Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyClarendon Press, 1899 - 413 pages |
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Page 18
... enemy . At last he seems to have been reconciled to the Government . 1594 Ralegh was interceding for him against the grant of a favour at his expense to another veteran malcontent , Florence MacCarthy . Ralegh's vigour had fuller ...
... enemy . At last he seems to have been reconciled to the Government . 1594 Ralegh was interceding for him against the grant of a favour at his expense to another veteran malcontent , Florence MacCarthy . Ralegh's vigour had fuller ...
Page 19
... enemy were five or twenty to one . But he was not a workman who never complains of his tools , or an ox content to be muzzled while treading out the corn . He spoke of his soldiers as such poor and miserable creatures as their captains ...
... enemy were five or twenty to one . But he was not a workman who never complains of his tools , or an ox content to be muzzled while treading out the corn . He spoke of his soldiers as such poor and miserable creatures as their captains ...
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... , graceful , eager , slender , dark , restless , and supercilious , with a sonnet or an epigram ever ready on his lips to delight friends and sting enemies . 6 CHAP . III . The spelling of his name for ROYAL FAVOUR . 29.
... , graceful , eager , slender , dark , restless , and supercilious , with a sonnet or an epigram ever ready on his lips to delight friends and sting enemies . 6 CHAP . III . The spelling of his name for ROYAL FAVOUR . 29.
Page 58
... enemies in intimating that he was a constant mark for detraction ' and ' envyings . ' He His Unpopu- was unpopular on account alike of his demeanour , of the larity . Queen's favour , and of the monopolizing energy in the public service ...
... enemies in intimating that he was a constant mark for detraction ' and ' envyings . ' He His Unpopu- was unpopular on account alike of his demeanour , of the larity . Queen's favour , and of the monopolizing energy in the public service ...
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... enemy landed , the country was to be driven so as to leave no victuals for the invader . Ralegh separately petitioned Burleigh for cannon for Portland and Weymouth . Thence some have inferred that he was now Governor of the former . In ...
... enemy landed , the country was to be driven so as to leave no victuals for the invader . Ralegh separately petitioned Burleigh for cannon for Portland and Weymouth . Thence some have inferred that he was now Governor of the former . In ...
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