Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the ElizabethansMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 - 387 pages |
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... Spain , while a main business of her western seaboard was pillage of Spain . The situation was unethical , but justifiable . Catholic Europe , regard- ing England as a third - rate Power lapsed into the sin of heresy , demanded that ...
... Spain , while a main business of her western seaboard was pillage of Spain . The situation was unethical , but justifiable . Catholic Europe , regard- ing England as a third - rate Power lapsed into the sin of heresy , demanded that ...
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... Spain , mutually hostile . To north lay Scot- land in civil dissension ; westward were Wales and Cornwall speaking foreign tongues ; further west still , Ireland in agony of hatred . And while to us the word Elizabethan calls up ...
... Spain , mutually hostile . To north lay Scot- land in civil dissension ; westward were Wales and Cornwall speaking foreign tongues ; further west still , Ireland in agony of hatred . And while to us the word Elizabethan calls up ...
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... Spain had made an offer of its Infanta for the Dauphin . ' I , too , have had the like ' , James answered carelessly . " They offer their Infanta to everybody . ' Despite this affectation of indifference he longed for a Spanish alliance ...
... Spain had made an offer of its Infanta for the Dauphin . ' I , too , have had the like ' , James answered carelessly . " They offer their Infanta to everybody . ' Despite this affectation of indifference he longed for a Spanish alliance ...
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