Handbook for Shropshire and CheshireJohn Murray, 1879 - 174 Seiten |
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Seite 12 - THIS HOTEL is situated on the Lower Lake, close to the water's edge, within ten minutes' drive of the Railway Station, and a short distance from the far-famed Gap of Dunloe.
Seite 41 - KRONPRINZ HOTEL.— Honoured by the presence of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, on the occasion of his recent visit to this Town. This First-class Hotel is particularly recommended for its large and airy Apartments, having the finest situation near the Station, facing the Palace, and joining a fine garden.
Seite 16 - If properly prepared, there is no nicer or more wholesome preparation of Cocoa.— food, Water, and Air, DR.
Seite 6 - ST, GEORGE, THIS FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, very well situated on the best side of the Esplanade, close to the Royal Palace, is fitted up after the English style, affording first-rate accommodation for Families and Single Gentlemen. Excellent Pension, and prices very moderate. A large addition to the Hotel Just now finished makes it one of the most comfortable of the...
Seite xxiv - I have just recommended an aqueduct of iron. It has been approved, and will be executed under my direction, upon a principle entirely new, and which I am endeavouring to establish with regard to the application of iron.
Seite 100 - Gang, from a place of that name between Macclesfield and Congleton. These associated with the Flashmen at fairs, playing with thimbles and buttons, like jugglers with cups and balls, and enticing people to lose their money by gambling ; they at length took to the kindred trades of robbing and picking pockets, till at last the gang was broken up by the hands of justice. The character of Autolicus, in Shakspeare's ' Winter Tale,' seems to have been a correct model of this worthy brotherhood.
Seite 12 - What sends picturesque tourists to the Rhine and Saxon Switzerland ? within five miles round the pretty inn of Glengariff there is a country of the magnificence of which no pen can give an idea. I would like to be a great prince, and bring a train of painters over to make, if they could, and according to their several capabilities., a set of pictures of the place.
Seite 81 - ... the list of such as compounded for their reputed delinquency in our late civil wars, I find Francis Sandford, Esq., of Sandford, paying four hundred and fifty-nine pounds for his composition, yet I believe the gentleman begrudged not his money, in preservation of his own integrity, acting according to the information of his conscience and the practice of his ancestors.
Seite 28 - If we consider that the manipulation of cast-iron was then completely in its infancy, a bridge of such dimensions was doubtless a bold as well as an original undertaking, and the efficiency of the details is worthy of the boldness of the conception."* Mr.
Seite 124 - ... miles from Chester, had intercepted a letter from Pointz, (who had marched a much shorter way, after he was informed which way the king was bound,) to the commander that was before Chester, telling him, " that he was come to their rescue, and desiring to have some foot sent to him, to assist him against the king's horse :" and the next morning he appeared, and was charged by sir Marmaduke Langdale, and forced to retire with loss ; but kept still at such a distance, that the foot from before Chester...