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Paris in old and present times (1885)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 22

An illustration from Paris in old and present times, 1885, leaf 22
heartily de-spised by intelligent Englishmen as they can possiblybe by foreigners, but the foreigner shows his own patri-otic bias by dwelling upon them, and by slighting allu- 1 I am inclined to think that the Frenchmans notions of size hadbeen upset by passing through Westminster Hall; but the… … TRANSEPT OF NOTRE DAME. Introduction. 5 sions to what is really good and noble in London, — forexample, when he passes by St. Pauls as a feeble imita-tion of St. Peters at Rome, or speaks of the Law Courtsas a medley of Gothic details, without doing justice tothe originality of either Wren or…

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