 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 sidor
...surrounds it, from whence, perhaps, is enjoyed the •finest view of the capital. It is certainly superior to that from Montmartre, as the principal objects...indistinctness, or confusion in the view. Every palace, and every temple, and every public edifice stands before you in its own individual majesty, and urges... | |
 | Galignani A. and W. - 1844 - 578 sidor
...and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with... | |
 | A. and W. Galignani and Co - 1853 - 748 sidor
...and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with... | |
 | A. and W. Galignani and Co - 1855 - 690 sidor
...and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with... | |
 | A. and W. Galignani and Co - 1856 - 670 sidor
...and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with... | |
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... Paris, in some measure identified with them ; even the public amusements of the capital tend to the improvement of the mind, and the advance of civilization. The metropolis is naturally salubrious, and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained... 