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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806Carr, John, Sir

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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806

Name: A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806
Author: Carr, John, Sir

Carr, John, Sir

Netherlands -- Description and travel; Rhine River Valley -- Description and travel

I am indebted for some interesting anecdotes of the most eminent
Painters of the Dutch and Flemish School to the authors of the Abrégé de
la Vie des Peintres, to Pilkington’s Dictionary of Painters, and to the
elegant and witty D’Israeli.

I had no companion with me during the greater part of the Tour described
in the following pages, which was taken amidst many untoward and
embarrassing circumstances, the melancholy effects of war, and which,
for that reason, will, I hope, be favoured with the indulgent candour of
my friends and of the Public.




                               CONTENTS.


                               CHAPTER I.
 A Confession: the war: an adoption: confidence in fortune sometimes
   necessary: hateful character of a spy: a motive for travelling: a
   moral: anecdote of a royal description: miseries of a Dutch
   galliot: Calvin and Servetus: religion and a rope’s end: Dutch
   anecdote of fortitude: anecdote of a Newfoundland dog: appearance
   of Holland from the sea: its coast: a dilemma: the Maas river:
   anecdote of Napoleon: of a Dutch woman: a disaster: Rotterdam
   described: leaning houses                                           1

                               CHAPTER II.
 The boompies: Bayle: prerogatives of genius: Spanish inscriptions:
   a Dutch dinner: Dutch beggars: a good bargain: anecdotes of some
   members of the Batavian executive body: anecdotes of the passion
   of the Dutch for traffic: anecdote of Lord Nelson and the Dey of
   Tunis: hereditary dresses: the Exchange of Rotterdam; anecdotes
   of the English there: several anecdotes of the King and Queen of
   Holland: public opinion of them: duty of a Tourist                 13

                              CHAPTER III.
 Commission countenances: physiognomies compared: homage paid to
   genius: Erasmus’s statue: inscription: revolutionary whims:
   learned gallantry: kisses: anecdotes of Erasmus: cathedral of
   Saint Lawrence: the rival organ: charity schools: public
   examinations: effects of education on the public mind: his Grace
   the Duke of Bedford: Mr. Lancaster’s school                        22

                               CHAPTER IV.
 The coins: practice of vails-giving in Holland: fruit and vegetable
   sellers: Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping: whimsical
   sarcasm of a traveller: singular offence offered to a
   chambermaid: Dutch prints of Lord Nelson: treatment of our
   countrymen at Verdun: Dutch compared with the Chinese: private
   collections of paintings: brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs:
   remarks on Dutch and Flemish schools: Dort; anecdotes of
   distinguished persons there: anecdote of Cowper: interposition of
   Providence                                                         30

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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806

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