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
... principal London Bankers , and form a very safe and convenient kind of Letters of credit . The arrangements for cashing them in the various countries through which the traveller may have to pass are very simple and efficient ...
... principal London Bankers , and form a very safe and convenient kind of Letters of credit . The arrangements for cashing them in the various countries through which the traveller may have to pass are very simple and efficient ...
Page xxvii
... principal Exports are the productions of its flourishing agriculture and numerous manufactures , such as corn , bran , coal , oil , lace , woollen and cotton cloths , linen canvas , arms , cutlery , and iron- mongery . The average ...
... principal Exports are the productions of its flourishing agriculture and numerous manufactures , such as corn , bran , coal , oil , lace , woollen and cotton cloths , linen canvas , arms , cutlery , and iron- mongery . The average ...
Page xxviii
... principal commercial towns on one side with the sea , and on the other with the frontier of France and Prussia . In this respect Belgium is most favourably situated for the experiment of a general system of railroads . It is compact in ...
... principal commercial towns on one side with the sea , and on the other with the frontier of France and Prussia . In this respect Belgium is most favourably situated for the experiment of a general system of railroads . It is compact in ...
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... principal gate , built in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu , and figured by Hogarth in his celebrated picture , is worth a short inspection . The Hôtel de Guise will also interest the English traveller , as having been the place where Henry ...
... principal gate , built in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu , and figured by Hogarth in his celebrated picture , is worth a short inspection . The Hôtel de Guise will also interest the English traveller , as having been the place where Henry ...
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... principal towns in the north of France . Its population is 25,000 . The streets are large , and finely built . Under the name of Cortoriacum it existed in the time of the Romans . The first cloths were made here in 1268 , and two ...
... principal towns in the north of France . Its population is 25,000 . The streets are large , and finely built . Under the name of Cortoriacum it existed in the time of the Romans . The first cloths were made here in 1268 , and two ...
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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.