 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 474 Seiten
...to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." * Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 508 Seiten
...to support my chaise from Let me persuade all travellers to c 4 overturning. 24 A TREATISE ON ROADS. avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or buiy them in muddy sand. " It is only bad management that can occasion such very miserable roads, in... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 Seiten
...to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures."* Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.' " — pp. 32 — 34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress,, a fact more... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 560 Seiten
...to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...precise ground over which Mr. Young travelled in this manner less than eighty years ago is at present literally reticulated with railways, upon which tens... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 460 Seiten
...obliged to hire two men atone place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Young traveled in this manner less than eighty years ago, is at present literally reticulated with railways,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 588 Seiten
...chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which most either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...precise ground over which Mr. Young travelled in this manner less than eighty years ago is at present literally reticulated with railways, upon which tens... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." CHAP, n.] THE PBOGRESS OF TRANSPORT. 35 Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Yonng... | |
 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which mu¿t cither dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.'" — pp. 32—34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress, a fact more striking... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." When, however, business between town and country augmented, and a quick transit was rendered necessary,... | |
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A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or... 
