Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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... present volume determined to meet the requirements and oft - expressed wishes of the public , by undertaking the task of supplying to them Continental Hand - Books , small and convenient in size , yet replete with all the descriptive ...
... present volume determined to meet the requirements and oft - expressed wishes of the public , by undertaking the task of supplying to them Continental Hand - Books , small and convenient in size , yet replete with all the descriptive ...
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... present volume we have aimed at the medium between an useless repetition of detail , and the annoy ance of a tasteless brevity of description ; and trust the traveller may not find it less useful than interesting . INTRODUCTION ...
... present volume we have aimed at the medium between an useless repetition of detail , and the annoy ance of a tasteless brevity of description ; and trust the traveller may not find it less useful than interesting . INTRODUCTION ...
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... present heir - apparent . He married , 1867 , the Princess Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen . The 50th anniversary of the separation from Holland was celebrated 1880 . The Belgic territory is small when compared with other European kingdoms ...
... present heir - apparent . He married , 1867 , the Princess Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen . The 50th anniversary of the separation from Holland was celebrated 1880 . The Belgic territory is small when compared with other European kingdoms ...
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... presents to the traveller the appearance of one continuous village . The S. and E. provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface ...
... presents to the traveller the appearance of one continuous village . The S. and E. provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface ...
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... art . The perfection to which he brought oil painting fully seen , to the present day , in the deep brilliancy and liveliness discernible A 2- ( Belgium . ) his works , which , by the freshness and perfect INTRODUCTION , XXV .
... art . The perfection to which he brought oil painting fully seen , to the present day , in the deep brilliancy and liveliness discernible A 2- ( Belgium . ) his works , which , by the freshness and perfect INTRODUCTION , XXV .
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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.