Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions best suited for the invalid

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J. Murray, 1855 - Spain
 

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Page 37 - ROWLANDS' ODONTO, OR PEARL DENTIFRICE, A White Powder, compounded of the choicest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the Teeth a Pearl-like Whiteness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts. to the Gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a pleasing fragrance.
Page 110 - The quality of mercy is not strained, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed, — It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
Page 46 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 36 - Holland, and also by English Travellers for the comfort and first-rate accommodation It affords, as well as for the invariable civility shown to visitors. Cold and warm baths may be had at any hour— Carriages for hire. Omnibuses at the Station. Table d'HOte at half-past four, or dinner & la carte.
Page 27 - FRANCS, and that the accommodation is of so comfortable and luxurious a character as to attract the notice of all visitors. Although the GRAND HOTEL DE LYON affords the most elegant accommodation for the highest classes, it is frequented by visitors of the humblest pretensions. Rooms at 2 frs., very comfortably furnished.
Page 230 - You have built here what any one might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world.
Page 146 - Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose work was done; nor ought he to be lamented, who died so full of honours, and at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory: and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely...
Page 107 - qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
Page 37 - Re. 6tZ. per Bottle. The heat of summer also frequently communicates a dryness to the hair, and a tendency to fall off, which may be completely obviated by the use of ROWLANDS...
Page 95 - The picador, if wounded, is carried out and forgotten — los muertos y idos, no tienen amigos (the dead and absent have no friends) —a new combatant fills the gap, the battle rages, he is not missed, fresh incidents arise, and no time is left for regret or reflection. The...

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