England and the English in the eighteenth century: Chapters in the social history of the times ; in 2 vol, Volume 2Ward & Downey, 1892 - 418 pagina's |
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... Footpads and highwaymen -- Inns and alehouses — The post — Establishment of the mail - coach system PAGE I CHAPTER XII . FAVOURITE HEALTH RESORTS . The rise of the spas - Metropolitan spas - Hampstead Wells - Isling ton spa - The new ...
... Footpads and highwaymen -- Inns and alehouses — The post — Establishment of the mail - coach system PAGE I CHAPTER XII . FAVOURITE HEALTH RESORTS . The rise of the spas - Metropolitan spas - Hampstead Wells - Isling ton spa - The new ...
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... Footpads and highway- men - Inns and alehouses - The post - Establishment of the mail- coach system . To the civilisation of a nation nothing is so absolutely essential as a system of good roads . It is that which constitutes the founda ...
... Footpads and highway- men - Inns and alehouses - The post - Establishment of the mail- coach system . To the civilisation of a nation nothing is so absolutely essential as a system of good roads . It is that which constitutes the founda ...
Pagina 16
... footpads was left for dead in a ditch near the highway at night ; where , after lying ' motionless a long time , he just began to recover his senses as a stage - coach came by . The postilion hearing a man's groans , stopped his horses ...
... footpads was left for dead in a ditch near the highway at night ; where , after lying ' motionless a long time , he just began to recover his senses as a stage - coach came by . The postilion hearing a man's groans , stopped his horses ...
Pagina 29
... footpads - ' knights of the road ' as they were commonly styled . For two centuries they had been the bugbear of travellers , and they reached the zenith of their fame when the second George ascended the throne . All the approaches to ...
... footpads - ' knights of the road ' as they were commonly styled . For two centuries they had been the bugbear of travellers , and they reached the zenith of their fame when the second George ascended the throne . All the approaches to ...
Pagina 30
... footpads , ' ' some ' had been arrested by the watch , or when , in order to terrify the susceptibilities of nervous people , they go so far as to declare that ' murders and robberies have never been more frequent than during this last ...
... footpads , ' ' some ' had been arrested by the watch , or when , in order to terrify the susceptibilities of nervous people , they go so far as to declare that ' murders and robberies have never been more frequent than during this last ...
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