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CHAPTER 11 GUIANA ' All the vessels of his home , table , and kitchen were of gold and silver , and the meanest of silver and copper for strength and hardness of the metal . He had in his wardroppe hollow statues of gold which seemed ...
CHAPTER 11 GUIANA ' All the vessels of his home , table , and kitchen were of gold and silver , and the meanest of silver and copper for strength and hardness of the metal . He had in his wardroppe hollow statues of gold which seemed ...
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so blockish and slothful , we had not feared now their power , who by their gold from thence vex and endanger all the estates of kings . The Queen understood what he wanted ; and she did not believe in Guiana .
so blockish and slothful , we had not feared now their power , who by their gold from thence vex and endanger all the estates of kings . The Queen understood what he wanted ; and she did not believe in Guiana .
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Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasinglybaiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its existence . This , although he had early come to a clear ...
Ralegh accordingly had to talk of gold , and to talk of it increasinglybaiting prospectuses with it , bidding his surveyors waste time hunting for ore that would prove its existence . This , although he had early come to a clear ...
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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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