Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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... excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the Meuse , is fertile and carefully cultivated . The character of Brabant resembles that of Flanders with respect to its beautiful fields , gardens , and luxuriant trees ...
... excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the Meuse , is fertile and carefully cultivated . The character of Brabant resembles that of Flanders with respect to its beautiful fields , gardens , and luxuriant trees ...
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... 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 said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
... 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 said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
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... 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 said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
... 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 said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
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... excellent accommodation . A. Rosz- mann , proprietor Du Comte d'Egmont ; d'Allemagne ; du Duc de Wellington ; de Courtrai . There is a good Buffet at the station , which is within the town . Cabs are always in attendance . Post Office ...
... excellent accommodation . A. Rosz- mann , proprietor Du Comte d'Egmont ; d'Allemagne ; du Duc de Wellington ; de Courtrai . There is a good Buffet at the station , which is within the town . Cabs are always in attendance . Post Office ...
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... excellent keeping with the rest of the building . The choir which has two side aisles , is raised above the floor of the body of the church by a flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclosed by three bronze doors of elaborate ...
... excellent keeping with the rest of the building . The choir which has two side aisles , is raised above the floor of the body of the church by a flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclosed by three bronze doors of elaborate ...
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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.