Identifier: travelsineuropea00bolt (find matches)
Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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During all of Great Britains late wonderful pros-perity Queen Victoria has constantly affirmed thatcommerce and trade alone will not make a nationgreat and happy ; that England has become happybecause of a knowledge of the true God, and ofJesus Christ. The late Cardinal Manning at thetime of the Queens Jubilee paid her a deservingcompliment in saying, that Queen Victorias homeand her court are bright and spotless examples forall who reign, and a pattern for all people. Senator George F. Hoar graciously said, QueenVictoria is a type of gentlest womanhood, model ofmother, wife and friend, who came at eighteen tothe throne of George IV. and William ; the Royalnature that disdained to strike at her kingdomsrival in the hour of our sorest need ; the heart,which even in the bosom of a Queen beat withsympathy for the cause of constitutional liberty ;who laid on the coffin of our dead Garfield thewreath fragrant with a sisters sympathy ; to herour Republican manhood does not disdain to bend.
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TRAVELS, 147 The eagle, lord of land and sea,Will stoop to pay her fealty. It is less than nine miles from Liverpool to theEnglish Lake District. Windermere Village is amile or two back from the Lake and on elevatedground. Peeping out of the woods on every handare pretty cottages and mansions. Orrest Headcommands an extended view of Windermere Lake,with its wooded islands, pretty bays, and undulat-ing hills. Li the distance are seen many villagesand wild peaks. Few spots in England have richerand more varied scenery. From Bowness, a lakeport near by, steam yachts and pleasure boats takeyou down the lake to Newby Bridge. Its SwanInn was praised by Hawthorne. Tourists walknine miles, or sail to Ambleside, another favoritecenter of excursionists. One finds in the EnglishLake District a labyrinth of delightful trips. Writ-ers pay pilgrimages to Dr. Arnolds lovely cottage,and to Rydal Mount, the home of Wordsworth.Along the roadside are the daisies he liked somuch. The poet, his sister and

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