A Tour Around the WorldW.S. Gottsberger, 1886 - 430 pages |
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... occupied it , and Queen Victoria visited it in 1847 . Two miles from here is Cardross Castle , where Robert Bruce died in 1329 . Arriving at Balloch Pier , on Loch Lomond , we sailed for two hours amid the many beautiful islands which ...
... occupied it , and Queen Victoria visited it in 1847 . Two miles from here is Cardross Castle , where Robert Bruce died in 1329 . Arriving at Balloch Pier , on Loch Lomond , we sailed for two hours amid the many beautiful islands which ...
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... occupied by Helen MacGregor , Rob Roy's wife . Here , by steamer " Rob Roy , " we sailed through Loch Katrine , which teems with the poetry of Scott's " Lady of the Lake , " passing the island where Rob Roy put the steward ashore and ...
... occupied by Helen MacGregor , Rob Roy's wife . Here , by steamer " Rob Roy , " we sailed through Loch Katrine , which teems with the poetry of Scott's " Lady of the Lake , " passing the island where Rob Roy put the steward ashore and ...
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... occupied by Charles I. From Darnley's apartments leading up to Queen Mary's rooms , is a private staircase by which the assassins of Rizzio ascended to murder that un- fortunate secretary . Mary's supper room , an apartment so famous in ...
... occupied by Charles I. From Darnley's apartments leading up to Queen Mary's rooms , is a private staircase by which the assassins of Rizzio ascended to murder that un- fortunate secretary . Mary's supper room , an apartment so famous in ...
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... occupied by Queen Mary for several weeks . Walking along the river , a distance of two miles , through a romantic and lovely ravine , we reached Hawthornden , the home of the poet Drummond . Here is to be seen the sword of Robert Bruce ...
... occupied by Queen Mary for several weeks . Walking along the river , a distance of two miles , through a romantic and lovely ravine , we reached Hawthornden , the home of the poet Drummond . Here is to be seen the sword of Robert Bruce ...
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... occupied remains the same to this day , under its present owner , Earl George Guy Grev- ille . In the conservatory is the celebrated War- wick vase , found at the bottom of the lake at Hadrian's villa ; it is a fine specimen of Grecian ...
... occupied remains the same to this day , under its present owner , Earl George Guy Grev- ille . In the conservatory is the celebrated War- wick vase , found at the bottom of the lake at Hadrian's villa ; it is a fine specimen of Grecian ...
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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.