 | 802 páginas
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 508 páginas
...some of the roads in the north of England : — " To JVigan. Turnpike 1 know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country INTRODUCTION. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or... | |
 | Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - 1836 - 514 páginas
...»on gnglanb in feiner „Six months Tour" 1770. „To Wigan." „I linow not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive, to describe...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... | |
 | 1838 - 492 páginas
...Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers...propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1838 - 578 páginas
...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...Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 páginas
...the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe...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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 páginas
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 páginas
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | 1858 - 438 páginas
...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 - 614 páginas
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with... | |
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They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer... 
