Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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... room ; their sculpture is of exquisite delicacy and highly finished , and worthy of attention . Church of Saint Martin : this church was founded about the year 650 by Saint Eloi . It is remarkable for the tower ( one of the loftiest in ...
... room ; their sculpture is of exquisite delicacy and highly finished , and worthy of attention . Church of Saint Martin : this church was founded about the year 650 by Saint Eloi . It is remarkable for the tower ( one of the loftiest in ...
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... room , and is employed during the day in working at whatever trade or business he or she is most competent to do . Of the produce of this labour , five - tenths are retained by government when the prisoners are merely detained correc ...
... room , and is employed during the day in working at whatever trade or business he or she is most competent to do . Of the produce of this labour , five - tenths are retained by government when the prisoners are merely detained correc ...
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... rooms are beautiful in their construction and decoration . It was erected at a cost of £ 100,000 . Louis XVIII . waited here by the Duke of Wel- lington's advice before Waterloo , " that he might be ready to go to England or Paris ...
... rooms are beautiful in their construction and decoration . It was erected at a cost of £ 100,000 . Louis XVIII . waited here by the Duke of Wel- lington's advice before Waterloo , " that he might be ready to go to England or Paris ...
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... room . Hotel Mertian , first - class house , open all the year . Hotel de Russie , very good . Grand Hotel du Phare , facing the Baths . Hotel de la Plage , first - class hotel , between the new Kursaal and the King's Residence . Hotel ...
... room . Hotel Mertian , first - class house , open all the year . Hotel de Russie , very good . Grand Hotel du Phare , facing the Baths . Hotel de la Plage , first - class hotel , between the new Kursaal and the King's Residence . Hotel ...
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... rooms , with every comfort , lift , baths ; highly recommended . Hotel de Belle Vue : a large first - class establish- ment , kept by Mr. Dremel . Hotel de Flandre , in the Place Royale . Hotel Mengelle , 75 , Rue Royale ; English and ...
... rooms , with every comfort , lift , baths ; highly recommended . Hotel de Belle Vue : a large first - class establish- ment , kept by Mr. Dremel . Hotel de Flandre , in the Place Royale . Hotel Mengelle , 75 , Rue Royale ; English and ...
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Abbey altar ancient Antwerp Baden Baths beautiful Belgium BRADSHAW'S bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charlemagne Charleroi Château choir Church of St CLASS HOTEL Coblenz Cologne comfort commands contains Counts of Flanders crosses Duke Emperor English Church erected excellent excursion Families first-class formerly France French Garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége London magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite ornamented Ostend paintings Palace Paris passes Pension picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue Steamers Strassburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tower town traveller Trèves valley village visitors West Flanders wine
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Page 177 - CARL WEISS, Proprietor. THIS first-rate establishment, situated near the great Public Promenade, combines comfort with elegance, and has the advantage of possessing a spacious and beautiful garden. Two superior Table d'Hotes daily.
Page 142 - 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 32 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas!
Page 34 - 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.