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... River from Chelsea to Hungerford - From Hungerford to London Bridge - From London Bridge to Green- wich - River Steamers PAGE 189 195 . 203 217 The Bridges . Battersea Park Bridge - Blackfriars ' Bridge -- Charing Cross Bridge -Lambeth ...
... River from Chelsea to Hungerford - From Hungerford to London Bridge - From London Bridge to Green- wich - River Steamers PAGE 189 195 . 203 217 The Bridges . Battersea Park Bridge - Blackfriars ' Bridge -- Charing Cross Bridge -Lambeth ...
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... river Thames , some fifty miles from its mouth Its latitude may be roughly taken at 51 ° 31 ' N. It extends intc four counties , but the largest portion is in Middlesex . It returns twenty members to the Commons ' House of Parliament ...
... river Thames , some fifty miles from its mouth Its latitude may be roughly taken at 51 ° 31 ' N. It extends intc four counties , but the largest portion is in Middlesex . It returns twenty members to the Commons ' House of Parliament ...
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... river , the houses and gardens of bishops and noblemen . Previous to the census of 1801 , we are left to conjecture what the population of London was at any given period . By Graunt it was estimated in 1661 to be 384,000 , which number ...
... river , the houses and gardens of bishops and noblemen . Previous to the census of 1801 , we are left to conjecture what the population of London was at any given period . By Graunt it was estimated in 1661 to be 384,000 , which number ...
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... RIVER . The nucleus of London is the City , bounded on the north and east by the borough of Finsbury , on the west by the city of Westminster , to which Marylebone adjoins on the north . In the west there are the districts of Pimlico ...
... RIVER . The nucleus of London is the City , bounded on the north and east by the borough of Finsbury , on the west by the city of Westminster , to which Marylebone adjoins on the north . In the west there are the districts of Pimlico ...
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... river , there being only a brewery and some scattered cottages between it and the Thames . It was a district of public gardens , much frequented on holidays , all of which have given way to buildings . Here are Belgrave , Lowndes ...
... river , there being only a brewery and some scattered cottages between it and the Thames . It was a district of public gardens , much frequented on holidays , all of which have given way to buildings . Here are Belgrave , Lowndes ...
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Page 178 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 76 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 76 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 80 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Page 85 - A most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to ,a healthy and clear complexion.
Page 89 - Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.
Page 76 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 243 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith, — the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.
Page 83 - there have not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and his faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion.
Page 349 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.