A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 oldal |
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30. oldal
... piece . This coin is very convenient small change . A quarter guilder , or five stiver piece . This coin , I am told , is very rare ; I met with none of it . A zesthalven , or five stivers and four doyts . This is a piece of base metal ...
... piece . This coin is very convenient small change . A quarter guilder , or five stiver piece . This coin , I am told , is very rare ; I met with none of it . A zesthalven , or five stivers and four doyts . This is a piece of base metal ...
31. oldal
... piece . A silver piece , little larger than a six- pence , and the eighth part of a rix - dollar . Eight stiver piece . A larger , but thinner piece than a schellingen , not much in circulation . Ten stiver piece . Worth half a guilder ...
... piece . A silver piece , little larger than a six- pence , and the eighth part of a rix - dollar . Eight stiver piece . A larger , but thinner piece than a schellingen , not much in circulation . Ten stiver piece . Worth half a guilder ...
32. oldal
... pieces . This abominably mean practice existed in England in a higher degree , and still continues in part in the shape of card money . If I remember correctly , we are indebted to Mr. Hanway the philanthropist , whose life is given in ...
... pieces . This abominably mean practice existed in England in a higher degree , and still continues in part in the shape of card money . If I remember correctly , we are indebted to Mr. Hanway the philanthropist , whose life is given in ...
39. oldal
... piece , which was charged with slugs , requested the women to keep them- selves in a back room out of the way of danger . Soon after the door was bursted in , two ruffians entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged ...
... piece , which was charged with slugs , requested the women to keep them- selves in a back room out of the way of danger . Soon after the door was bursted in , two ruffians entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged ...
45. oldal
... piece of luxury the value of eight and even ten guineas is frequently paid . The lower orders of society , and many of the higher , carry in their pockets their pipe , a pricker to clear the tube , a piece of tinder made in Germany from ...
... piece of luxury the value of eight and even ten guineas is frequently paid . The lower orders of society , and many of the higher , carry in their pockets their pipe , a pricker to clear the tube , a piece of tinder made in Germany from ...
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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38. oldal - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate: and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind; And call him noble, that was now your hate, Him vile, that was your garland.
214. oldal - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
229. oldal - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
271. oldal - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
60. oldal - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
6. oldal - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
7. oldal - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
116. oldal - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
276. oldal - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
46. oldal - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.