... noble architecture of the middle ages; whose banks present every variety of wild and picturesque rocks, thick forests, fertile plains; vineyards, sometimes gently sloping, sometimes perched among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among... The miniature guide to the Rhine - Page 153by Francis Coghlan - 1853Full view - About this book
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 628 pages
...crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are orKnmcnted with populous cities, flourishing towns and villages,...ruins, with which a thousand legends are connected, beautiful and romantic roads, and salutary mineral springs ; a river whoso waters offer choice fish,... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 616 pages
...cities, flourishing towns and villages, castles and ruins, with which a thousand legends are connected, beautiful and romantic roads, and salutary mineral springs; a river whose waters offer choice tish, as its banks offer the choicest wines; which, in its course of 900 miles, affords 630 miles of... | |
| Francis Lieber - History - 1834 - 390 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...offer the choicest wines; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
| Francis Lieber - United States - 1835 - 324 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...offer the choicest wines ; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
| Francis Lieber - United States - 1835 - 636 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...offer the choicest wines; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
| Francis Lieber - Germans - 1835 - 360 pages
...fortresses of nature; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns and villages, i castles and ruins, with which a thousand legends are...offer the choicest wines; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...ruins, with which a thousand legends are connected, beautiful and romantic roads, and salutary mineral springs ; u river whose waters offer choice fish,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Belgium - 1838 - 612 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...offer the choicest wines ; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
| Europe - 1838 - 582 pages
...among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature ; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...offer the choicest wines ; which, in its course of nine hundred miles, affords six hundred and thirty miles of uninterrupted navigation, from Basle to... | |
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