 | 1823 - 564 pagina’s
...are in very bad taste. At every resting-place, some ' kind of conceit is provided for surprising the visitant : If he sit ' down, it is ten to one but...is provided with several ' gnomons, calculated to show the corresponding hour at the chief « capital cities of Europe; and also with a lens, so placed,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 pagina’s
...are in very bad taste. At every resting-place, some kind of conceit is provided for surprising the visitant : if he sit down, it is ten to one but the:...dial is provided with several gnomons, calculated to show tile corresponding hour at the chief capital cities of Europe ; and also with a lens so placed,... | |
 | 1857 - 376 pagina’s
...tricks. " At every resting place," we are told, " some kind of conceit is provided for surprising the visitant. If he sit down, it is ten to one but the...and he does not find it easy to escape a wetting." We must admire these practical jokes more for their ingenuity than for the pleasure which they give.... | |
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... is shaped into an oblong parterre, resembling a basket of flowers, and containing showy geraniums in pots, and gaudy flowers of a more hardy kind planted in the earth. Some things are in very bad taste. At every resting-place, some kind of conceit... 