 | James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 614 páginas
...places, is the tumbling in loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting the carriage in a most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions,...facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." While, however, we allow the present improved roads their... | |
 | 1858 - 438 páginas
...is tumbling in some loose stonVs, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the ni(>V intolerable manner. These ' are not merely opinions,...for I actually passed three ' carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' To the close of the last century, the internal transport... | |
 | 1845 - 916 páginas
...receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting carriages in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely...facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory ! " Parallel trials of human patience are still common in... | |
 | Abraham Hume - 1863 - 514 páginas
...receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in a most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions,...; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." In the Iter Lancastrense, the roads in this part of the... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1863 - 684 páginas
...some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in a most intolerable manner. I actually passed three carts broken down in those eighteen miles of execrable memory.' —A Six Months' Tour through the North of England, iv. 431. Smiles's Lives .</ the Engineers, i. part... | |
 | 1865 - 714 páginas
...receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but " joltiug a carriage in a most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions,...for I actually passed three carts, broken down in these eighteen miles " of execrable memory." t Additional MSS. 9401, fol. 83 and 153. a hill which... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 páginas
...over a steep of 130 feet ; the driver and passengers escaping unhurt. Trecastle, in Breconshire, South They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured,...of the heir to the throne. On the 2nd of September, 1789, the Prince of Wales left Wentworth Hall, where he had been on a visit to Earl Fitzwilliam, and... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 páginas
...a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 páginas
...a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
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The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts, broken down, in those eighteen... 
