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That ' miserable Nation ... wanted not only wisdom and virtue to purchase her own Freedom , but a competency of patience to submit to the English civility ” . ? In Hugh O'Neill , Earl of Tyrone , the Irish found a leader , one in close ...
That ' miserable Nation ... wanted not only wisdom and virtue to purchase her own Freedom , but a competency of patience to submit to the English civility ” . ? In Hugh O'Neill , Earl of Tyrone , the Irish found a leader , one in close ...
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That is why he wanted — and thought he had obtained , except that his agent had never returnedsanction to use French ports in an emergency . And that is the truth of these terrible intrigues with France . Meanwhile James was harassed ...
That is why he wanted — and thought he had obtained , except that his agent had never returnedsanction to use French ports in an emergency . And that is the truth of these terrible intrigues with France . Meanwhile James was harassed ...
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Ralegh asked if he could make up some vomits and purgatives , partly because he wanted to get poisons ( “ bad humours ' ) out of his system , but mainly because he wanted an excuse for sufficient delay to write a formal defence .
Ralegh asked if he could make up some vomits and purgatives , partly because he wanted to get poisons ( “ bad humours ' ) out of his system , but mainly because he wanted an excuse for sufficient delay to write a formal defence .
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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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