Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 421853 |
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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 find it not 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 find it not 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 Belgian territory is small , the area being only 11,373 square miles ...
... present heir - apparent . He married , 1867 , the Princess Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen . The 50th anniversary of the separation from Holland was celebrated 1880 . The Belgian territory is small , the area being only 11,373 square miles ...
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... presents the appearance of one continuous village . The South and East provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of ...
... presents the appearance of one continuous village . The South and East provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of ...
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... be denied the credit of having been the perfector of the art , and may , in some measure , be esteemed its father . The perfection to which he brought oil painting is fully seen , to the present day , in the INTRODUCTION . XXV .
... be denied the credit of having been the perfector of the art , and may , in some measure , be esteemed its father . The perfection to which he brought oil painting is fully seen , to the present day , in the INTRODUCTION . XXV .
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Abbey ancient Antwerp architecture Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bradshaw's branch bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charlemagne Charleroi Château choir Church of St Coblenz Cologne contains Counts of Flanders Courtrai crosses Dinant Duke Dutch edifice Electric Light Emperor English erected excursion feet high finest FIRST-CLASS HOTEL Flanders Flemish formerly France French gardens German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége Louvain magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles modern monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite ornamented Ostend paintings Palace passes picturesque population Prince principal Proprietor Prussian rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road Roman Rooms Rotterdam Route Royal Rubens ruins Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue Steamers Strassburg style table d'hôte tion Tournai tower traveller Trèves valley village West Flanders wine
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Page 42 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Page 36 - 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! 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 xxvi - Rubens stands in the esteem of the world is alone a sufficient reason for some examination of his pretensions. His fame is extended over a great part of the Continent, without a rival: and it may be justly said that he has enriched his...
Page xxvi - ... left, but by what some would think a more solid advantage, — the wealth arising from the concourse of strangers whom his works continually invite to Antwerp.
Page 81 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 184 - Now surrounded by its own beautiful Park. Open all the Year. Charges Strictly Moderate. Special arrangements for a prolonged stay. PENSION. TABLE D'HOTE AT 1 AND 6 O'CLOCK.
Page xxviii - Belgium is the first State in Europe in which a general system of railways has been planned and executed by the government, at the public cost ; and, certainly, it is an honorable distinction to have given the first example of such a national and systematic provision of the means of rapid communication.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 185 - Beautiful First Class Establishment is the most important and the best situated, opposite the Central station, it has been entirely refurnished and fitted with the most recent improvements. Vast Terrace.