For had it been otherwise, I should hardly have had this leisure, to have made myself a fool in print.
[Footnote A: A sketch of the life of Raleigh will be found prefixed to his "Discovery of Guiana" in the volume of "Voyages and Travels".
His "History of the World" was written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London, which lasted from 1603 to 1616.

The Preface is interesting not only as a fine piece of Elizabethan prose but as exhibiting the attitude toward history, and the view of the relation of history to religion and philosophy, which characterized one who represented with exceptional vigor the typical Elizabethan man of action and who was also a man of thought and imagination.] [Footnote 1: Queen Elizabeth] [Footnote 2: "An ill opinion, honorably acquired, is pleasing."] [Footnote 3: "So you not to yourselves."] [Footnote 4: "He increased, with the result that he is oppressed by his greatness."] [Footnote 5: "The insult done in scorning her beauty."] [Footnote 6: "God gave to Solomon largeness of heart."-- 1 Kings iv.
89.] [Footnote 7: Step.

Pasquiere, Recherches, lib.v.cap.

i.] [Footnote 8: Step-mother.] [Footnote 9: i.e., Protestantism] [Footnote 10: Instantly.] [Footnote 11: Dispossessed.] [Footnote 12: "Nothing hindering."] [Footnote 13: "That they are wise in a foolish matter."-- Lactantius, _De falsa sapientia_, 3, 29.] [Footnote 14: Augustine, _De cura pro morte_.] [Footnote 15: "Wealth acquired without fraud."] [Footnote 16: "O how many go down with this hope to endless labors and wars."] [Footnote 17: Transient.] [Footnote 18: Opponents.] [Footnote 19: "Everything which is to come lies in uncertainty."] [Footnote 20: "Who follow their commander with groans."] [Footnote 21: "It takes great genius to call back the mind from the senses."] [Footnote 22: "Against him who denies the principles."] [Footnote 23: "Specific virtue, or power."] [Footnote 24: "The Roman Church."] [Footnote 25: "I shall light a lamp of understanding in thine heart."-- IV.

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