A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs1907 - London (England) - 336 pages |
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... Corner , West- H.M.S. Buzzard minster Abbey Vaulting , Henry VII's 123 Law Courts Chapel • 127 Temple Church ( interior ) Royal Exchange 221 · 222 · 225 231 235 Bank of England The Monument Mansion House Southwark Cathedral Guildhall vi.
... Corner , West- H.M.S. Buzzard minster Abbey Vaulting , Henry VII's 123 Law Courts Chapel • 127 Temple Church ( interior ) Royal Exchange 221 · 222 · 225 231 235 Bank of England The Monument Mansion House Southwark Cathedral Guildhall vi.
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... England The Monument Mansion House Southwark Cathedral Guildhall Fawcett Memorial , Vaux- Cheapside & Bow Church hall Park West Front , St. Paul's Lambeth Palace Cathedral View Eastward from Nelson Monument , St. the Monument Paul's ...
... England The Monument Mansion House Southwark Cathedral Guildhall Fawcett Memorial , Vaux- Cheapside & Bow Church hall Park West Front , St. Paul's Lambeth Palace Cathedral View Eastward from Nelson Monument , St. the Monument Paul's ...
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... England . Connection north and south between these two great thoroughfares is provided by Regent Street in the west ; by Kingsway , the new thoroughfare between Holborn and the Strand ; and by Chancery Lane at the City boundary . 1 ...
... England . Connection north and south between these two great thoroughfares is provided by Regent Street in the west ; by Kingsway , the new thoroughfare between Holborn and the Strand ; and by Chancery Lane at the City boundary . 1 ...
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... England . Woolwich , where the nation's great arsenal is situated , is naturally the home of many engaged in the engineering trades ; and the same is true , in a less degree , of the neighbouring boroughs of Greenwich , Dept- ford and ...
... England . Woolwich , where the nation's great arsenal is situated , is naturally the home of many engaged in the engineering trades ; and the same is true , in a less degree , of the neighbouring boroughs of Greenwich , Dept- ford and ...
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... England and the Stock Exchange , Lombard Street being literally lined with joint - stock and private banks , and Princes Street , Lothbury and the adjacent thoroughfares being almost as well provided with them . Hundreds of stockbrokers ...
... England and the Stock Exchange , Lombard Street being literally lined with joint - stock and private banks , and Princes Street , Lothbury and the adjacent thoroughfares being almost as well provided with them . Hundreds of stockbrokers ...
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Page 123 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
Page 73 - Saxons, who are divided from Kent by the river Thames, and border on the Eastern sea. Their metropolis is the city of London, which is situated on the bank of the aforesaid river, and is the mart of many nations resorting to it by sea and land.
Page xiv - As a Wedding Gift, Birthday Book, or Presentation Volume at any period of the year, or upon any anniversary whatever, Mrs. Beeton's "Household Management" is entitled to the very first place.
Page 337 - CHLORODYNE effectually checks and arrests those too often fatal diseases : Diphtheria, Fever, Croup, Ague. CHLORODYNE acts like a charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms.
Page ix - I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid them the rushing stream of faces of living men with all their motley passions, all their terrible impulses of love, of hunger and of hatred — I mean London.
Page 270 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 335 - FRUIT SALT' is PECULIARLY ADAPTED for any CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS of the LIVER; it possesses the power of reparation when digestion has been disturbed or lost, and PLACES the INVALID on the RIGHT TRACK to HEALTH. A world of woes is avoided by those who keep and use ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT.
Page 168 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? He finds us all brick, and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 114 - THE new world honors him whose lofty plea For England's freedom made her own more sure, Whose song, immortal as its theme, shall be Their common freehold while both worlds endure.
Page xxv - EC MOST CENTRAL FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. Close to Aldersgate Street, Metropolitan Railway Station, and near St. Paul's Cathedral and General Post Office. Homely, Highly Kespec table, and Select ; Bed from Is.