Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 171853 |
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Page xvii
... French money is so generally current that a traveller who confines himself to Belgium need not provide himself with any other . At all the large towns English sovereigns will be readily exchanged , and should com- mand the full ...
... French money is so generally current that a traveller who confines himself to Belgium need not provide himself with any other . At all the large towns English sovereigns will be readily exchanged , and should com- mand the full ...
Page xviii
... French leagues . The charge per post , for each horse , is 1 fr . 30 cts . , and for each postilion that distance , 15 sous . A berlin or landau will take three or four horses ; a chariot , three ; britzka , though carrying the same ...
... French leagues . The charge per post , for each horse , is 1 fr . 30 cts . , and for each postilion that distance , 15 sous . A berlin or landau will take three or four horses ; a chariot , three ; britzka , though carrying the same ...
Page xx
... French . Between 1794 and 1815 , Belgium made nine departments of France . With Holland , it formed the kingdom of the Netherlands from 1815 down to 1830 ; since which it has ranked as a separate and independent kingdom . In the August ...
... French . Between 1794 and 1815 , Belgium made nine departments of France . With Holland , it formed the kingdom of the Netherlands from 1815 down to 1830 ; since which it has ranked as a separate and independent kingdom . In the August ...
Page xxiv
... French , without producing an agreeable compound . The different provinces exhibit some variety of character and manners . On the borders of Holland the people are generally similar to the Dutch , and adopt their customs , amusements ...
... French , without producing an agreeable compound . The different provinces exhibit some variety of character and manners . On the borders of Holland the people are generally similar to the Dutch , and adopt their customs , amusements ...
Page xxv
... French spoken in Belgium . On the west of this line the Picard dialect is spoken , and the Walloon on the east of it . French is the language of the educated classes . Works of Art . - School of PAINTING . — Belgium can boast of a ...
... French spoken in Belgium . On the west of this line the Picard dialect is spoken , and the Walloon on the east of it . French is the language of the educated classes . Works of Art . - School of PAINTING . — Belgium can boast of a ...
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Abbey accommodation altar ancient Antwerp apartments Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bingen bridge Bruges Brussels building built canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated century chapel Charleroi château Church of St Coblenz Cologne comfort contains Counts of Flanders crosses distance Duke East Flanders Emperor English travellers erected establishment excellent families feet first-class Hotel Flanders formerly France French garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége Louvain Luxembourg magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Namur o'clock Omnibuses opposite ornamented Ostend OTEL paintings palace Paris passes picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia Quiévrain rail Railway Station remarkable Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Rubens ruins Saloons Sambre scenery Scheldt seen side situated splendid Steamers Strasburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion Tournay tower town Trèves valley village visitors wine
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Page 34 - 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 89 - Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...
Page 176 - Dependance consist of One Hundred and Sixty Sleeping Apartments, elegant Sitting-rooms, and a Garden for the use of visitors. Extensive and airy Dining-room, and a comfortable Public Sitting-room, with Piano and Library. It is conducted under the Immediate superintendence of the Proprietor...
Page 37 - 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.