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They could find no means of restoring peace except turning the rich land into a wilderness , and rooting out by famine those whom the soldier or the hangman had not overtaken . “ No governor shall do any good " here , " wrote an English ...
They could find no means of restoring peace except turning the rich land into a wilderness , and rooting out by famine those whom the soldier or the hangman had not overtaken . “ No governor shall do any good " here , " wrote an English ...
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He was expected to do very hard tasks with insufficient means , and to receive more blame where he failed than thanks where he succeeded . He had every one , English and Irish , against him in Ireland , and no one for him in England .
He was expected to do very hard tasks with insufficient means , and to receive more blame where he failed than thanks where he succeeded . He had every one , English and Irish , against him in Ireland , and no one for him in England .
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“ You might better have resisted than you did , considering the many defensible houses and castles possessed by the undertakers , who , for aught we can hear , were by no means comforted nor supported by you , but either from lack of ...
“ You might better have resisted than you did , considering the many defensible houses and castles possessed by the undertakers , who , for aught we can hear , were by no means comforted nor supported by you , but either from lack of ...
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| Title | Spenser British Writers Series The Gale library of lives and letters. British writers series “The” Gale Library of lives and letters |
| Author | Richard William Church |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1968 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2017 |
| ISBN | 0810330571, 9780810330573 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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