 | 1846 - 706 pagina’s
...Young, who has left us the following description of it :— ' I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal...necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud only... | |
 | 802 pagina’s
...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 - 474 pagina’s
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pagina’s
...roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike 1 know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand... | |
 | Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - 1836 - 514 pagina’s
...gnglanb in feiner „Six months Tour" 1770. „To Wigan." „I linow not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive, to describe this infernal...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 542 pagina’s
...seriously caution all travellers who may acciM'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it...necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pagina’s
...roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal...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... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1838 - 578 pagina’s
...roads in the north of England: — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal...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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
