A Tour Around the WorldW.S. Gottsberger, 1886 - 430 pages |
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... CHAPEL : HAW- THORNDEN : MELROSE ABBEY : DRYBURGH ABBEY : ABBOTSFORD . SAILING up the river Clyde , we passed large numbers of ships in course of construction , from the formidable man - of - war and fine merchant ship , to various ...
... CHAPEL : HAW- THORNDEN : MELROSE ABBEY : DRYBURGH ABBEY : ABBOTSFORD . SAILING up the river Clyde , we passed large numbers of ships in course of construction , from the formidable man - of - war and fine merchant ship , to various ...
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... chapel adjoin- ing , Mary was crowned Queen of Scots , and her son , afterwards James VI . of Scotland and I. of England , baptized . It was the birthplace of James II . , and of James V. , and a favorite residence of James VI . , who ...
... chapel adjoin- ing , Mary was crowned Queen of Scots , and her son , afterwards James VI . of Scotland and I. of England , baptized . It was the birthplace of James II . , and of James V. , and a favorite residence of James VI . , who ...
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... Chapel , built by the St. Clairs in the IIth century , and in which they were buried in armor , is particularly noted for its fine carvings and Gothic architecture . The Apprentice Pillar , for which the apprentice lost his life ...
... Chapel , built by the St. Clairs in the IIth century , and in which they were buried in armor , is particularly noted for its fine carvings and Gothic architecture . The Apprentice Pillar , for which the apprentice lost his life ...
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... chapel is interesting as the burial place of many royal victims . The war- dens of the Tower still dress in the costumes of the Beef - eaters of the time of Henry VIII . Westminster Abbey was founded in the year 610 , and within its ...
... chapel is interesting as the burial place of many royal victims . The war- dens of the Tower still dress in the costumes of the Beef - eaters of the time of Henry VIII . Westminster Abbey was founded in the year 610 , and within its ...
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... chapel the in- stallation of the Knights of the Garter takes place . St. The Albert Chapel , a memorial to the Prince Consort , was originally erected by Henry VII . as a place of sepulture for himself . Afterwards Car- dinal Wolsey ...
... chapel the in- stallation of the Knights of the Garter takes place . St. The Albert Chapel , a memorial to the Prince Consort , was originally erected by Henry VII . as a place of sepulture for himself . Afterwards Car- dinal Wolsey ...
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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 285 - 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 137 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay: We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding...
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 247 - Gospel of the day, which proclaims the startling announcement, that it is more difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Page 313 - 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.