Cape Town: Treasures of the Mother-city of South AfricaSpecialty Press of S.A., 1927 - 179 pages |
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18th century Adderley Street Anreith Avenue beautiful Bishop blue bought British bronze Brueghel building built burghers Cape Town carved Castle Cathedral Cecil Rhodes Chapel collection College colour Company's cottage Council courtyard delightful designed Devil's Peak door Dutch East India Dutch Reformed Church East India Company English entrance face famous flowers front gable Gallery Gardens gate gateway George's Government House Governor GROOT CONSTANTIA Groote Schuur hall Heerengracht Holland hospital Hottentots Hout Bay interesting Kirstenbosch Koopmans-de Wet house land Library lions look Lord Charles Somerset Malay memorial mountain Muizenberg Museum Newlands House oaks Office OLD SUPREME COURT once painted painter Parliament pass picture Riebeeck road roof round seen ships side Sir George Grey slaves South Africa square staircase stands Stel stoep stone Strand Street Table Bay thatched things treasures trees visitor Wale Street walls Welgelegen wood Wynberg
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Page 11 - Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
Page 93 - The beauty and the wonder and the power, The shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades, Changes, surprises, - and God made it all! For what? do you feel thankful, ay or no, For this fair town's face, yonder river's line, The mountain round it and the sky above, Much more the figures of man, woman, child, These are the frame to?
Page 37 - Town market should go to create a fund for the formation of a public library which 'shall be open to the Public and lay the foundation of a System, which shall place the means of knowledge within the reach of the Youth of this remote corner of the Globe, and bring within their reach what the most eloquent of ancient writers has considered to be one of the first blessings of life, "Home Education".
Page 167 - Caaba and pulpit at one end ; over the niche, a crescent painted ; and over the entrance door a crescent, an Arabic inscription, and the royal arms of England ! A fat jolly Mollah looked amazed as I ascended the steps ; but when I touched my forehead and said, ' Salaam Aleikoom ', he laughed and said, ' Salaam, Salaam, come in, come in.
Page 50 - ... the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam. But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night...
Page 8 - Hail! Snatched and bartered oft from hand to hand, I dream my dream, by rock and heath and pine, Of Empire to the northward. Ay, one land From Lion's Head to Line!
Page 50 - They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Page 1 - This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18 of June.
Page 94 - To be passed over, despised? or dwelt upon, Wondered at? Oh, this last of course!— you say. But why not do as well as say,— paint these Just as they are, careless what comes of it?
Page 164 - So I went close and saw the whole ceremony. They took the corpse, wrapped in a sheet, out of the bier, and lifted it into the grave, where two men received it ; then a sheet was held over the grave till they had placed the dead man, and then flowers and earth were thrown in by all present, the grave was filled in, watered out of a brass kettle, and decked with flowers.