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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1847 Excerpt: ... A PLEA FOR RAGGED SCHOOLS, &c. 0 approaching Edinburgh from the west, after the general features which distance presents, --dome, and spire, and antique piles of building, the Castle standing in the foreground, while Arthur Seat raises its lion-like back between the city and the sea, --the first object which attracts the eyes of a stranger is a structure of exquisite and surpassing beauty. It might be a palace for our Queen: --it is an hospital. Near by, embowered in wood, stands an edifice of less pretensions, but also great extent: --it is another hospital. Within a bow-shot of that, again, some fine open towers rise from the wood over a fair structure, with its Grecian pillars and graceful portico: --it is another hespital. Now in the city, and wheeling round nigh to the base of the Castle rock, he drives on by Lauriston. Not far away, on the outskirts of the town, pleasantly planted in a beautiful park bordered with trees, stands an old-fashioned building: --it is another hospital. In his way along Lauriston, within a stone-cast of him, his eye catches the back of a large and spacious edifice, which looks beautifully out on tho Meadows, the low Braid Hills, and the distant Pentlands: --it is another hospital. A few turns of the wheel, and before him, within a fine park, or rather ornamental garden, stands the finest structure of our town, --a masterpiece of Inigo Jones, --with a princely revenue of i?lo,000 a-year: --it is another hospital. Tho carriage now jostles over a stone; the stranger turns his head, and sees, but some hundred yards away, a large Dutch-like structure, stretching out its long lines of windows, with the gilded ship, the sign of commerce, for weather-vane, on its summit: --that is another hospital. Our friend concludes, and not without som


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235807305
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235807304
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr

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