Book/Printed Material Ralegh; his exploits and voyages,
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Image 1 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 2 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, Book K^-=r-^
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 3 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 4 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 5 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
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Image 6 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, Balegh s Serva t attempts to put out the Fire. Page 60.
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 7 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, To UNO FOLKS Heroes of History RALEGH HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES BY GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE AUTHOR OF VASCO DA GAMA PIZARRO MAGELLAN MARCO POLO ETC. Il.LirSTRAT ED^ BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 8 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, Copyright, 1881, By Lee and ShepabDs AU Rights Reserved.
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 9 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, PREFACE. Sir Walter Ralegh was famous in several fields of action. His younfrer manhood was spent in the midst of the most briUiant royal court which English palaces ever held. Later, he...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 10 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, PREFACE. with the great literary lights of the Elizabethan age. Chivalrous in feeling, brave in action, court- ly in manner, handsome in person, a faithful hus- band, a devoted father, a valiant...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 11 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Ralegh s Boyhood and Youth CHAPTER IT- Ralegh a Soldier i6 CHAPTEP JIT Ralegh a Courtier 32 CHAPTER IV. Ralegh as a Colonizer 48 CHAPTER V. The Invincible Armada...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 12 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, CONTENTS. CHAPTER XI. The Essex Conspiracy 165 CHAPTER XII. Ralegh Charged with Treason 182 CHAPTER XIII. Tried for his Life 195 CHAPTER XIV. Twelve Years in thil Lower 212 CHAPTER XV. Ralegh...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 13 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, ralegh: HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. CHAPTER I. RALEGH S BOYHOOD AND YOUTH. N the south of England, bordering upon the British Channel, lies the pleasant and picturesque county of Devon. The gentle...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 14 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 2 RALEGH eastern end of the county. The Otter runs through a country of prosperous farms and ancient settle- ments and along its banks nestle many cottages and hamlets centuries old. Close...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 15 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 3 would proudly tell you that it was in this room that the famous Sir Walter Ralegh was born. A short distance from the house, too, stands a...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 16 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 4 RALEGH therefore little heard of in history further than that he was a man of gentle manners and an amiable nature, we hear nothing of him. His wife, however, was a...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 17 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 5 year that Queen Mary ascended the throne of Britain 1552 was named after his father, Wal- ter Ralegh. In his very babyhood, this boy was noted through...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 18 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 6 RALEGH recreations and trials of physical strength, and a fondness for the excitements and dangers of the chase. As soon as he could mount a horse, he was seen galloping about...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 19 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. dell and down, and through the cool thickets, rejoicing mightily when at last the victim of the chase was brought down, and the hunting-horns, echoing from hill to...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 20 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, S RALEGH Ralegh. Although still young, Humphrey and Adrian had been much abroad in the world, and had seen some military service. Both of them were fond of dangerous expeditions, and were...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 21 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 9 So spirited and imaginative a boy was not likely to neglect the hardy pleasures of the seaside, near which he lived. It was but a short ride...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 22 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, lO RALEGH and anon, made their appearance at the cottages on the coast near Hayes. These rough men took a fancy to the bright-eyed, inquisitive lad, who plied them with innumerable questions,...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 23 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. II fancied himself the future hero of similar ex- ploits. The English had grown very jealous of the success of the Spaniards and Portuguese. They prided themselves on...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 24 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 1 2 RALEGH and was eager to take his part in the fierce rivalry and hostility which now raged between Spain and England. His blood boiled when he heard of an English...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 25 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 13 before he knew it, the day arrived when he was to leave his pretty rustic home on the banks of the Otter, and to go up to...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 26 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 14 RALEGH stone pavement and Walter watched the students in their hats and gowns, as they passed to and fro, with great interest. He soon found himself the centre of a large...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 27 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 1 5 college life, which shows that even thus early his soldierly qualities were well developed. Whilst Ralegh was a scholar at Oxford, relates Lord Bacon, there was...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 28 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 1 6 RALEGH CHAPTER II. RALEGH A SOLDIER. T happened that, at this time, a bitter conflict was going on in France, between the persecuted Huguenots, or Protestants, and the cruel government...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 29 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 1 7 not side; but she connived at the expeditions which were formed by spirited young Englishmen, and which repaired to France to join their arms with those...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 30 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, l8 RALEGH the young cavaliers who were to be his comrades in the approaching voyage and adventures. He hastened to make every necessary preparation and ere long found himself fully equipped with...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 31 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. I9 Englishmen, who formed in line and marched through the crowd to their quarters in the fortress, their embroidered banner waving in the sunlight at their head. After...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 32 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 20 RALEGH t comrades. But we may well believe that they proved themselves valiant and sturdy, and that they shared the laurels of the self-devoted Hugue- nots in their struggle for their...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 33 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 21 enter by any ladder or engine till, at last, by cer- tain bundles of straw, let down by an iron chain, and a weighty stone in the...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 34 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 22 RALEGH I Such an opportunity soon occurred. A war broke out in Holland, where the proud Don John of Austria, the brother of the King of Spain, was striving to subject...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 35 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 23 returning once more to London, he found a new and very different sort of adventure ready for his undertaking. His half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, whose ambition...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 36 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 24 RALEGH various arrangements and management of the sails and the discipline which was imposed on the crew. As his own duties were light, he spent much of his time while on...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 37 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 2$ his only course was to put on all sail and get away from them. In this he succeeded but only after several of his ships had been...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 38 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 26 RALEGH from shedding the blood of a people who were struggling for their liberty. I disdain this charge, he said to the Earl of Leicester, as much as to keep sheep....
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 39 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, HIS EXPLOITS AND VOYAGES. 2*J Is it SO returned the captain. It shall now serve for an Irish rebel. And he forthwith ordered the man to be hung with his own rope....
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902
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Image 40 of Ralegh; his exploits and voyages, 28 RALEGH cavalier held them at bay, until his soldiers could come up and drive them back. This heroic deed was soon known throughout Ireland, and gave Ralegh a high reputation for...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1902