 | 1846 - 706 Seiten
...wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' ' To the close of the last century, the internal transport of goods by waggon, was not only intolerably... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 Seiten
...wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Warringion. Turnpike This is a paved road, most infamously bad ; any person would imagine the people... | |
 | 1838 - 492 Seiten
...wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 Seiten
...wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Warrington. Turnpike. — This is a paved road, most infamously bad ; any person would imagine the... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 Seiten
...mending it receives in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....actually passed three carts broken down, in these 18 miles of execrable memory." The benefits which have resulted from the improvement of roads in this... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 614 Seiten
...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,...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." While, however, we allow the present improved roads their proper influence, we must maintain, that... | |
 | 1858 - 438 Seiten
...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,...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' To the close of the last century, the internal transport of goods by waggon, was not only intolerablji... | |
 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' " He says of a road near Wam'ngton, ' This is a paved road, most infamously bad. Any person would imagine... | |
 | 1845 - 916 Seiten
...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...broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory ! " Parallel trials of human patience are still common in the less reclaimed districts of the world.... | |
 | 1873 - 744 Seiten
...wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after winter ! The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in a most intolerable manner : I passed three carts broken down in eighteen miles." Speaking of another,... | |
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... limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in... 
