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A Life of Joseph Hall, D.d., Bishop of Exeter and Norwich
A Life of Joseph Hall Dd Bishop of Exeter and Norwich Author:George Lewis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the G... more »eneral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. NATIONAL LIFE DURING HALL'S BOYHOOD. -- EMMANUEL COLLEGE. -- SCHOLAR. -- B. A. -- M. A. BEFORE we proceed to the details of Hall's career at Cambridge, it may perhaps be well to take a brief survey of the life of the nation during the years of his boyhood, and all the more because the college of which he became a distinguished member was the direct product of the forces then at work. It was a time of gallant deeds, romantic enterprises, and atrocious crimes. Raleigh, though doomed to failure in his own attempt, had planted our first colony on the shores of Virginia, and so led the van in what afterwards became the magnificent crusade of world-wide colonisation. Our navy was beginning to acquire the splendid fame which it has never since lost. Francis Drake, when Hall was a child just out of arms, had assailed the Spaniards in their far-off western possessions, and after taking a rich booty had returned to England by the Cape of Good Hope. Thus he was the first Englishman to sail round the globe, and, more fortunate than Magellan, who died during his attempt, the first commander-in-chief. His valour had been rewarded by the presence of Elizabeth at a banquet on board the Admiral's ship. Later, with a fleet of twentysail, he had carried the war to the West Indies, and only a year before Hall went up to Cambridge, the same brave sailor had displayed no less strategy than courage in putting to the rout the Invincible Armada. A boy of so religious a temperament as Hal...« less