The Original Bath Guide: Historical and Descriptive : Containing Walks and Drives Round Bath, the Medicinal Uses of the Mineral Waters, the Geology of the NeighbourhoodLewis & Tyte, 1885 - 175 pages |
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... walls of the city . It was only by accident rather more than a century ago that some traces and remains of these ancient works were revealed , and a large portion has been recently uncovered . During the Roman period an idle and ...
... walls of the city . It was only by accident rather more than a century ago that some traces and remains of these ancient works were revealed , and a large portion has been recently uncovered . During the Roman period an idle and ...
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... as well . The old walls even at this period enclosed the whole of the city , and the Corporation discouraged building beyond ; but now new streets sprang up on the north , east and west , churches and chapels GUIDE TO BATH . II.
... as well . The old walls even at this period enclosed the whole of the city , and the Corporation discouraged building beyond ; but now new streets sprang up on the north , east and west , churches and chapels GUIDE TO BATH . II.
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... walls disappeared !, the Guildhall was rebuilt , the Grand Pump Room arid the Baths in Stall Street erected , as well as many other improvements undertaken by the Corporation , so that in fact the city assumed practically the appearance ...
... walls disappeared !, the Guildhall was rebuilt , the Grand Pump Room arid the Baths in Stall Street erected , as well as many other improvements undertaken by the Corporation , so that in fact the city assumed practically the appearance ...
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... walls , was extended to the farm of Barton and a large part of the parish of Walcot . The civil government was vested in a Mayor , Recorder , ten Aldermen , twenty Common Council- men , with a Chamberlain and Town Clerk , two High ...
... walls , was extended to the farm of Barton and a large part of the parish of Walcot . The civil government was vested in a Mayor , Recorder , ten Aldermen , twenty Common Council- men , with a Chamberlain and Town Clerk , two High ...
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... wall , with a small building in the centre , having three niches , or alcoves ; the whole encircled by the legend , " Sigillum Civium Urbis Bathonia . " The arms of Bath are per fesse embattled az . and gu . , the base masoned sa ...
... wall , with a small building in the centre , having three niches , or alcoves ; the whole encircled by the legend , " Sigillum Civium Urbis Bathonia . " The arms of Bath are per fesse embattled az . and gu . , the base masoned sa ...
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Abbey adjoining aisle ancient architect Bath Waters Batheaston Bathwick Beau Nash beautiful Beckford's tower beds Bishop Bladud BOND STREET borough Bradford Clay bridge Bristol building built Cemetery centre century chancel chapel charity Charlcombe church Claverton Clayton and Bell College contains Corporation district east window edifice elegant Englishcombe erected ESTABLISHED Grand Pump Room ground handsome hill Hotel improved Institution John John de Villula King King's Bath Lady laid Lansdown London Lord Lyncombe manor house Mayor memory Messrs miles Milsom Street Mineral Water Hospital nave Norman obtained occupies Oolite ORIGINAL BATH parish passed portion present Price Prince Prior Private Baths Pulteney Queen Railway Ralph Allen remains restoration Road Roman ROUND BATH Royal Royal United Hospital School seen side situated Somerset Southstoke stone style subscription SULIS WATER supplied tower transept upper visitor Walcot walls West of England Widcombe
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Page xiv - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page xii - Of all the gay places the world can afford, By gentle and simple for pastime ador'd, Fine balls, and fine concerts, fine buildings, and springs, Fine walks, and fine views, and a thousand fine things, (Not to mention the sweet situation and air) What place, my dear mother, with Bath can compare...
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Page x - The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, cats, and pigs; and even human creatures are hurled over the rails into the water." It is not so bad as that now, but lodgings are still held at rates which might be advantageously tempered to the shorn. I append the result of a chemical analysis I caused to be made of these incomparable Waters, that the fame of their virtues may no longer rest upon the inadequate basis of their observed...
Page 30 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 127 - Professor JOHN ATTFIELD PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN; AUTHOR OF A MANUAL OF GENERAL, MEDICAL, AND PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY. " I have annually, for the past ten years, made an independent analysis of Pears' Soap, and have not found it to vary in quality or in composition.
Page x - In this battle, on the king's part, there were more officers and gentlemen of quality slain, than common men ; and more hurt than slain. That which would have clouded any victory, and made the loss of others less spoken of, was the death of sir Bevil...
Page 26 - King, bishop of the diocese, who, it is asserted, was prompted to the good work by a vision he beheld in his...
Page 2 - These are the arms of WELLS only, the see in fact, though having a double name, being but one bishopric of which the seat is at Wells. The Arm