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Excerpt from English Seamen: Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake Cavendish
The fourth volume, he writes, will contain the lives of Essex, Raleigh, Sir William Monson, Blake, and Monk. Then, not to extend unreasonably a work which was not intended by the publisher at first for more than two volumes, I Shall drop the biography and wind up in one volume more, with the Naval History from the Revolution in continuous narrative. A good pretext for this is, that the age of naval enterprise and adventure, and couse quently of personal interest, was past; and the interest henceforth becomes political, events are regarded, not with reference to the principal actors, as in Drakes time, but to their bearings upon the national affairs.
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