An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland, Volume 2 |
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... hope to merit any grace from God ; but when I had once begun to visite forraigne parts , I was so stirred up by emulation and curiosity , as I did never behold any without a kind of sweete envy , who in this kind had dared more then my ...
... hope to merit any grace from God ; but when I had once begun to visite forraigne parts , I was so stirred up by emulation and curiosity , as I did never behold any without a kind of sweete envy , who in this kind had dared more then my ...
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... Hope of his Countrey , the Life of the Church , the strength of both . These verses added : Quem formidabant , cui Dona , Tributa ferebant , Egipti Cæsar , Dan , ac homicida Damascus . Whom Egypt , Dan , Damascus homicide , With gifts ...
... Hope of his Countrey , the Life of the Church , the strength of both . These verses added : Quem formidabant , cui Dona , Tributa ferebant , Egipti Cæsar , Dan , ac homicida Damascus . Whom Egypt , Dan , Damascus homicide , With gifts ...
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... hope of this vaine merit , since it was not easie to find a man who would carry an old woman , and beare her charges so long a journey . The stone of unction in the Church , is common to all the nine Christian sects , neither doe the ...
... hope of this vaine merit , since it was not easie to find a man who would carry an old woman , and beare her charges so long a journey . The stone of unction in the Church , is common to all the nine Christian sects , neither doe the ...
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... hope of this booty made him die sooner , but I am sure he lived very few daies after . And give me leave to tell the truth , these Friars either to gaine his money , ( which was due to the Great Turke ) , or for feare that inquisition ...
... hope of this booty made him die sooner , but I am sure he lived very few daies after . And give me leave to tell the truth , these Friars either to gaine his money , ( which was due to the Great Turke ) , or for feare that inquisition ...
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... hope and feare , at last we came safe thither , and there hid our selves til our consorts should returne , who after an howers space returning , told us , that the chiefe of the Caravan , being the cause of the fire making , had paid ...
... hope and feare , at last we came safe thither , and there hid our selves til our consorts should returne , who after an howers space returning , told us , that the chiefe of the Caravan , being the cause of the fire making , had paid ...
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Page 243 - Raleigh (I will forbear others for their places' sake) should have such credit and favour with your majesty, when they wish the ill success of your majesty's most important action, the decay of your greatest strength, and the destruction of your faithfullest servants.
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Page 261 - The crown of his head was in his latter days something bald, as the fore part naturelly curled; he onely used the barber for his head; for the haire on his chin (growing slowly) and that on his cheeks and throat, he used almost daily to cut it with his sizers, keeping it so low with his owne hand that it could scarce bee discerned, as likewise himselfe kept the haire of his upper lippe something short, onely suffering that under his nether...
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