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S PAIN and England for some time had been fighting out part of their first campaign in Ireland — then , as later , England's weakness , eager to welcome foreign aid . Some , especially Irish Catholic writers like Sir John Pope ...
S PAIN and England for some time had been fighting out part of their first campaign in Ireland — then , as later , England's weakness , eager to welcome foreign aid . Some , especially Irish Catholic writers like Sir John Pope ...
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Continental opinion did not rate England's resources highly but they were considered enough to turn the balance of power between France and Spain . Philip , therefore , however indignant at heresy and piracies , would not let France ...
Continental opinion did not rate England's resources highly but they were considered enough to turn the balance of power between France and Spain . Philip , therefore , however indignant at heresy and piracies , would not let France ...
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Spain to England is irreconcilable . ” Those critics who have denied his sole authorship of The History of the World , because they consider its immense background of knowledge something inconceivable in a man irregularly educated ...
Spain to England is irreconcilable . ” Those critics who have denied his sole authorship of The History of the World , because they consider its immense background of knowledge something inconceivable in a man irregularly educated ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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