Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 321853 |
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... king , Leopold II . , born 9th April , 1835 , ascended 10th December , 1865 . He married the Archduchess Maria , 22nd August , 1853 ( his Silver Wedding was celebrated 1878 ) , and has two daughters . A son died 1869. The king's brother ...
... king , Leopold II . , born 9th April , 1835 , ascended 10th December , 1865 . He married the Archduchess Maria , 22nd August , 1853 ( his Silver Wedding was celebrated 1878 ) , and has two daughters . A son died 1869. The king's brother ...
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... King and two Chambers - the Senate and the House of Representatives , the members of which are elected by the people paying 30s . direct taxes annually . The number of representatives cannot exceed one to every 40,000 people , and in ...
... King and two Chambers - the Senate and the House of Representatives , the members of which are elected by the people paying 30s . direct taxes annually . The number of representatives cannot exceed one to every 40,000 people , and in ...
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... King is a Roman Catholic , and that faith is the religion of the State . Every other form of faith has free exercise . RAILWAYS . - Belgium is the first State in Europe in which a system of railways has been planned and executed partly ...
... King is a Roman Catholic , and that faith is the religion of the State . Every other form of faith has free exercise . RAILWAYS . - Belgium is the first State in Europe in which a system of railways has been planned and executed partly ...
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... Kings of France have been found here . The Town Hall is a handsome Gothic building ; the fountain and basin opposite are worthy of attention . The portal of the collegiate church of the burgomaster and aldermen is a masterpiece of wood ...
... Kings of France have been found here . The Town Hall is a handsome Gothic building ; the fountain and basin opposite are worthy of attention . The portal of the collegiate church of the burgomaster and aldermen is a masterpiece of wood ...
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... King of Holland , in 1826. It is a beautiful and modern edifice , having a splendid Corinthian portico , modelled from the Pantheon , at Rome , and is built on the site of the Jesuits ' College . The library , consisting of 100,000 vols ...
... King of Holland , in 1826. It is a beautiful and modern edifice , having a splendid Corinthian portico , modelled from the Pantheon , at Rome , and is built on the site of the Jesuits ' College . The library , consisting of 100,000 vols ...
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Page 84 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying Wind, Or holding dark communion with the Cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 159 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 33 - Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 36 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Page 36 - Was it a soothing or a mournful thought, Amid this scene of slaughter as we stood, Where armies had with recent fury fought, To mark how gentle Nature still pursued Her quiet course, as if she took no care For what her noblest work had suffer'd there.
Page 79 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 164 - PORTMANTEAUS And STRONG DRESS BASKETS, 37, WEST STRAND, LONDON. New Illustrated Catalogue of Registered and Patented Articles, Post Free.
Page 162 - Proprietor.— This large and well-known Establishment, close to the Kursaal, and opposite the principal Bath Houses, has an excellent reputation for its general comfort, cleanliness, superior accommodation, and very moderate charges. The Proprietor lived several years in England. Table d'Hote at 1 and 6 o'clock.