A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs1907 - London (England) - 336 pages |
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... century ( Nebot ) Gladstone Memorial . Victoria Embankment , 212 207 214 218 Abbey 122 Eastern End Poets ' Corner , West- H.M.S. Buzzard minster Abbey Vaulting , Henry VII's 123 Law Courts Chapel • 127 Temple Church ( interior ) Royal ...
... century ( Nebot ) Gladstone Memorial . Victoria Embankment , 212 207 214 218 Abbey 122 Eastern End Poets ' Corner , West- H.M.S. Buzzard minster Abbey Vaulting , Henry VII's 123 Law Courts Chapel • 127 Temple Church ( interior ) Royal ...
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... Century HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES has been firmly established in the public favour as A WORK WHICH HAS NO Rival , and as a work which is indispensable in every office or place of business , every library and every home . Haydn's ...
... Century HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES has been firmly established in the public favour as A WORK WHICH HAS NO Rival , and as a work which is indispensable in every office or place of business , every library and every home . Haydn's ...
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66 SHOPS AND SHOPPING . A fair lady of the eighteenth century , in a letter which has been preserved to us , aptly ... centuries the Thames was London's most important highway and the scene of all her greatest pageants and ceremonies ...
66 SHOPS AND SHOPPING . A fair lady of the eighteenth century , in a letter which has been preserved to us , aptly ... centuries the Thames was London's most important highway and the scene of all her greatest pageants and ceremonies ...
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... century , London became a walled city . The direction the London Wall took is well known , and can be traced by the modern names of streets . Indeed , con- siderable fragments , composed chiefly of Kentish ragstone and large Roman ...
... century , London became a walled city . The direction the London Wall took is well known , and can be traced by the modern names of streets . Indeed , con- siderable fragments , composed chiefly of Kentish ragstone and large Roman ...
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... centuries , so rapid had become the increase of London , that both Elizabeth and James I issued proclamations against any ... century to 1665 , was nothing but the accumulated filth of London , so that the ground on which it stood was ...
... centuries , so rapid had become the increase of London , that both Elizabeth and James I issued proclamations against any ... century to 1665 , was nothing but the accumulated filth of London , so that the ground on which it stood was ...
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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.