Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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... finest things that architectural genius has for many ages produced . In front , there is a porti- co , as grand as that of the Pantheon ; behind this , a dome of most majestic height and dimen- sion is lifted above a hall , around the ...
... finest things that architectural genius has for many ages produced . In front , there is a porti- co , as grand as that of the Pantheon ; behind this , a dome of most majestic height and dimen- sion is lifted above a hall , around the ...
Page 13
... finest situation , and the finest city in the world . But I have wandered widely from St Giles's and the Parliament Close . The southern side of the square , and a small part of the eastern side , are filled with vene- rable Gothic ...
... finest situation , and the finest city in the world . But I have wandered widely from St Giles's and the Parliament Close . The southern side of the square , and a small part of the eastern side , are filled with vene- rable Gothic ...
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... into the Parliament - House by the shoes of the multitude resorting thither , and kept flying about by the stir of their tumultuous parade . They are really the finest beaux I have seen in this city , or so at least they CLERKS . 21 Clerks.
... into the Parliament - House by the shoes of the multitude resorting thither , and kept flying about by the stir of their tumultuous parade . They are really the finest beaux I have seen in this city , or so at least they CLERKS . 21 Clerks.
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... finest black eyes I ever saw , although he commonly keeps them half - shrouded under their lids and I have no doubt , from the mode in which he delivered himself , that he must have been a most accomplished debater when at the Bar . At ...
... finest black eyes I ever saw , although he commonly keeps them half - shrouded under their lids and I have no doubt , from the mode in which he delivered himself , that he must have been a most accomplished debater when at the Bar . At ...
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... finest field ; and a cer- tain impatience of all ornament , has prevented him from rivalling them in writing . Neither , as I am informed , has he ever been able to pene- trate into the depths of legal arguments with the same clear ...
... finest field ; and a cer- tain impatience of all ornament , has prevented him from rivalling them in writing . Neither , as I am informed , has he ever been able to pene- trate into the depths of legal arguments with the same clear ...
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