the busy stir of the seaport towns , and listening with breathless interest to the sailors ' talk . Some time in 1566 ...
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... young beauty the entire de- votion of her courtiers . There must have been much tinsel and unreality about court life when Raleigh first made acquaintance with it . The personal devotion which seemed natural enough when paid to a young ...
... young beauty the entire de- votion of her courtiers . There must have been much tinsel and unreality about court life when Raleigh first made acquaintance with it . The personal devotion which seemed natural enough when paid to a young ...
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... young nobles who vied with one another in expressing their devotion and adoration to the Queen must , when the restraint of her pre- sence was removed , have laughed together at the airs and graces of this faded beauty . Ralegh began ...
... young nobles who vied with one another in expressing their devotion and adoration to the Queen must , when the restraint of her pre- sence was removed , have laughed together at the airs and graces of this faded beauty . Ralegh began ...
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... young , brave , and accomplished ; a poet and a 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 ...
... young , brave , and accomplished ; a poet and a 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 ...
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