 ... 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 ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating...  The Industrial Revolution - Page 17by Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 105 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 802 pages
...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 of... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...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 to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...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 ruts, which I actually measured,... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1838 - 578 pages
...caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they 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,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...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 breakings-down." The locomotives of... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...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 ruts, which I actually measured,... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they 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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...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 they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts... | |
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