Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, by W. Thornbury (E. Walford). |
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... feet above the level of the river Thames at high water , during spring - tides . This mine of wealth - the present suburb , or rather city , of Belgravia , for such it has become passed into the possession of the Grosvenor family in ...
... feet above the level of the river Thames at high water , during spring - tides . This mine of wealth - the present suburb , or rather city , of Belgravia , for such it has become passed into the possession of the Grosvenor family in ...
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... feet in length , and forms a rather handsome elevation . The building contains a lecture theatre and an anatomical museum . The expenses of the institution are defrayed by voluntary contributions , and by the interest of funded property ...
... feet in length , and forms a rather handsome elevation . The building contains a lecture theatre and an anatomical museum . The expenses of the institution are defrayed by voluntary contributions , and by the interest of funded property ...
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... feet , it was called by the common people ' The Devil ; ' while the Bacchanalian revellers were transmuted , by a comic process , into the ' Bag of Nails . ' 939 In Grosvenor Row , a thoroughfare which has disappeared in the march of ...
... feet , it was called by the common people ' The Devil ; ' while the Bacchanalian revellers were transmuted , by a comic process , into the ' Bag of Nails . ' 939 In Grosvenor Row , a thoroughfare which has disappeared in the march of ...
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... feet . His funeral took place on the 3rd of August , in Westminster Abbey . On that day , his friend's son , Thomas Babington Macaulay , writes : - " We have laid him side by side with Canning , at the feet of Pitt , and within two ...
... feet . His funeral took place on the 3rd of August , in Westminster Abbey . On that day , his friend's son , Thomas Babington Macaulay , writes : - " We have laid him side by side with Canning , at the feet of Pitt , and within two ...
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... feet wide in the broadest part , with a transept upwards of 400 feet long and 72 feet wide intersecting the building at right angles in the middle . The side walls rose in three stages : the outer wall rising from the ground twenty ...
... feet wide in the broadest part , with a transept upwards of 400 feet long and 72 feet wide intersecting the building at right angles in the middle . The side walls rose in three stages : the outer wall rising from the ground twenty ...
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