| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1827 - 416 pages
...the most conspicuous objects in the western parts of the Merse. It is a vast modern seat, supposed to have as many windows as there are days in the year. The former edifice and the estate belonged to a family of the name of Hatelie ; but for at least a... | |
| Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1829 - 428 pages
...Largie Crags. Still farther to the west, maybe seen Mellerstain House, a very large modern mansion, said to have as many windows as there are days in the year. Flodden Field, the scene of the celebrated battle in 1513, is situated about six miles from Coldstream... | |
| Scotland - 1836 - 536 pages
...Largie Crags, Still farther to the west may he seen Mettentain House, a very large modern mansion, said to have as many windows as there are days in the year. Flodden Field, the scene of the celebrated battle in 1513, is situated about six miles from Coldstream.... | |
| Arthur Freeling - Birmingham (England) - 1838 - 246 pages
...extreme distance, and in the intermediate space Teddesley Hall, the seat of Lord Hatherton; it is reputed to have as many windows as there are days in the year. DDNSTON is a township and chapelry in the parish of Penkridge, county of Stafford. Pop. 272 ; An. As.... | |
| Arthur Freeling - Great Britain - 1838 - 508 pages
...extreme distance, and in the intermediate space Teddesley Hall, the seat of Lord Hatherton; it is reputed to have as many windows as there are days in the year. miles, bound the view. Two hundred yards further on we enter an excavation of a mile and a half in... | |
| John Kitto - Biblical scholars - 1856 - 752 pages
...point of view, it was somewhat obstructed by a large house, which, like Salisbury Cathedral, seemed to have as many windows as there are days in the year. The fine tower is of the cupola style, such as we see generally in the London churches, and which always... | |
| John Thomas Blight - Cornwall (England : County) - 1860 - 206 pages
...at Coldrennick Viaduct, about 140 feet high. Coldrennick is the seat of Mr. Trelawney, the mansion is said to have as many windows as there are days in the year. The spire of Menheniot Church will also be observed on the right. To the left are the rocks called... | |
| Jane Anne Winscom - Great Britain - 1861 - 466 pages
...high hill covered with trees. On another branch of this river, is the seat of Lord Hatheron, which is said to have as many windows as there are days in the year. About fifteen miles from Stafford is Lichfield, one of England's cathedral towns. The cathedral is... | |
| Augusta Parker (hon.) - 1870 - 296 pages
...what a nice feeling porter he must have been ! Some one told me the other day that Salisbury Cathedral is said to have as many windows as there are days in the year, as many doors as months, and as many pillars as hours. I wonder if it is true?' ' I can't say indeed... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1881 - 146 pages
...boasts of a famous cathedral, with a spire 404 feet high, which is the highest in England. The cathedral is said to have as many windows as there are days in the year, as many doors as there are months, and as many pillars as there are hours in a month.—The chief manufacture... | |
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