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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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or in their own conceit; and in additionto works of the sculptors art, great in design and sober in taste, how frequentlyare we not offended by ridiculous allegories and boastful inscriptions ! Amongstthe most remarkable monuments are the sarcophagus of Henry YII. and his wife,and the seated statue of Lord Mansfield ; but who could pass without notice themonuments or tombstones of Edward the Confessor, Edward III., Jane Seymour,Mary Stuart, or Queen Elizabeth, or those of statesmen such as Monk, Canning,* Hepworth Dixon, The Tower of London. 184 THE BRITISH ISLES. Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Warren Hastings, and Robert Peel, whose influences upon thedestinies of the nation have been so pronounced? Newton, Herschel, Watt,Humphry Davy, Telford, and Young are buried at Westminster. Here, too, areinterred, or commemorated by monuments, mostly in the Poets Corner, Chaucer,Ben Jonson, Camden, Milton, Butler, Gray, Spenser, Addison, Dryden, Congreve, Fig. 96.—Westminster Abbey: Henry VII.s Chapel.
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Thomson, Casaubon, Goldsmith, Southey, Macaulay, Dickens, Thackeray, PaoH,Wilberforce, Handel, Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, and Garrick. Lastly, amongst thosewho have made the earth their study, are Stamford Raffles, Rennel, Chardin,Lyell, and Livingstone. Westminster Abbey has survived, notwithstanding the Reformation. It still is

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