Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the ElizabethansMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 - 387 pages |
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Page 290
... taken to be that of an unscrupulous buc- caneer , who knows he has broken the law of nations and must fly if he is to escape the gallows . On this interpretation , his commendation of those who have done notable service must be taken as ...
... taken to be that of an unscrupulous buc- caneer , who knows he has broken the law of nations and must fly if he is to escape the gallows . On this interpretation , his commendation of those who have done notable service must be taken as ...
Page 334
... taken , without spoil ; if I forbare all parts of the Spanish Indies , wherein I might have taken twenty of their towns on the sea - coast , and did only follow the enterprise which I undertook , for Guiana - where without any direction ...
... taken , without spoil ; if I forbare all parts of the Spanish Indies , wherein I might have taken twenty of their towns on the sea - coast , and did only follow the enterprise which I undertook , for Guiana - where without any direction ...
Page 338
... taken on his old sentence . The Council accepted his request that he be beheaded , and promised to be responsible for its being granted . Yet one more formality had to be endured . He was waked early , October 28 , and taken to the ...
... taken on his old sentence . The Council accepted his request that he be beheaded , and promised to be responsible for its being granted . Yet one more formality had to be endured . He was waked early , October 28 , and taken to the ...
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