England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social History of the Times, Volume 2Ward & Downey, 1891 |
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Pagina 4
... called ' riding post ' -that is to say , he hired at each stage for the sum of eightpence two horses , with a post - boy , who carried the portmanteau behind him , and rode back with the horses when fresh ones were required . Pillions ...
... called ' riding post ' -that is to say , he hired at each stage for the sum of eightpence two horses , with a post - boy , who carried the portmanteau behind him , and rode back with the horses when fresh ones were required . Pillions ...
Pagina 11
... Called by a vile prostitution of language a turnpike , but chris- tened , I apprehend , by people who do not know what a road is , it is all of chalk stone , of which everywhere loose ones are rolling about to lame horses . It is full ...
... Called by a vile prostitution of language a turnpike , but chris- tened , I apprehend , by people who do not know what a road is , it is all of chalk stone , of which everywhere loose ones are rolling about to lame horses . It is full ...
Pagina 18
... called , travelled by them , they were expensive . The majority of people either patronised the waggons or , which was more frequently the case , they stopped at home . A journey to or from Newcastle to London was in those days a ...
... called , travelled by them , they were expensive . The majority of people either patronised the waggons or , which was more frequently the case , they stopped at home . A journey to or from Newcastle to London was in those days a ...
Pagina 20
... called ' flying machines . ' These vehicles , which are drawn by six horses , go twenty - eight leagues in a day , from Dover to London , for a single guinea . Servants are entitled to a place for half that money , either behind the ...
... called ' flying machines . ' These vehicles , which are drawn by six horses , go twenty - eight leagues in a day , from Dover to London , for a single guinea . Servants are entitled to a place for half that money , either behind the ...
Pagina 21
... a miserable waggon track , called Ramsbury narrow way . One by one , from little to less , he dawdled away all his passengers , and Gent's Mag . xxii . 552 . when asked why he was such an obstinate idiot , ROADS AND TRAVELLING . ZI.
... a miserable waggon track , called Ramsbury narrow way . One by one , from little to less , he dawdled away all his passengers , and Gent's Mag . xxii . 552 . when asked why he was such an obstinate idiot , ROADS AND TRAVELLING . ZI.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 325 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina 129 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Pagina 98 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Pagina 129 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 261 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Pagina 349 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Pagina 116 - King's bench prison and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet. Even the poorest pitied him ; and they well might pity him. For if their condition was equally abject, their aspirings were not equally high, nor their sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day for the wages of a ditcher, to be hunted by bailiffs from one haunt of beggary and pestilence to another, from Grub Street to St. George's...
Pagina 6 - I saw an ancient lady, and a lady of very good quality, I assure you, drawn to church in her coach with six oxen ; nor was it done in frolic or humour, but mere necessity, the way being so stiff and deep that no horses could go in it.
Pagina 10 - Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury.
Pagina 2 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...