The illustrated hand-book [&c.].1851 |
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abbey acres aisle ancient antiquity appearance Archbishop arches beach Beachborough Boulogne building built buried called Canterbury Castle hill celebrated chalk chancel chapel Cheriton Cherry Garden Church cliff coast dedicated to St ditto Dover Castle Eadbald Eanswith Earl East Wear Bay entrance erected farm house feet Folkestone Folkestone and Sandgate Foord formerly green sand half handsome Harbour Hasted Hawkinge Hedges HIGH STREET Hythe John Kent Kentish King of Kent London Lord lower green sand Lydden Lydden Spout Lympne manor mansion Martello Towers mayor miles from Folkestone monument north side original parish Park pass picturesque pond Ports present Radnor Railway reign of King remains residence ruins Saltwood Saltwood Castle Sandgate Castle short distance Sir William Brockman situated station stone SWINGFIELD MINNIS town Tunnel Viaduct village visitors walls west end Westenhanger whilst William William Deedes Wingate hill Wood yards
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Σελίδα 144 - Daniels' cylinders, and two common batteries of 20 plates each. To these batteries were attached wires, which communicated at the end of the charge by means of a very fine wire of platina, which the electric fluid, as it passed over it, made red-hot, to fire the powder.
Σελίδα 144 - ... to fire the powder. The wires, covered with ropes, were spread upon the grass to the top of the cliff, and then falling over it were carried to the eastern, the centre, and the western chamber.
Σελίδα 3 - Its streets, lanes, and alleys — fanciful distinctions without much real difference, — are agreeable enough to persons who do not mind running up and down stairs; and the only inconvenience at all felt by such of its inhabitants as are not asthmatic, is when some heedless urchin tumbles down a chimney, or an impertinent pedestrian peeps into a garret window. At the eastern extremity of the town, on the sea-beach, and scarcely above high-water mark, stood, in the good old times, a row of houses...
Σελίδα 24 - A house she hath ; it's made of such good fashion, The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation ; Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent, Or turn her out of doors for nonpayment. From chimney money too this cell is free. To such a house who would not tenant be?
Σελίδα 2 - Not many miles removed from the verge of this recondite region, stands a collection of houses, which its maligners call a fishing-town and its well-wishers a Watering-place. A limb of one of the Cinque Ports, it has (or lately had) a corporation of its own, and has been thought considerable enough to give a second title to a noble family. Rome stood on seven hills ; Folkestone seems to have been built upon seventy. Its streets, lanes, and alleys, — fanciful distinctions without much real difference,...