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He reëmerges into clear light when his and Gilbert's fleet was ready . Gilbert had been living unemployed , at Limehouse , London , for five years , during which he worked out his scheme , along with a modification that would make it ...
He reëmerges into clear light when his and Gilbert's fleet was ready . Gilbert had been living unemployed , at Limehouse , London , for five years , during which he worked out his scheme , along with a modification that would make it ...
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A fleet should also be sent to capture Ralegh's ; the latter was so small that this would be an easy job . Every prisoner should be put to death , except the Admiral and his officers , and these should be brought to Seville for public ...
A fleet should also be sent to capture Ralegh's ; the latter was so small that this would be an easy job . Every prisoner should be put to death , except the Admiral and his officers , and these should be brought to Seville for public ...
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That Ralegh would have thought it no sin to seize the Plate Fleet is certain . He differed by a chasm from the Court and Government , assessing Spain's power as what he knew by proof it was , something English seamen need not fear : and ...
That Ralegh would have thought it no sin to seize the Plate Fleet is certain . He differed by a chasm from the Court and Government , assessing Spain's power as what he knew by proof it was , something English seamen need not fear : and ...
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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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