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Page 155
And , if a small matter may defend it , it were pity to cast it down , having cost Her Majesty's father , brother , and sister -- without her own charge — 20,000 marks the erecting.5 He at once took up the completion of another fort ...
And , if a small matter may defend it , it were pity to cast it down , having cost Her Majesty's father , brother , and sister -- without her own charge — 20,000 marks the erecting.5 He at once took up the completion of another fort ...
Page 183
I discovered , myself , the richest part of all his Indies : I have planted in his territories : I offered His Majesty , at my uncle Carew's , to carry two thousand men to invade him , without the King's charge .
I discovered , myself , the richest part of all his Indies : I have planted in his territories : I offered His Majesty , at my uncle Carew's , to carry two thousand men to invade him , without the King's charge .
Page 247
And better it were ( so far as my weak judgment can discern ) that the Spaniards should give cause of quarrel to us , than we to them . How could statements be more explicit ? The King is to take no risk , to be at no charges ; all is ...
And better it were ( so far as my weak judgment can discern ) that the Spaniards should give cause of quarrel to us , than we to them . How could statements be more explicit ? The King is to take no risk , to be at no charges ; all is ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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