A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs1907 - London (England) - 336 pages |
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... Room , 81 Kensington Palace . 165 85 Albert Hall 167 87 Albert Memorial 168 91 Marble Arch 170 Dr. Johnson awaiting audience at Lord Chesterfield's ( Ward ) . Studies at the Zoo 179 Oxford Circus 184 100 British Museum 187 The South Sea ...
... Room , 81 Kensington Palace . 165 85 Albert Hall 167 87 Albert Memorial 168 91 Marble Arch 170 Dr. Johnson awaiting audience at Lord Chesterfield's ( Ward ) . Studies at the Zoo 179 Oxford Circus 184 100 British Museum 187 The South Sea ...
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... Rooms . Lifts Electric Light Baths Conservatory Night Porter Room , Table d'hote Breakfast & Attendance 5 / - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management Half Roan , 7/6 net ; Half Calf or Half Morocco , 12/6 net ; Full Calf or Tree Calf ...
... Rooms . Lifts Electric Light Baths Conservatory Night Porter Room , Table d'hote Breakfast & Attendance 5 / - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management Half Roan , 7/6 net ; Half Calf or Half Morocco , 12/6 net ; Full Calf or Tree Calf ...
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... Room , Breakfast , light and attendance , 5 / - Full Pension from 7 / - per day . A WEEK IN BRUSSELS with visit to the Waterloo Battlefield , for £ 5 5 0 including 2nd class return ticket from London , vid Dover , by the Royal Belgian ...
... Room , Breakfast , light and attendance , 5 / - Full Pension from 7 / - per day . A WEEK IN BRUSSELS with visit to the Waterloo Battlefield , for £ 5 5 0 including 2nd class return ticket from London , vid Dover , by the Royal Belgian ...
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... room is of fine propor- tions , and in it 250 guests are frequently dining at the same time , while in the vestibule connecting this room with the entrance hall an extremely good orchestra plays nightly . The management of this imposing ...
... room is of fine propor- tions , and in it 250 guests are frequently dining at the same time , while in the vestibule connecting this room with the entrance hall an extremely good orchestra plays nightly . The management of this imposing ...
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... room at the Victoria and Albert Museum , near the entrance from Exhi- bition Road . There are also restaurants at the British Museum , the Tate Gallery , and other show places . Ladies shopping at any of the large drapery establishments ...
... room at the Victoria and Albert Museum , near the entrance from Exhi- bition Road . There are also restaurants at the British Museum , the Tate Gallery , and other show places . Ladies shopping at any of the large drapery establishments ...
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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.