Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyClarendon Press, 1899 - 413 pages |
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... Later in the reign of Mary his wife exposed herself to similar peril , and similarly escaped . Foxe in his Acts and Monuments relates that Agnes Prest , before she was brought to the stake in 1557 at Southernhay , had been comforted in ...
... Later in the reign of Mary his wife exposed herself to similar peril , and similarly escaped . Foxe in his Acts and Monuments relates that Agnes Prest , before she was brought to the stake in 1557 at Southernhay , had been comforted in ...
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... later . If the inscription on the National Portrait Gallery picture , 1588 , aetatis suae 34 , ' and that on Zucchero's in the Dublin Gallery , ' aet . 44 , 1598 , ' be correct , his birth must have been not in 1552 , but about 1554. A ...
... later . If the inscription on the National Portrait Gallery picture , 1588 , aetatis suae 34 , ' and that on Zucchero's in the Dublin Gallery , ' aet . 44 , 1598 , ' be correct , his birth must have been not in 1552 , but about 1554. A ...
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... later . Unfortunately an interlude , put apparently by Wood several years later , separates 1568 and 1572 in Ralegh's career . His academical course cannot fill up the gap ; and it at once renders the chronology of the Athenae ...
... later . Unfortunately an interlude , put apparently by Wood several years later , separates 1568 and 1572 in Ralegh's career . His academical course cannot fill up the gap ; and it at once renders the chronology of the Athenae ...
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... shorn of the glamour of religious enthusiasm . He regarded it simply as a civil war , by which ' the condition of no nation , ' as he wrote later , was ever 6 bettered . ' Of one of its prime authors , ΙΟ SIR WALTER RALEGH .
... shorn of the glamour of religious enthusiasm . He regarded it simply as a civil war , by which ' the condition of no nation , ' as he wrote later , was ever 6 bettered . ' Of one of its prime authors , ΙΟ SIR WALTER RALEGH .
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... later years that he had read no law , as large a disclaimer might have been conscientiously made by many students at Inns of Court beside him . But it is evident that he intended to follow the profession of the law , and took the 12 SIR ...
... later years that he had read no law , as large a disclaimer might have been conscientiously made by many students at Inns of Court beside him . But it is evident that he intended to follow the profession of the law , and took the 12 SIR ...
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