Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White: Made on the Spot (from Records in the Archives of Switzerland)1846 |
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Sayfa viii
... castle of Chillon , stands a very plain but antique building , now appropriated to the double purposes of a school , and public library . The solemn interior architecture is similar to that of the beautiful church , and its original ...
... castle of Chillon , stands a very plain but antique building , now appropriated to the double purposes of a school , and public library . The solemn interior architecture is similar to that of the beautiful church , and its original ...
Sayfa ix
... castle of Blonay , though only three miles from its site , probably , because one of the lords thereof having fallen in that disastrous battle , which insured the dominion of the Pays - de - Vaud to the house of Savoy , to which he was ...
... castle of Blonay , though only three miles from its site , probably , because one of the lords thereof having fallen in that disastrous battle , which insured the dominion of the Pays - de - Vaud to the house of Savoy , to which he was ...
Sayfa x
... castle , and nearly every castle its accredited chronicler . Destitute of the modern luxuries of books , newspapers , and letters , excepting , indeed , such important epistles as were deemed of sufficient consequence to be expedited by ...
... castle , and nearly every castle its accredited chronicler . Destitute of the modern luxuries of books , newspapers , and letters , excepting , indeed , such important epistles as were deemed of sufficient consequence to be expedited by ...
Sayfa xii
... castles and seques- tered towns of Helvetia . Private chronicles thus continued to be the fashion both in Switzerland and Italy long after they were discontinued in England , where in fact they never existed to any great extent . The ...
... castles and seques- tered towns of Helvetia . Private chronicles thus continued to be the fashion both in Switzerland and Italy long after they were discontinued in England , where in fact they never existed to any great extent . The ...
Sayfa 13
... castles , and the authorised use of torture everywhere , will induce the traveller and historian to applaud , with the philosophic Gibbon , " the merit and happiness of his own time . " Gothic , and forms a noble and sacred shelter for.
... castles , and the authorised use of torture everywhere , will induce the traveller and historian to applaud , with the philosophic Gibbon , " the merit and happiness of his own time . " Gothic , and forms a noble and sacred shelter for.
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