London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers

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K. Baedeker, 1923 - 502 páginas
 

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Página 196 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Página 199 - On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture and the elaborate beauty of sculptured detail.
Página 199 - 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. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved of oak, though with the grotesque decorations of Gothic architecture. On the pinnacles of the stalls are affixed the helmets and crests of the...
Página xxviii - And I will that every child be his father's heir, after his father's day. And I will not suffer that any man do you any wrong. God preserve you.
Página xxviii - I will that ye twain be worthy of all the law that ye were worthy of in King Edward's day. And I will that every child be his father's heir after his father's day ; and I will not endure that any man offer any wrong to you. God keep you.
Página 50 - To provide a place of meeting for all gentlemen connected with the Colonies and British India, and others taking an interest in Colonial and Indian affairs ; to establish a...
Página 444 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow • the careful, tender mother of many children, ONE of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Página 382 - Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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