Our Cruise in the Undine: The Journal of an English Pair-oar Expedition Through France, Baden, Rhenish Bavaria, Prussia, and BelgiumJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 156 pages |
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... fact of everything in connexion with money matters . The Captain ( a quondam Captain of his College Boat Club ) was intrusted with the command and care of the boat ; while the Doctor ( the little Doctor , as he has always been called ...
... fact of everything in connexion with money matters . The Captain ( a quondam Captain of his College Boat Club ) was intrusted with the command and care of the boat ; while the Doctor ( the little Doctor , as he has always been called ...
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... fact of one's being a British subject , in making an application for a Foreign Office passport , a younger brother of the Captain's had been requested to obtain them for himself and the Doctor , from a magistrate of the town in which ...
... fact of one's being a British subject , in making an application for a Foreign Office passport , a younger brother of the Captain's had been requested to obtain them for himself and the Doctor , from a magistrate of the town in which ...
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... fact that the angles of the spire do not run in straight lines from the base to the top , but are twisted spirally round the flêche ; this adds greatly to the beauty of the building , although whether it was built thus in the first ...
... fact that the angles of the spire do not run in straight lines from the base to the top , but are twisted spirally round the flêche ; this adds greatly to the beauty of the building , although whether it was built thus in the first ...
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... fact , a complete jet d'eau of about two feet six inches square . It need not be hinted how very necessary it is to keep the boat out of the reach of this spout , or to prevent her scraping against the sides of the lock ; but this is ...
... fact , a complete jet d'eau of about two feet six inches square . It need not be hinted how very necessary it is to keep the boat out of the reach of this spout , or to prevent her scraping against the sides of the lock ; but this is ...
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... fact , we preferred bathing in our clothes to - day , that they might keep us cool by evaporation afterwards . Attempts were made to teach the Doctor to swim , but they proved utterly futile ; he positively will not float . The banks of ...
... fact , we preferred bathing in our clothes to - day , that they might keep us cool by evaporation afterwards . Attempts were made to teach the Doctor to swim , but they proved utterly futile ; he positively will not float . The banks of ...
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Page 138 - IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended, Low and loud and sweetly blended, Low at times and loud at times, And changing like a poet's rhymes, Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the Belfry in the market Of the ancient town of Bruges.
Page 132 - Ghent is said to have contained 80,000 men capable of bearing arms. The number of weavers then amounted to 40,000 ; and they alone could furnish 18,000 fighting men out of their corporation. A custom derived from that period still exists in the town : — A bell was rung at morning, noon, and evening, to summon the weavers to their work and meals ; while it tolled, the drawbridges over the canals could not be raised for the passage of vessels ; and other persons were even enjoined not to go out into...
Page 22 - Or stretch'd on the beach, or our saddles spread As a pillow beneath the resting head, Fresh we woke upon the morrow : All our thoughts and words had scope, We had health, and we had hope, Toil and travel, but no sorrow.
Page 156 - The Merchant and the Friar; or, Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages. By Sir F.
Page 114 - ... this noble river ! And right it is; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms. By...
Page 114 - ... no other part of its course does it fill an ampler channel or roll along with more impetuous rapidity. It enters the Lake of Constance turbid with the impurities of the glacier torrents which feed it. It emerges crystalline in purity, and deliciously green in colour. Well may Longfellow exclaim : " O the pride of the German heart in this noble river! And right it is, for of all the rivers of this beautiful earth there is none so beautiful as this.
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Page 114 - The Rhine ! the Rhine ! a blessing on the Rhine !" O, the pride of the German heart in this noble river ! And right it is ; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms.