Captain Musafir's Rambles in Alpine LandsW.H. Allen, 1884 - 150 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 21
Página xii
... less admirable , rise up to give mental evidence in support of this assertion . After a stay at Veldes of more than a fortnight spent in climbing , rambling , and fishing , we proceeded to the scarcely less beautiful Wurzener Thal , the ...
... less admirable , rise up to give mental evidence in support of this assertion . After a stay at Veldes of more than a fortnight spent in climbing , rambling , and fishing , we proceeded to the scarcely less beautiful Wurzener Thal , the ...
Página xiv
... less visited and less known , though not less charming , than those mentioned in these pages . But they would want , I fear , the freshness , the sense of delightful novelty , the feeling of anticipations more than realised , which ...
... less visited and less known , though not less charming , than those mentioned in these pages . But they would want , I fear , the freshness , the sense of delightful novelty , the feeling of anticipations more than realised , which ...
Página 5
... less longing for social precedence than existed before the Mutiny . England is no longer regarded as a dependency of India , to provide it with beer and cheroots , but it is looked upon as the land of promise - the country a return to ...
... less longing for social precedence than existed before the Mutiny . England is no longer regarded as a dependency of India , to provide it with beer and cheroots , but it is looked upon as the land of promise - the country a return to ...
Página 9
... , but from the state of completion of the railways , it could not have been more than five or six years ago , possibly less . عالی girls carrying with them the loveliest flowers , which , 2 RAMBLES IN ALPINE LANDS . 9.
... , but from the state of completion of the railways , it could not have been more than five or six years ago , possibly less . عالی girls carrying with them the loveliest flowers , which , 2 RAMBLES IN ALPINE LANDS . 9.
Página 20
... less struck with the city than they expected , but to have been remarkably impressed with the light , gay , and jovial character of the people , and with the extreme politeness of the officials . It happened to fall to the lot of ...
... less struck with the city than they expected , but to have been remarkably impressed with the light , gay , and jovial character of the people , and with the extreme politeness of the officials . It happened to fall to the lot of ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Captain Musafir's: Rambles in Alpine Lands (Classic Reprint) G. B. Malleson Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Almhütte Anglo-Indians appeared Archduke arrived ascent Aussee Austria Bavarian beautiful Berchtesgaden Blochmann boat Bormio bright C.S.I. London Captain Musafir's carriage castle chamois charming climb Colonel G. B. MALLESON comfortable Dachstein Danube descending distance Ebensee einspänner Emperor Engelberg English Engstlen Alp enjoy enjoyment Europe excursions famous feet fishing foreground friends German glacier glorious Gmunden Gosau Gratz green Grundl lake Hallein Hallstadt height hills hour India Innsbruck Ischl Jäger Jäkel journey Kanzler König's Krähmeyer ladies lake of Grundl Lambach landlord Langbath language Linz little village lovely Lucerne magnificent miles mountains Musafir o'clock Obertraun once party Passau picturesque Pontresina pretty rain reached river road rock route Salzburg Salzkammergut scarcely scenery side sight smiling snow splendid steamer Styrian summit Switzerland Thalgau thence Titlis tour town Traun Traunkirchen Traunstein travellers Trieste Untersberg valley W. H. Allen walk Watzmann whilst wife Wild Hunter
Pasajes populares
Página 137 - Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas. Including an Account of the Capture of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and Sketches of the most eminent Foreign Adventurers in India up to the period of that Capture. With an Appendix containing an Account of the Expedition from India to Egypt in 1801. By Colonel GB MALLESON, CSI Crown 8vo.
Página 137 - History of the French in India, from the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to its Capture in 17G1.
Página 137 - Colonel Malleson has produced a volume alike attractive to the general reader and valuable for its new matter to the special student. It is not too much to say that now, for the first time, we are furnished with a faithful narrative of that portion of European enterprise in India which turns upon the contest waged by the East India Company against French influence, and especially against Dupleix.
Página 137 - How India escaped from the government of prefects and sub-prefects to fall under that of Commissioners and Deputy-Commissioners ; why the Penal Code of Lord Macaulay reigns supreme instead of a Code Napoleon ; why we are not looking on helplessly from Mahe, Karikal, and Pondicherry, while the French are ruling all over Madras, and spending millions of francs in attempting to cultivate the slopes of the Neilgherries, may be learnt from this modest volume.
Página 137 - Pondicherry, while the French are ruling all over Madras, and spending millions of francs in attempting to cultivate the slopes of the Neilgherries, may be learnt from this modest volume. Colonel Malleson is always painstaking, and generally accurate ; his style is transparent, and he never loses sight of the purpose with which he commenced to write.
Página 138 - We have never read a volume in which this merit is more conspicuously displayed : and a history which, in unskilful hands, might have become confused to the last degree, is made remarkably clear and intelligible.
Página 101 - Havard went over to one of the windows and tried to open it, but it was nailed shut.