A Tour Around the WorldW.S. Gottsberger, 1885 - 430 pages |
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... driving , surrounded by a strong escort of cavalry . The blood of his predecessor , Lord Cav- endish , and that of Secretary Burke , was still fresh upon the spot where they were assassinated , May 6th , 1882 ; the day previous to our ...
... driving , surrounded by a strong escort of cavalry . The blood of his predecessor , Lord Cav- endish , and that of Secretary Burke , was still fresh upon the spot where they were assassinated , May 6th , 1882 ; the day previous to our ...
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... 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 Callander we went ...
... 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 Callander we went ...
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... drive of four miles from Stirling brought us to Cambuskenneth Abbey , where are interred the remains of James III . On the way we passed the Wallace Tower - an immense monument built at a height of 200 feet ; Darnley's house ; and 12 A ...
... drive of four miles from Stirling brought us to Cambuskenneth Abbey , where are interred the remains of James III . On the way we passed the Wallace Tower - an immense monument built at a height of 200 feet ; Darnley's house ; and 12 A ...
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... drive of four miles brought us to Dryburgh Abbey , the burial place of Sir Walter Scott , and the most picturesque ruin in all Scotland . Adjoining the Abbey are the remains of the cloister ; and a hole in the wall of a cell shows where ...
... drive of four miles brought us to Dryburgh Abbey , the burial place of Sir Walter Scott , and the most picturesque ruin in all Scotland . Adjoining the Abbey are the remains of the cloister ; and a hole in the wall of a cell shows where ...
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... drive of the city , contains 350 acres , and is laid out with fine carriage - roads and paths intersecting each other at every point ; the portion called Rotten Row be- ing devoted exclusively to equestrians . On the southern limit ...
... drive of the city , contains 350 acres , and is laid out with fine carriage - roads and paths intersecting each other at every point ; the portion called Rotten Row be- ing devoted exclusively to equestrians . On the southern limit ...
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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.