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But it is certain that his errand brought him before Elizabeth , whose ear " he got in a trice " : she began to be taken with his elocution , and loved to hear his reasons to her demands ; and the truth is , she took him for a kind of ...
But it is certain that his errand brought him before Elizabeth , whose ear " he got in a trice " : she began to be taken with his elocution , and loved to hear his reasons to her demands ; and the truth is , she took him for a kind of ...
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Escape , however , did not suit with his magnificence of valor , which was of that uncomfortable kind that brings a commander fame but too often leaves those under his command in a premature grave : Sir Richard utterly refused to turn ...
Escape , however , did not suit with his magnificence of valor , which was of that uncomfortable kind that brings a commander fame but too often leaves those under his command in a premature grave : Sir Richard utterly refused to turn ...
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You may remember that , after the death of my father , you desired the having of some cosmographical maps and books of that kind , concerning discoveries of the Indies and Western parts . I allowed you a search ; but if , under colour ...
You may remember that , after the death of my father , you desired the having of some cosmographical maps and books of that kind , concerning discoveries of the Indies and Western parts . I allowed you a search ; but if , under colour ...
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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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