Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the ElizabethansMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 - 387 pages |
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... prove the chief result of these earliest Virginian enterprises , the habit of smoking , now introduced to England ... proved a sportswoman , and turned the loss of the wager off with a dry jest : what was wanting in the prime weight ...
... prove the chief result of these earliest Virginian enterprises , the habit of smoking , now introduced to England ... proved a sportswoman , and turned the loss of the wager off with a dry jest : what was wanting in the prime weight ...
Page 286
... proved disappointing , then you shall bring but a basket or two , to satisfy His Majesty that my design was not imaginary , but true , though not answerable to His Majesty's expectations . If , as rumour said , the river was guarded by ...
... proved disappointing , then you shall bring but a basket or two , to satisfy His Majesty that my design was not imaginary , but true , though not answerable to His Majesty's expectations . If , as rumour said , the river was guarded by ...
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... proved a mere chimera , an imaginary airy mine ; and indeed his Majesty had never any other conceipt of it . But ... prove a fatal destiny to him .'— JAMES HOWELL to Sir James Crofts , June 21 , 1618 . ' You give me an unanswerable ...
... proved a mere chimera , an imaginary airy mine ; and indeed his Majesty had never any other conceipt of it . But ... prove a fatal destiny to him .'— JAMES HOWELL to Sir James Crofts , June 21 , 1618 . ' You give me an unanswerable ...
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