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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

CHAPTER V.
 Licensed brothels; remark upon them: Dutch literary meeting
   described: spitting pots: pipes, Dutch extravagant in them;
   smoking; historical anecdote of tobacco: general temperance of
   the Dutch: arbitrary power of police masters: travelling in
   Holland very cheap and very agreeable: canal to Delft: Dutch
   sawing mills: English circular masonry mills: Dutch language:
   specimen of the English, Dutch, and German languages               41

                               CHAPTER VI.
 Dexterity of boatmen: Overchie: Dutch gingerbread: a French saying:
   Delft china: Delft: Dutchman’s remark on the war: new church:
   anecdote of Grotius: affectionate stratagem: Grotius’s remarks on
   education: Barneveldt: noble female anecdote: the carillons;
   carilloneurs: Dutch frugality towards the dead: revolutionary
   moderation: firmness of manufactures                               56

                              CHAPTER VII.
 Spirited remonstrance: anecdote of a regicide: interesting anecdote
   of Frank Hals and Vandyke: a Dutch Bloomfield: delightful passage
   to the Hague: Dutch discussion of Desdemona’s wish: Ryswick:
   approach to the Hague: Dutch review: old and new constitutions
   compared: brief review of the ancient constitution of Holland:
   also of the political history: remarks on the Princes of the
   house of Orange                                                    66

                              CHAPTER VIII.
 Remarks on the last Stadtholder; also on the Princess of Orange;
   her presumption and indiscretion: hatred of the Dutch to the
   House of Orange: Fête at the Hague on the flight of that family.
   Reasons assigned for the progress of the French arms; for the
   glorious triumph of British prowess. Conduct of the new
   government towards some of the servants of the old: the new
   constitution of Holland                                            76

                               CHAPTER IX.
 Grand entry of King and Queen into Holland: opening of the meeting
   of their High Mightinesses: anecdote of royal economy: the Hague
   described: Lady W. Montagu’s remarks rebutted: pretty female
   faces: a Dutch nursery: Dutch mode of increasing animal heat: the
   wood: its sanctity: the palace formerly called the House in the
   Wood: anecdote of King William the Third: unostentatious habits
   of the Orange family: charming jaunt to Scheveling: a marine
   hotel: Mr. Fox                                                     92

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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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