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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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oly cross in the chapel of the Virginat Greenwich in 1300. There stood, in1433, a palace, romantically known asthe Manor of Plaisaunce. This wasowned by Humphrey, Duke of Glouces-ter, and at his death, the manor and thepalace reverted to the Crown. HenryVIII., who was born at Greenwich, wasvery fond of the old town, and spentlarge sums of money in the erection,savs an ancient chronicler, of sumptuoushouses. ■• Greenwich, says Lambarde,■• was, when Henry VIII. came to thethrone, a pleasant, perfect, and princelypalace. There the king married hisfirst wife, Katharine of Aragon ; there heastonished all England by introducingat the feast of Christmas, in 1511, amasked dance after the maner ofItalic; and there, in 1533, the PrincessElizabeth was born. Greenwich Hos-pital, which covers a wider area than anyroyal palace of England except Windsor,is. to my thinking, one of the finestbuildings on the Thames. There isnothing in central London, not even EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 535 FO f
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536 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. Somersel House, whicli can be compared Sir John Rennie remodelled, with won-with ii. (ts lofty cupolas and its hand- derful skill, all these docks and work-some colonnades rival in beauty the finesl shops, created a vast steam-reverse of tlu ntinental palaces: and the basin, mast-slips, and river-walls, and •■ painted hall is oue of the most unique Woolwich was soon as well equipped for museums in Europe. From the observ- building first-class iron steamers as it atory there is a pretty view of the river had been tor sending forth the old and the perpetual procession of ships, wooden first-rates. lint itwasfound It is said that, this observatory stands insufficient for the building of new ar - upon the site of a. tower which, in Eliza- clad ships: their enormous tonnage could beths time, was called Miretleur. and not he launched forth on so shallow and is supposed to he the Tower of Mira- crowded a river; and so. in course of tlores. referred to in the

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