Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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... traveller with a valuable companion in his Tour through Belgium and on the Rhine . And with a view to his convenience and information , we have given him a book small and compact , capable of being consigned to the pocket , or borne in ...
... traveller with a valuable companion in his Tour through Belgium and on the Rhine . And with a view to his convenience and information , we have given him a book small and compact , capable of being consigned to the pocket , or borne in ...
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George Bradshaw. We meet the traveller in England , impart to him the information necessary for the purpose of ... travellers abroad has to pass through ; we can thoroughly appreciate the merciless criticism which will test its truth when ...
George Bradshaw. We meet the traveller in England , impart to him the information necessary for the purpose of ... travellers abroad has to pass through ; we can thoroughly appreciate the merciless criticism which will test its truth when ...
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... traveller to have one to shew when called upon . The police take lists of persons staying at the Hotels and Cafés . A Passport may be obtained through our Agent , Mr. W. J. Adams , 59 , Fleet Street . Consulate , Bury Court , St. Mary ...
... traveller to have one to shew when called upon . The police take lists of persons staying at the Hotels and Cafés . A Passport may be obtained through our Agent , Mr. W. J. Adams , 59 , Fleet Street . Consulate , Bury Court , St. Mary ...
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... traveller and his luggage to his resting place . He should take one at once on his arrival and thus save himself the annoy- ance he is , otherwise , sure to suffer from porters and commissionnaires of the hotels . The general tariff is ...
... traveller and his luggage to his resting place . He should take one at once on his arrival and thus save himself the annoy- ance he is , otherwise , sure to suffer from porters and commissionnaires of the hotels . The general tariff is ...
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... rapid progress in every industrial pursuit and social improvement , tit with a peculiar interest for the historian , the traveller , and the student . Its territory , as defined by treaty of 15th November XX . INTRODUCTION .
... rapid progress in every industrial pursuit and social improvement , tit with a peculiar interest for the historian , the traveller , and the student . Its territory , as defined by treaty of 15th November XX . INTRODUCTION .
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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.