The continent in 1835, sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France1836 |
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... traveller , the passport and searching system . This settled - and the scramble for us among the inn - keepers ' agents over - we were com- fortably domiciliated , with about a dozen other English people , at the Cour Impériale . Some ...
... traveller , the passport and searching system . This settled - and the scramble for us among the inn - keepers ' agents over - we were com- fortably domiciliated , with about a dozen other English people , at the Cour Impériale . Some ...
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... travellers whom curiosity attracts to their dull convent . The churches in this city are fine . St. Anne's is a handsome building in the Grecian style , and was under repair . The cathedral of St. Donato is a large and massive , but ...
... travellers whom curiosity attracts to their dull convent . The churches in this city are fine . St. Anne's is a handsome building in the Grecian style , and was under repair . The cathedral of St. Donato is a large and massive , but ...
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... traveller who has recently left England . In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , Bruges was the mart of nations ; and during the period of its prosperity , a forest of shipping might be seen in its port of Sluys . It was a leading ...
... traveller who has recently left England . In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , Bruges was the mart of nations ; and during the period of its prosperity , a forest of shipping might be seen in its port of Sluys . It was a leading ...
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... traveller to abound in images and memorials of decayed grandeur . It was the dusk of the evening before we arrived at the Hotel de Flandre , having been seven hours travelling about thirty miles - the distance from Bruges . 16 GHENT ,
... traveller to abound in images and memorials of decayed grandeur . It was the dusk of the evening before we arrived at the Hotel de Flandre , having been seven hours travelling about thirty miles - the distance from Bruges . 16 GHENT ,
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... traveller a week , but we could spare no more than a day . It is much larger than Bruges , but less pleasing in its general appearance ; though the views of the massy ranges of buildings from some of its three hundred bridges over the ...
... traveller a week , but we could spare no more than a day . It is much larger than Bruges , but less pleasing in its general appearance ; though the views of the massy ranges of buildings from some of its three hundred bridges over the ...
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