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Old and New London
… of England. In 1663, a notorious impostor, called the "German Princess," was incarcerated here, for having enticed a … books, now so rare that scarcely a copy is known even to German bibliographers; and returning to England about 1472, …
Old and New London
… half a century ago. Queen Charlotte, however, true to her German associations, as we learn in the work quoted above, … up, either here or at Kew Palace, in the room of her German attendant. "It was hung," writes the authoress, "with …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… a summer-house, as its upper floor commanded a view of the German Ocean, but tradition relates that it was early …
A History of the County of Somerset
… used in 2000 for flying microlight aircraft. 1 In 1941 a German Heinkel was shot down at Andersea. 2 MANOR AND OTHER …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and other dissenters. In Little Aylie-street is the German Lutheran church, dedicated to St. George, a neat … with a campanile turret; and in Hooper's-square is a German Calvinistic chapel. The parochial school, originally …
Old and New London
… of Whitefriars are of great size. In 1807 Mr. Winsor, a German, first lit a part of London (Pall Mall) with gas, and …
Survey of London
… and the building with the Venetian window is evidently the German Chapel at St. James's. "Ordered that the Committee for …
Old and New London
… people that must nicely understand it. If an Italian, a German, or a Frenchman should by chance come into these …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and drew some different kinds of lenses. No news. The German papers are full of a rumour of the evacuation of the … against the alliance, we wish to have nothing to do with German politics. The best thing he can do is to go back to …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… what with swindlers, bankrupts, garotters, burglars, the German Legion, etc. etc., we are neither safe at home at …
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