Pelton's illustrated guide to Tunbridge Wells

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Side 36 - The Land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai. Illustrated by Pen and Pencil. By Rev.
Side 11 - As soon as the evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling green, where in the open air those who choose dance upon a turf more soft and smooth than the finest carpet in the world.
Side 135 - Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports in the reign of...
Side 33 - CapitalStock, and all the real improvements in modern practice, with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of More than a Century and a Half.
Side 134 - Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Side 30 - The great author was accustomed to be adored. A gentler wind never puffed mortal vanity. Enraptured spinsters flung tea-leaves round him, and incensed him with the coffee-pot. Matrons kissed the slippers they had worked for him. There was a halo of virtue round his night-cap. All Europe had thrilled, panted, admired, trembled, wept over the pages of the immortal little kind, honest man with the round paunch. Harry came back quite glowing and proud at having a bow from him. "Ah!
Side 19 - His equipage was sumptuous, and he usually travelled to Tunbridge in a post chariot and six greys, with outriders, footmen, French horns, and every other appendage of expensive parade.
Side 33 - Esq. FIRE ASSURANCES on liberal terms. LIFE ASSURANCES with or without participation in profits. LOANS are granted on security of LIFE INTERESTS in connexion with Policies of Assurance.
Side 3 - The use of Tunbridge and Epsom waters, for health and cure, I first made known to London and the king's people : the Spa ( in Germany ) is a chargeable and inconvenient journey to sick bodies, besides the money it carries out of the kingdom, and inconvenience to religion. Much more I could say, but I rather hint than handle — rather open a door to a large prospect than give it.
Side 38 - Order of the Books of the Bible ; Chronological Table of the Kings and Prophets of Judah and Israel, in Parallel Columns; a Summary View of the principal events of the period from the close of the sacred Canon of the Old Testament, until the times of the New Testament; an Account of the Jewish and other Sects and Factions; a Table of the principal Messianic Prophecies ; a List of Passages in the Old Testament quoted or alluded to in the New Testament...

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