A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University. Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Edifices, the Buildings in Each of the Colleges; the Gardens, ... To which are Added, Descriptions of ... Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham and Stow, ... A New Edition, Corrected, Much Enlarged, and Adorned with a Plan of the University and City, and Six Other PlatesJ. Cooke, 1798 - 152 pages |
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... view of Magdalen College Tower , and a beautiful bridge . Every turn of this ftreet presents a new object , and a different view , each of which would make an agreeable picture in perspective ; whereas , had it been ftraight , every ...
... view of Magdalen College Tower , and a beautiful bridge . Every turn of this ftreet presents a new object , and a different view , each of which would make an agreeable picture in perspective ; whereas , had it been ftraight , every ...
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... view of afcertaining their original claim , the University attend their fermons in it every Sunday in the afternoon during Lent . The tower and eaft end are curious pieces of antiquity . In the year 1760 this Church was beautified and ...
... view of afcertaining their original claim , the University attend their fermons in it every Sunday in the afternoon during Lent . The tower and eaft end are curious pieces of antiquity . In the year 1760 this Church was beautified and ...
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... , fome parts of it running in ftraight lines with the trees regularly cut ; others winding , and the trees * See the Perfpective View annexed . B 4 growing growing little otherwife than as nature directs . On the FOR 31 OXFORD .
... , fome parts of it running in ftraight lines with the trees regularly cut ; others winding , and the trees * See the Perfpective View annexed . B 4 growing growing little otherwife than as nature directs . On the FOR 31 OXFORD .
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... after . The moft advantageous view of it , is from the Phyfic Garden . The Tower con- tains a very mufical peal of ten Bells . Vifitor . The Bishop of Winchester . QUEEN'S ON QUEEN'S COLLEGE . N the north fide of the 32 COMPANION NEW.
... after . The moft advantageous view of it , is from the Phyfic Garden . The Tower con- tains a very mufical peal of ten Bells . Vifitor . The Bishop of Winchester . QUEEN'S ON QUEEN'S COLLEGE . N the north fide of the 32 COMPANION NEW.
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... view to this , that the Founders ordered their new Seminary to be called the King's Hall and Col- lege of Brazen - nose : and a similar Appendage is ftill confpicuous over the portal . Over the door of the Refectory are two very an ...
... view to this , that the Founders ordered their new Seminary to be called the King's Hall and Col- lege of Brazen - nose : and a similar Appendage is ftill confpicuous over the portal . Over the door of the Refectory are two very an ...
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