Excerpt from Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Vol. 1 of 2: 1552 1618 IT may possibly be expected that I should state my reasons for undertaking a new biography of Sir Walter Raleigh, of whom more lives have perhaps been written than of any other Englishman. Besides that it seems needful for nations to review from time to time the achievements and characters of their great men, that they may be made to appear in the light in which they ought to be regarded in a civilized age, many other motives concur in the case of Raleigh for ...
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Excerpt from Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Vol. 1 of 2: 1552 1618 IT may possibly be expected that I should state my reasons for undertaking a new biography of Sir Walter Raleigh, of whom more lives have perhaps been written than of any other Englishman. Besides that it seems needful for nations to review from time to time the achievements and characters of their great men, that they may be made to appear in the light in which they ought to be regarded in a civilized age, many other motives concur in the case of Raleigh for entering now into a critical examination of his career. It is no reproach to former biographers to maintain that they could by no possibility have written a complete life of Raleigh, because the materials for such a work were wanting. This will be evident to all who compare the following indication of what is new in the present volume with former biographies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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