The Cape of Good Hope: Being the Official Handbook of the City of CapetownCorporation of the city of Capetown, 1909 - 220 pages |
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The Cape of Good Hope, Being the Official Handbook of the City of Capetown Cape Town (South Africa),J R Finch No preview available - 2021 |
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Page 88 - My dear Watermeyer, - For thirty years one of the chief delights of my life has been to collect a Library, which I hoped would form the charm and recreation of my middle life and of my old age...
Page 70 - There, till the vision he foresaw Splendid and whole arise, And unimagined Empires draw To council 'neath his skies, The immense and brooding Spirit still Shall quicken and control. Living he was the land, and dead, His soul shall be her soul!
Page 6 - 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 213 - Double fare shall be paid for every fare after twelve o'clock at night and before six o'clock in the morning. In cases of dispute, or upon demand, the driver of a carriage must produce a Hook of Fares, Distances and Regulations.
Page 71 - 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 100 - But the white surge comes bounding to the shore, And the cliff answers to its angry roar. For, where the Cape of Storms heaves high its steep, The clear South-Easter foams along the deep — Whirls the wild spray in gusts of driving snow, And sweeps with its salt shower the reeling prow ; While round each winding bay and jutting rock The glassy swell rolls with its thunder shock — Or, deepening, vast and sullen, heaves away To the lone isles beneath descending day.
Page 152 - ... field ; and for the crest, on a wreath of the colours, upon the battlements of a tower proper, a trident in bend dexter or, surmounted by an anchor and cable in bend sinister sable. go no further. But in the case of the supporters granted to Cape Town (Fig. 673), the official blazon runs as follows : " On the dexter side, standing on a rock, a female figure proper, vested argent, mantle and sandals azure, on her head an estoile radiated or, and supporting with her exterior hand an anchor also...
Page 156 - Watch an old building with an anxious care; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown; set watches about it as if at the gates of a besieged city; bind it together with iron where it loosens; stay it with timber where it declines; do not care about the unsightliness of the aid: better a crutch than...
Page 88 - I may yet, perhaps, be permitted to visit in old age. I believe South Africa will be a great country, that Cape Town, or its vicinity, will, for many reasons, be the point of chief education for its young men. There can, therefore, be no more fitting or worthy resting place for treasures, which I have accumulated with so much care.
Page 151 - Grace's Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these presents grant and assign unto the said...