Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 1Bradshaw's Guide Office, 1853 - 159 pages |
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Page xiv
... extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the south and east , the entire territory presents the appearance of a series of nearly level plains , traversed by numerous streams , delightfully diversified by woods ...
... extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the south and east , the entire territory presents the appearance of a series of nearly level plains , traversed by numerous streams , delightfully diversified by woods ...
Page xv
... extensive tracts of sand , covered with heath , broom , and firs . Some parts , however , consist of natural prairies , that serve as pasturage for extensive herds of excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the ...
... extensive tracts of sand , covered with heath , broom , and firs . Some parts , however , consist of natural prairies , that serve as pasturage for extensive herds of excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the ...
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... extensive transit trade , The physical nature of the country is also most favourable , being for the most part very flat , and requiring but few of those costly works of levelling , tunnelling , and embanking which serve to increase so ...
... extensive transit trade , The physical nature of the country is also most favourable , being for the most part very flat , and requiring but few of those costly works of levelling , tunnelling , and embanking which serve to increase so ...
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... extensive in Belgium , giving employment to 10,000 miners , and yielding annually three millions of tons of coal The glass trade is carried on to a great extent , and there are numerous and exten- sive iron works in this district . It ...
... extensive in Belgium , giving employment to 10,000 miners , and yielding annually three millions of tons of coal The glass trade is carried on to a great extent , and there are numerous and exten- sive iron works in this district . It ...
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... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
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Abbey adorned altar ancient Antwerp architecture arrive Baden beautiful Belgian Belgium Brabant bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charleroi château choir Church of St Coblenz Cologne contains Counts of Flanders Courtray crosses Dinant Duke Duke of Brabant edifice Emperor erected establishment feet Flanders formerly France French gardens German Ghent Gothic Grand hill Hotel Hôtel de Ville inhabitants interesting leaving left bank Liége London Louvain magnificent Malines manufacture marble Mayence ment Meuse Mons monument mountains Namur ornamented Ostend paintings palace passes passport picture picturesque Pied-noir population present Prince principal promenade remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Route 12 Rubens ruins Sambre scenery Scheldt seen side situated splendid spot Steamers streets style surmounted Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tomb Tournay tower town traveller trees Treves valley village West Flanders worth
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Page xviii - Rubens stands in the esteem of the world is alone a sufficient reason for some examination of his pretensions. His fame is extended over a great part of the Continent, without a rival: and it may be justly said that he has enriched his...
Page 40 - 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 34 - 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 16 - Yet everywhere its monuments remain : Temples which rear their stately heads on high, Canals that intersect the fertile plain — "Wide streets and squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all.
Page xviii - ... left, but by what some would think a more solid advantage — the wealth arising from the concourse of strangers whom his works continually invite to Antwerp. "To extend his glory still...