Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . on, study the early history of their country. WALTER RALEIGH was born at Hayes, on the coast of Devonshire, in young, he was sent to Oriel college, Oxford, where he exhibited a rest-less ambition, which prompted him to seek distinction rather in the stirringscenes of the world, than the cloistered solitude of a college ; and
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . on, study the early history of their country. WALTER RALEIGH was born at Hayes, on the coast of Devonshire, in young, he was sent to Oriel college, Oxford, where he exhibited a rest-less ambition, which prompted him to seek distinction rather in the stirringscenes of the world, than the cloistered solitude of a college ; and this naturalinclination to adventure was fostered by the study of books relating to the con-quests of the Spaniards in the New World, a species of reading which was thedelight of his early years, and undoubtedly gave a color to the whole tenor ofhis life. At the age of seventeen, he made one of a troop of a hundred gentlemen vol-unteers, whom Queen Elizabeth permitted to go to France, under the commandof Henry Champeron, for the service of the protestant princes. He next servedin the Netherlands ; and, on his return from the continent, his half-brother, SirHumphrey Gilbert, having obtained a grant of lands in North America, he eu- 140 SIR WALTER SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 141
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