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... particular features of the present Volumes . The first is the introduction of not fewer than three recently- discovered Spas of value , particularly the one in Lincoln- shire , of which no account exists in any previous work . The ...
... particular features of the present Volumes . The first is the introduction of not fewer than three recently- discovered Spas of value , particularly the one in Lincoln- shire , of which no account exists in any previous work . The ...
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... particular use . It is not , how- ever , a professed treatise on sea - bathing that the reader must expect in this place , but only a few practical hints derived from personal experience , to the exclusion of every species of theory or ...
... particular use . It is not , how- ever , a professed treatise on sea - bathing that the reader must expect in this place , but only a few practical hints derived from personal experience , to the exclusion of every species of theory or ...
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... particular con- cerning them . Such of my readers as may be advised to use sea - baths , and who , living in counties nearer to Liverpool than to Margate or Brighton , desire to avoid the incon- venience , fatigue , and expense of ...
... particular con- cerning them . Such of my readers as may be advised to use sea - baths , and who , living in counties nearer to Liverpool than to Margate or Brighton , desire to avoid the incon- venience , fatigue , and expense of ...
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... particular notice . Houses , let to private families by the week or month , well furnished , and in every way as comfortable as can be expected in a place so recently started into existence , are among these ranges of showy buildings ...
... particular notice . Houses , let to private families by the week or month , well furnished , and in every way as comfortable as can be expected in a place so recently started into existence , are among these ranges of showy buildings ...
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... particular merit and demerit appertaining to the place . The hotel , in which I occupied a very comfortable room on the second story , looking north , forms the eastern termination or wing of that magnificent building ( equalled in ...
... particular merit and demerit appertaining to the place . The hotel , in which I occupied a very comfortable room on the second story , looking north , forms the eastern termination or wing of that magnificent building ( equalled in ...
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The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas ... Augustus Bozzi Granville No preview available - 2014 |
The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas ... Augustus Bozzi Granville No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 273 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 211 - And he took bread, and • gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
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Page 218 - Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men ; after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
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Page 283 - ... us. There is, perhaps, no one person of any considerable rate of mind who does not owe something to this matchless poet. He is the teacher of all good, — pity, generosity, true courage, love. His works alone (leaving mere science out of the question) contain, probably, more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out
Page 284 - into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge are meted out in morsels and proverbs ; and, thus distributed, there is scarcely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich.
Page 46 - At another part of his work on the spas of England, he says, that "the efficacy of the Buxton waters used as baths at their natural temperature is more strikingly manifested in cases of general debility, partial paralysis, and that peculiar state of weakness which is the result of rheumatic affection and repeated attacks of gout. In the latter case, indeed, Buxton has acquired a wellknown reputation.