The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers: The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added, the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers: The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added, the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake

But this Eitpe tation, however plaufible, has been very frequently difappointed. T he Heroes of literary, as well as civil Hillary have been very often no lefs remarkable for what they have fullered than for what they have achieved and Volumes have been written only to enumemte the Mikriea of the Learned, and relate their unhappy Lives and an.

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