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... seemed giants , and the figures in proportion and bigness of all the beasts , birds , trees and herbs , that the earth bringeth forth , and of all the fishes that the sea or waters of his kingdom breedeth . He had also ropes , budgets ...
... seemed giants , and the figures in proportion and bigness of all the beasts , birds , trees and herbs , that the earth bringeth forth , and of all the fishes that the sea or waters of his kingdom breedeth . He had also ropes , budgets ...
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... seemed too frightening when a ship joined them with Ral- egh's message that the Spanish Admiral had sailed out to convoy it home . Halting and vacillating , Essex sailed " for the island of Flowers . " 15 Here , ten days later , Ralegh ...
... seemed too frightening when a ship joined them with Ral- egh's message that the Spanish Admiral had sailed out to convoy it home . Halting and vacillating , Essex sailed " for the island of Flowers . " 15 Here , ten days later , Ralegh ...
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... seemed humiliatingly superfluous : When I began to encourage him against the fear of death , he seemed to make so light of it that I wondered at him ; and when I told him that the dear servants of God , in better causes than his , had ...
... seemed humiliatingly superfluous : When I began to encourage him against the fear of death , he seemed to make so light of it that I wondered at him ; and when I told him that the dear servants of God , in better causes than his , had ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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