 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1859 - 460 Seiten
...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 and limbs by overthrows and breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 Seiten
...this shrewd observer says, " Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country, to. avoid it, as they would the devil."§ The love of the picturesque was not sufficient to bear the ordinary tourist through such difficulties.... | |
 | Gilbert James French - 1860 - 342 Seiten
...be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country, 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 532 Seiten
...his rage. Of the road between Proud Preston and Wigan he says : " I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe...thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs 1 ' Six Weeks' Tour in. the Southern Counties of England and Wales,' pp. 153-5. by overthrows or breakings-down.... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1863 - 684 Seiten
...Wales, 88, 89. t Of the road between Preston and Wigan, he writes,—' I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe...overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with nits which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - 1863 - 500 Seiten
...me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidently 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... | |
 | William Lewins - 1864 - 402 Seiten
...conclude it to be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they will break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts... | |
 | William Lewins - 1864 - 390 Seiten
...conclude it to be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they will break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1864 - 802 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 362 Seiten
...Preston to Wigan the road is " infernal." " I would most seriously caution all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they will break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." From Wigan to Warrington the... | |
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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... 
