Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyAt the Clarendon Press, 1891 - 413 pages |
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... OF ' SOME VERDICTS OF HISTORY REVIEWED ' WITH A FRONTISPIECE REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [ All rights reserved ] 928 R163 581 Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY SIR WALTER RALEGH.
... OF ' SOME VERDICTS OF HISTORY REVIEWED ' WITH A FRONTISPIECE REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [ All rights reserved ] 928 R163 581 Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY SIR WALTER RALEGH.
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... Historical Manu- scripts Commission testify to the vigilance with which his doings were noted . No personage in two reigns was more a centre for anecdotes and fables . They were eagerly imbibed , treasured , and circulated alike by ...
... Historical Manu- scripts Commission testify to the vigilance with which his doings were noted . No personage in two reigns was more a centre for anecdotes and fables . They were eagerly imbibed , treasured , and circulated alike by ...
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... history instead of a life . Within an author's legitimate province the perplexities are numberless and distracting . Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in the ...
... history instead of a life . Within an author's legitimate province the perplexities are numberless and distracting . Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in the ...
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... of any kind is remembered of the pair ; or could . reasonably be expected to have been remembered . History has told much more of them than of most country gentlemen and their wives . CHAP . II . --- Ralegh's CHAPTER II . IN GENEALOGY . 5.
... of any kind is remembered of the pair ; or could . reasonably be expected to have been remembered . History has told much more of them than of most country gentlemen and their wives . CHAP . II . --- Ralegh's CHAPTER II . IN GENEALOGY . 5.
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... History of the World as of the beaten army . Praising Count Lewis of Nassau for his skilful conduct of the Huguenot retreat , he remarks : Of which myself was an eye - witness , and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it ...
... History of the World as of the beaten army . Praising Count Lewis of Nassau for his skilful conduct of the Huguenot retreat , he remarks : Of which myself was an eye - witness , and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it ...
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