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Old Humphrey. THE TOWER OF LONDON . THOUGH I have tramped three or four miles without halting - a tolerable breathing bout for an old man - yet do I feel as fresh as when I first started . Surely if any human being beneath the stars has ...
Old Humphrey. THE TOWER OF LONDON . THOUGH I have tramped three or four miles without halting - a tolerable breathing bout for an old man - yet do I feel as fresh as when I first started . Surely if any human being beneath the stars has ...
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... Four gates have I passed , and the warders and armed sentinels have let me proceed without a challenge ; but in olden times the draw- bridge to the Tower was always raised , and the huge , unwieldy gates were always closed . Traitor's ...
... Four gates have I passed , and the warders and armed sentinels have let me proceed without a challenge ; but in olden times the draw- bridge to the Tower was always raised , and the huge , unwieldy gates were always closed . Traitor's ...
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... four gunners . 66 a gen- Successive reductions have taken place in the price of admittance , but the number of persons visiting the tower now , is so much greater than formerly , that much more money is received from the present ...
... four gunners . 66 a gen- Successive reductions have taken place in the price of admittance , but the number of persons visiting the tower now , is so much greater than formerly , that much more money is received from the present ...
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... four evangelists at the sides , are well worthy attention . I remember to have heard an anecdote about the motto " Resurgam " on the south front . It is said , that when sir Christopher Wren was unde- cided about the motto he should ...
... four evangelists at the sides , are well worthy attention . I remember to have heard an anecdote about the motto " Resurgam " on the south front . It is said , that when sir Christopher Wren was unde- cided about the motto he should ...
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... four noble stone buildings , united by stone gateways at the angles , is St. Bartholomew's Hospital . It is devoted to the use of the sick nearly four thousand in - patients , and a yet greater number of out - patients , have been cured ...
... four noble stone buildings , united by stone gateways at the angles , is St. Bartholomew's Hospital . It is devoted to the use of the sick nearly four thousand in - patients , and a yet greater number of out - patients , have been cured ...
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