A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties |
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Of the illustrations I have only to remark that I trust they will lend an added interest to the account of our wanderings out of the beaten tourist track . I have to express my thanks to Mr. Pearson for the care he has taken in ...
Of the illustrations I have only to remark that I trust they will lend an added interest to the account of our wanderings out of the beaten tourist track . I have to express my thanks to Mr. Pearson for the care he has taken in ...
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Certainly not I. And here let me remark that he who has never travelled through rural England by road or footpath in the green and sunny month of June , knows little of the supreme loveliness of his own land . Having decided to take our ...
Certainly not I. And here let me remark that he who has never travelled through rural England by road or footpath in the green and sunny month of June , knows little of the supreme loveliness of his own land . Having decided to take our ...
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Our first day's stage , I may here remark , took us to the Langdon Hills , the ' Highlands of Essex ' ( of which more anon ) , and we left that county by a steep hill top of which was a prominent notice board with the following warning ...
Our first day's stage , I may here remark , took us to the Langdon Hills , the ' Highlands of Essex ' ( of which more anon ) , and we left that county by a steep hill top of which was a prominent notice board with the following warning ...
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But perhaps even more interesting than all is an altar - tomb beneath which , tradition states , is buried the head of the unfortunate Queen Anne Boleyn , and , as an old body sagely remarked to me , ' there is no record of her head ...
But perhaps even more interesting than all is an altar - tomb beneath which , tradition states , is buried the head of the unfortunate Queen Anne Boleyn , and , as an old body sagely remarked to me , ' there is no record of her head ...
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We soon discovered that he was one of the ever - narrowing circle of those who were ostlers in the coaching age . · Yes , sir , ' he said to us in reply to a remark of ours , it be a queer rambling building , that it be . be ...
We soon discovered that he was one of the ever - narrowing circle of those who were ostlers in the coaching age . · Yes , sir , ' he said to us in reply to a remark of ours , it be a queer rambling building , that it be . be ...
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A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties ... With sixteen ... James John Hissey Visos knygos peržiūra - 1889 |
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ancient appeared artist asked beauty better building built called carved century charming church clerk coaching comfortable coming cottage course cross curious delightful discovered driving drove effect England English fact farmer fields fresh gathered give given grand green hand hill horses inns inscription interest journey kind land landscape leaving less light live London look matter miles never noticed observed old-fashioned once ourselves painted passed past perhaps picture picturesque pleasant portion possesses possibly present pretty quaint railway remains remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seemed seen side standing stone strange street structure surely thing told took tower town traveller trees village walls weather wild wind wonder woods
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| Pavadinimas | A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties |
| Autorius | James John Hissey |
| Leidėjas | Richard Bentley & Son, 1889 |
| Originalas iš | Harvardo universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 8 gegužės 2008 |
| Ilgis | 403 psl. |
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