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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1868. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... OHAPTEE IV. LADY RALEIGH AND THK COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. Around Thursday, November 17th, 1603, many incidents worthy of notice grouped themselves. Ealeigh appears to have been informed immediately after his condemnation that he would be suffered to live eighteen days, during which time therefore it behoved him to close his accounts with Time, and prepare for Eternity. It is easy, I am aware, to be stoical when it is another man's life, not yours, that is in jeopardy; yet with all my love for Ealeigh's character, and profound reverence for his memory, I am unable to refrain from blaming, the course he now pursued. He felt it was blameable, and blamed himself* There was a violent struggle going on in his mind--he was ambitious, he felt that his life, if he perished then, might be looked upon by * "It was for you and yours," he writes to Ms wife, " that I desired life, but it is true I disdain myself for begging it." Works, viii., 649. VOL. II. K posterity as a play not played out; he had a son, an only son, whom he dearly loved; he had a wife whom he loved still more dearly; and who, in spite of the hard usage she had met with from him in the outset, had proved herself the truest of true wives--her love rising as the tide of misfortune rose about them both, shedding its pure splendour over his dungeon, as it would, he doubted not, over his grave. These were circumstances which could not fail to exert a powerful influence on his conduct, yet they should not have extorted from him the letter he wrote to James, entreating his forgiveness. He could not have forgotten that many of those Komans whom in secret he emulated, would not, when they knew themselves to be the victims of injustice, have stooped to ask their lives of king or emperor; their souls therefore--though ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151154415
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151154415
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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