The continent in 1835, sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France1836 |
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... Heights - Sunday fair - Fête de la Sainte Vierge - Historical Sketch , from the Roman Invasion - Battle between Caesar and the Nervii - Frankish dominion - Dependence on the Empire— Petty States - House of Burgundy - Spanish connexion ...
... Heights - Sunday fair - Fête de la Sainte Vierge - Historical Sketch , from the Roman Invasion - Battle between Caesar and the Nervii - Frankish dominion - Dependence on the Empire— Petty States - House of Burgundy - Spanish connexion ...
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... height , very indiffer- ently harnessed , and with rope traces , reminded us that we were no longer in our own land . The large white caps of the women , the hoods of their black cloaks , used instead of bonnets , and the ap- pearance ...
... height , very indiffer- ently harnessed , and with rope traces , reminded us that we were no longer in our own land . The large white caps of the women , the hoods of their black cloaks , used instead of bonnets , and the ap- pearance ...
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... height , in rude and striking , though artificial grandeur ; and the whole place is crowded with statues of scriptural , legendary , and angelic personages . On the top of the dark rocks is the Saviour , on the cross ; many yards below ...
... height , in rude and striking , though artificial grandeur ; and the whole place is crowded with statues of scriptural , legendary , and angelic personages . On the top of the dark rocks is the Saviour , on the cross ; many yards below ...
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... height , in rude and striking , though artificial grandeur ; and the whole place is crowded with statues of scriptural , legendary , and angelic personages . On the top of the dark rocks is the Saviour , on the cross ; many yards below ...
... height , in rude and striking , though artificial grandeur ; and the whole place is crowded with statues of scriptural , legendary , and angelic personages . On the top of the dark rocks is the Saviour , on the cross ; many yards below ...
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... height , would have been almost a second Babel , had the original design for its elevation been executed ; but though unfinished , it is still a sufficiently towering monument of ecclesiastical ambition . This church is certainly a ...
... height , would have been almost a second Babel , had the original design for its elevation been executed ; but though unfinished , it is still a sufficiently towering monument of ecclesiastical ambition . This church is certainly a ...
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