| Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 Seiten
...following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike 1 know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand... | |
| Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - 1836 - 514 Seiten
...ber SSSege im 9îorben »on gnglanb in feiner „Six months Tour" 1770. „To Wigan." „I linow not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...this terrible country , to avoid it, as they would avoid the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necio or their limbs, by overthrow! or breakings... | |
| Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 Seiten
...following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible... | |
| Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 542 Seiten
...following account of some of the roads in the "north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acciM'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 Seiten
...between Preston and Wigan, a spot which is now become a centre for railway operations. " I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
| 1838 - 492 Seiten
...following account of some of the roads in the north of England: — "To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible... | |
| 1858 - 438 Seiten
...of it : — ' I know \pt in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive tfc^describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution...travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks... | |
| James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 616 Seiten
...Young, in his "Tour in the North of England," published in 1770.* * " I know not," writes Mr. Young, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
| 1850 - 602 Seiten
...his tour the following account of the state of the roads at that time : — ' I know not,' he Bays, ' in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently...this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the... | |
| 1845 - 916 Seiten
...formerly called, as being the exclusive abode of gentry) is frightful enough. " I know not," says he, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
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