 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 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...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. * ' Six Weeks' Tour in the Southern Counties of England and Wales,' pp. 153-5. The... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 Seiten
...following account of the state of the roads at that time : ' I know not in the whole range of language i terms sufficiently expressive to describe this •...break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 418 Seiten
...in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let mo most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. * 'Six Weeks' Tour in the Southern Counties of England and Wales,' pp. 153-5. The roads... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 Seiten
...Kings, i. 61.) After the withdrawal of the Itoman legions, the existing roads seem to have been suffered would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four to fall into decay, while... | |
 | George Dodd - 1867 - 372 Seiten
...me 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... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1869 - 128 Seiten
...to be at least decent ; 'but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidently purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand -to * Thin plates of malleable iron, nailed upon the surface of •wooden rails, were partially used as... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 660 Seiten
...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 rats which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What,... | |
 | Harold Esdaile Malet, Nimrod - 1876 - 458 Seiten
...Young, who travelled in Lancashire about the year 1770. 'I know not,' he says, 'in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1876 - 344 Seiten
...not," he says, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this awful road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to LANCASHIRE ROADS. 41 avoid it as they would a pestilence, for a thousand to one they break their necks... | |
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