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SPAIN and England for some time had been fighting out part of their first campaign in Ireland — then , as later , England's weakness , eager to welcome foreign aid . Some , especially Irish Catholic writers like Sir John Pope - Hennessy ...
SPAIN and England for some time had been fighting out part of their first campaign in Ireland — then , as later , England's weakness , eager to welcome foreign aid . Some , especially Irish Catholic writers like Sir John Pope - Hennessy ...
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With all which so great and terrible an ostentation , they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink or take one ship , bark , pinnace , or cockboat of ours , or ever burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land .
With all which so great and terrible an ostentation , they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink or take one ship , bark , pinnace , or cockboat of ours , or ever burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land .
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He will not for one minute bate England's claim to Guiana , or his own claim that Guiana is magnificently worth having , not for gold only but for its wealth of other commodities , and its agricultural potentialities .
He will not for one minute bate England's claim to Guiana , or his own claim that Guiana is magnificently worth having , not for gold only but for its wealth of other commodities , and its agricultural potentialities .
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 818868130X, 9788188681303 |
| Length | 387 pages |
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