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At this juncture Ralegh's conduct was incredibly unwise . Under Robert Cecil's betrayal of him lurks a wounded feeling . He complains of ' ingratitude ' , which has puzzled biographers . But if the reader will look back , there is ...
At this juncture Ralegh's conduct was incredibly unwise . Under Robert Cecil's betrayal of him lurks a wounded feeling . He complains of ' ingratitude ' , which has puzzled biographers . But if the reader will look back , there is ...
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But it was no time for the holiday mood in which Cobham and Ralegh now met at Durham House , and now fitted over to France , for a ' look - see ' at war again at close quarters : : finding the Queen is so resolved to have Peace ( if ...
But it was no time for the holiday mood in which Cobham and Ralegh now met at Durham House , and now fitted over to France , for a ' look - see ' at war again at close quarters : : finding the Queen is so resolved to have Peace ( if ...
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... what can we otherwise look for , but to be laughed at by our enemies , for having discovered for them , at our charge , a mine of gold which themselves , having inhabited upon the same river twenty year , neither by tormenting ...
... what can we otherwise look for , but to be laughed at by our enemies , for having discovered for them , at our charge , a mine of gold which themselves , having inhabited upon the same river twenty year , neither by tormenting ...
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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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