Travels Through Germany: Containing Observations on Customs, Manners, Religion, Government, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a Particular Account of the Courts of Mecklenburg. In a Series of Letters to a Friend, by Thomas Nugent, ... Embellished with Elegant Cuts ... In Two Volumes. ...Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768 - 395 pages |
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... pleasant . If the merchants houses are fo convenient for trade , they are greatly deficient in point of neatness and elegance . They are conftruc- ted in a pyramidical form , like the Dutch houses , gradually leffening to the fummit ...
... pleasant . If the merchants houses are fo convenient for trade , they are greatly deficient in point of neatness and elegance . They are conftruc- ted in a pyramidical form , like the Dutch houses , gradually leffening to the fummit ...
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... , and almost the whole length of the houfe : moft of their genteel weddings and public entertainments are kept in this place . It is a great gazebo , being all one win- dow , dow , from whence you have a pleasant view of 48 LETTER II .
... , and almost the whole length of the houfe : moft of their genteel weddings and public entertainments are kept in this place . It is a great gazebo , being all one win- dow , dow , from whence you have a pleasant view of 48 LETTER II .
Page 49
... pleasant view of a fine fruitful country , of a rich populous city , and of a noble river covered with fhips , whose mafts appear like a great foreft , extend- ing down below the town of Altena . The fituation of Hamburg , on fo ...
... pleasant view of a fine fruitful country , of a rich populous city , and of a noble river covered with fhips , whose mafts appear like a great foreft , extend- ing down below the town of Altena . The fituation of Hamburg , on fo ...
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... pleasant village , where a fair was held at that very time , which drew a vast concourfe of people . We got out of the croud as foon as poffible , and went to fee baron Schmalman's gardens : they had been greatly magnified to us in ...
... pleasant village , where a fair was held at that very time , which drew a vast concourfe of people . We got out of the croud as foon as poffible , and went to fee baron Schmalman's gardens : they had been greatly magnified to us in ...
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... pleasant village where they have a variety of gardens ; the chief are thofe of M. Greves , and the two brothers of the name of Rey- ners . M. Greve's gardens are much in the fame taste as thofe of M. Pichel's , but not of fo great a ...
... pleasant village where they have a variety of gardens ; the chief are thofe of M. Greves , and the two brothers of the name of Rey- ners . M. Greve's gardens are much in the fame taste as thofe of M. Pichel's , but not of fo great a ...
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Page 158 - Tfris fixes the situation of the Varini and the Angli, the former inhabiting that part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg which extends along the banks of the Warnow ; and the latter the remaining part of the country as far as Lubeck. Such a display of erudition was at first productive of surprise, but afterwards created a good deal of merriment; the company wishing Dr. Nugent joy, that Dr. B. had proved the Mecklenburghers and the Knglish to be one and the same nation.
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Page 143 - AS when a traveller, a long day paft In painful fearch of what he cannot find, At night's approach, content with the next cot, There ruminates...