Imaginative Biography
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217822008
Paperback|9780217822008
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834. Excerpt: ... SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Who is there that will not read with a heart first expanding with admiration, and afterwards wrung with resentment and sorrow, the story of Raleigh, though a thousand times told? Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552, at Hayes Farm, in the parish of Budley, in that part of Devonshire which borders eastward on the sea, near the spot where the Ottery discharges itself into the British chan VOL II. B nel. He was the fourth son, and the second by a third wife, of Walter Raleigh of Fardel, in the parish of Cornwood, near Plymouth, Esq. His father was of an ancient knightly family, and his mother was Catharine, daughter of Sir Philip Champernoun, of Modbury, in the same county, relict of Otho Gilbert, of Compton, the father by her of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the celebrated navigator. We are anxious to search out the fountain head of greatness, and to see if we can discover in the ancestor any of those ingredients which afterwards, in a favoured descendant, burst, out into a blaze of fame. We can trace nothing of this kind in the progenitors of Sir Walter. Their lot seems to have been confined to provincial honours, where they alike were shut out from the extended glory and the severe misfortunes of him who rendered their name illustrious over the wide globe. His father had only a lease in the farm at Hayes, which afterwards passed into other hands; and it appears that after he had begun to make his fortune, he was obliged to seek a residence for himself. Sir Walter was educated at Oxford, where he resided three years; and then, in 1569, at the age of seventeen, formed one of the select troop of a hundred gentlemen, whom Queen Elizabeth permitted Henry Champernoun to transport to France, for the assistance of the protestant princes there. A servic...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217822008 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217822002 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 92 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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