A Tour Around the WorldW.S. Gottsberger, 1885 - 430 pages |
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... Continuing by stage , a distance of eleven miles , we reached Glengariff , a charming resort surrounded by high peaks and lovely lakes . climate here is delightfully mild ; flowers bloom- ing a month in advance of the season elsewhere ...
... Continuing by stage , a distance of eleven miles , we reached Glengariff , a charming resort surrounded by high peaks and lovely lakes . climate here is delightfully mild ; flowers bloom- ing a month in advance of the season elsewhere ...
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... Continuing our drive we passed Ben Lodi , Loch Venachar , and Coilantogle's Ford , where the combat took place between Roderick Dhu and Fitz James , after Roderick had discharged his ob- ligation of conducting him there safely . From ...
... Continuing our drive we passed Ben Lodi , Loch Venachar , and Coilantogle's Ford , where the combat took place between Roderick Dhu and Fitz James , after Roderick had discharged his ob- ligation of conducting him there safely . From ...
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... Continuing down the strand -one of the principal thoroughfares of the city , on which are located many of the theatres , we reached Charing Cross — a locality which takes its name from one of the five crosses which mark the rest- ing ...
... Continuing down the strand -one of the principal thoroughfares of the city , on which are located many of the theatres , we reached Charing Cross — a locality which takes its name from one of the five crosses which mark the rest- ing ...
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... continuing our route , we stopped at Carlisle , in order to visit its ancient castle and cathedral ; then passing through Newcastle , noted for its coals , whence the expression , " carrying coals to Newcastle ; " and Durham ...
... continuing our route , we stopped at Carlisle , in order to visit its ancient castle and cathedral ; then passing through Newcastle , noted for its coals , whence the expression , " carrying coals to Newcastle ; " and Durham ...
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... continuing his midnight rambles . At this church may be heard the finest music in the city , chanted by 40 monks . A shrine now marks the spot where the late Emperor Alexander was killed ; and preparations are being made to erect a ...
... continuing his midnight rambles . At this church may be heard the finest music in the city , chanted by 40 monks . A shrine now marks the spot where the late Emperor Alexander was killed ; and preparations are being made to erect a ...
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Page 285 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 9 - O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence and attend! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe; The dauntless heart that feared no human pride; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe; "For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
Page 137 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Page 48 - It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Page 346 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Page 197 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Page 9 - O YE whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe, The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride, The friend of man — to vice alone a foe ; For ' ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
Page 247 - It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle!
Page 313 - What is this world?' says a Brahman sage. 'It is even as the bough of a tree, on which a bird rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.
Page 337 - Frenchman by birth, . . . who, after defrauding several of the Princes of Europe, by means of false gems, which he fabricated with peculiar skill, sought refuge in the Great Mogol's court, where he made his fortune.