 | John Bigland - Geography - 1811 - 586 pages
...last retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds covered with lofty trees. From the...temperature of the climate, it was esteemed the most salubrious and delightful situation in Spain. His apartments consisted of six rooms, four of them with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...of his retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees. From*...the climate, it was esteemed the most healthful and dilicious situation in Spam. Some months before his resignation, he had sent an architect thither,... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 648 pages
...his own retreat. It was seated iu a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees : from...an architect thither to add a new apartment to the • Strada de Bello Be!g. lib. i, 9. monastery, for his accommodation ; but he gave strict orders that... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...£stremadura. It was seated in .a vale of no great M 2 L extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees. From...soil, as well as the temperature of the climate, it is esteemed the most healthful and delicious spot in Spain. Here he buried in solitude and silence,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...the sod, as well as the temperature of the elimate, it was esteemed Ik most healthful and delieious situation in Spain. Some months before his resignation, he had sent an arehiteet thither, to add a new apartment to the monastery, for his aecommodation; but he gave striet... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...his retreat.V,It was seated iu a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded .by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees. From...esteemed the most healthful and delicious situation iu Spain-X Some months before his resignation, he had sent an architect thither, to add a new apartment... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...of Estremadura. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees. From the nature of the soil, as well asthe temperature of the climate, k was esteemed the most healthful and delicious situation in Spain.... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1819 - 410 pages
...lofty trces; and from the nature of the soil, as well as the temptation of the climate, was estcemed the most healthful and delicious situation in Spain....thither to add a new apartment to the monastery for his aecommodation ; but he gave strict orders that the style of the building should be such as suited his... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 342 pages
...last retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds covered with lofty trees. From the...temperature of the climate, it was esteemed the most salubrious and delightful situation in Spain. His apartments consisted of six rooms, four of them with... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 328 pages
...last retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds covered with lofty trees. From the...temperature of the climate, it was esteemed the most salubrious and delightful situation in Spain. His apartments consisted of six rooms, four of them with... | |
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Some months before his resignation he had sent an architect thither to add a new apartment to the monastery, for his accommodation ; but he gave strict orders that the style of the building should be such as suited pis present station, rather than his... 
