Visits to Remarkable Places
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ISBN13: 9780217629928
Paperback|9780217629928
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RF.CTORY OF BOOOETON-LE-an: iNQ. VISIT TO HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING; THE ABODE AND BURIAL-PLACE OF BARNARD GILPIN, THE APOSTLE OP THE XORTH. Around the old city of Durham lie many places of historical interest, and the pleasantness of the country makes a walk or a drive to them doubly agreeable. The picturesque ruins of Finchall Abbey; the sweet retirement of Beaurepaire, which, out of the ordinary track as it now seems to stand, has been visited by many a rough party and fiery salutation; Brancepeth, the once noble castle of the Nevilles, and restored by its present owner to more than its ancient strength and splendour; Aukland, the stately palace of the palatine bishops; the hospitals of Sherburne; the Roman citadel of Lanchester, celebrated for the relics which it has yielded of its ancientmasters; Lumley and Lambton Castles, with all their present and past associations, with all their woods and legends; and Houghton, the tomb of Barnard Gilpin. These, and many other famous spots, powerfully draw us towards them; but at the present moment we are decided to take the last-mentioned one first. The fame of Barnard Gilpin had from my earliest youth been in my mind one of the most golden and sunshiny fabrics, that are built of wonder, love, and veneration, in the heart of childhood, by reading or by story, of what is great, and picturesque, and beautiful. The idea which lived in my imagination of him, firm and glowing as the imagination itself, was of a tall and venerable old man, wandering over vast heaths and moorlands with his Bible in his hand, ready to confront the marauder in his way, and awe him with a word of heaven's truth; to sit down by the swift stream of his Northern valleys, and talk in language of peace and affection, and divine hope, with the solitary fisherman, .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217629928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021762992X |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $24.11 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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