2013, ISBN: 1230455744

[EAN: 9781230455747], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781230455747], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER IY. ALPINE CHARACTERS THE ANTIQUARIAN IN TYROL. No doubt many of the facts mentioned in the preceding chapters, especially those in connection with the religious life in Tyrol, must sound strange to English ears, and very likely many of our readers will ask how it is that we have penetrated into the mysteries of the clerical, no less than of the scholastic cloth, in the way we have done. We divulge the secret of our success in this quarter with evil forebodings, for, kind reader, we confess to belong to those unintelligible beings whose soul is tainted by a love, not for the modern, but for the old and bygone. We are in fact amateur antiquarians. Curiosity hunters, if you will have it! How many quires could we fill with accounts of strange adventures and ludicrous incidents, which have befallen us while in pursuit of that all-engrossing sport among the mountains of Tyrol. A glance round the room in which we are writing, a view of our table, one look at the walls, carries us back to the modest little chalet, the ruined old castle, the crazy old mansion, the quaint old inn, to the tumbledown medieval church--one and all the scene of some happy discovery, or some spirited barter. We are surrounded by trophies cf our chase. The table we are writing on is a worm-eaten structure of unwieldy shape, adorned with renaissance carving, and provided with numberless drawers and strange out-of-the-way secret springs. The chair we occupy is of comfortable, but highly antiquated build, its dingy leather cover, studded at the sides with massive embossed nails, had once formed parb of the primitive furniture in one of the favourite castle shooting-boxes of that enthusiastic royal sportsman of the late middle ages, Emperor Maximilian I. The very.<

2013, ISBN: 1230455744

[EAN: 9781230455747], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781230455747], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER IY. ALPINE CHARACTERS THE ANTIQUARIAN IN TYROL. No doubt many of the facts mentioned in the preceding chapters, especially those in connection with the religious life in Tyrol, must sound strange to English ears, and very likely many of our readers will ask how it is that we have penetrated into the mysteries of the clerical, no less than of the scholastic cloth, in the way we have done. We divulge the secret of our success in this quarter with evil forebodings, for, kind reader, we confess to belong to those unintelligible beings whose soul is tainted by a love, not for the modern, but for the old and bygone. We are in fact amateur antiquarians. Curiosity hunters, if you will have it! How many quires could we fill with accounts of strange adventures and ludicrous incidents, which have befallen us while in pursuit of that all-engrossing sport among the mountains of Tyrol. A glance round the room in which we are writing, a view of our table, one look at the walls, carries us back to the modest little chalet, the ruined old castle, the crazy old mansion, the quaint old inn, to the tumbledown medieval church--one and all the scene of some happy discovery, or some spirited barter. We are surrounded by trophies cf our chase. The table we are writing on is a worm-eaten structure of unwieldy shape, adorned with renaissance carving, and provided with numberless drawers and strange out-of-the-way secret springs. The chair we occupy is of comfortable, but highly antiquated build, its dingy leather cover, studded at the sides with massive embossed nails, had once formed parb of the primitive furniture in one of the favourite castle shooting-boxes of that enthusiastic royal sportsman of the late middle ages, Emperor Maximilian I. The very.<

ISBN: 9781230455747

Paperback, [PU: Theclassics.Us], This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Theclassics.Us], This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IY. ALPINE CHARACTERS THE ANTIQUARIAN IN TYROL. No doubt many of the facts mentioned in the preceding chapters, especially those in connection with the religious life in Tyrol, must sound strange to English ears, and very likely many of our readers will ask how it is that we have penetrated into the mysteries of the clerical, no less than of the scholastic cloth, in the way we have done. We divulge the secret of our success in this quarter with evil forebodings, for, kind reader, we confess to belong to those unintelligible beings whose soul is tainted by a love, not for the modern, but for the old and bygone. We are in fact amateur antiquarians. Curiosity hunters, if you will have it! How many quires could we fill with accounts of strange adventures and ludicrous incidents, which have befallen us while in pursuit of that all-engrossing sport among the mountains of Tyrol. A glance round the room in which we are writing, a view of our table, one look at the walls, carries us back to the modest little chalet, the ruined old castle, the crazy old mansion, the quaint old inn, to the tumbledown medieval church--one and all the scene of some happy discovery, or some spirited barter. We are surrounded by trophies cf our chase. The table we are writing on is a worm-eaten structure of unwieldy shape, adorned with renaissance carving, and provided with numberless drawers and strange out-of-the-way secret springs. The chair we occupy is of comfortable, but highly antiquated build, its dingy leather cover, studded at the sides with massive embossed nails, had once formed parb of the primitive furniture in one of the favourite castle shooting-boxes of that enthusiastic royal sportsman of the late middle ages, Emperor Maximilian I. The very..., Fiction<