 | Thames river - 1906 - 490 pàgines
...passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried into effect ; and few of those who now gaze on the noblest of European...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue." The battle of La Hogue was fought on the 24th of May, 1692. It concluded a "great conflict which had... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1907 - 494 pàgines
...passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried into effect ; and few of those who now gaze on the noblest of European...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue." For over a century and a half the Greenwich Pensioner, "that strange composition of battered humanity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 600 pàgines
...passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried into effect ; and few of those who now gaze on the noblest of European...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue. v 1, • r UK N.-r1ot V. •. ••VlT reads the inscription which runs p • .: ••' -.-tve that... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry, Sir Alfred Edward Codrington - 1918 - 200 pàgines
...passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried into effect ; and few of those who now gaze on the noblest of European...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue." l On 25th October 1694 letters patent were issued to erect and found a hospital " for the relief and... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1923 - 470 pàgines
...the plan was never carried into effect ; and few of those who now 426 THE GLORIES OF GREENWICH CHAP; gaze on the noblest of European hospitals are aware...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue. " For over a century and a half the Greenwich Pensioner, " that strange composition of battered humanity... | |
 | Joshua Girling Sir Fitch - 2016 - 472 pàgines
...It occupies a lordly site on the Thames. Macaulay designated it "the noblest of European hospitals, a memorial of the virtues of the good Queen Mary,...of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue." Until recently this great palatial institution sheltered 1,600 old seamen, who were maintained at a... | |
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... of the institution would have had a conspicuous place in that court which presents two lofty domes and two graceful colonnades to the multitudes who are perpetually passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried... 
