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" I have now left your houses, and am passing through your streets, but not in a coach, for they are uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for sedans upon wheels. Nor is it safe for a stranger to use them till the quarrel be decided, whether six... "
English Pleasure Carriages: Their Origin, History, Varieties, Materials ... - Page 51
by William Bridges Adams - 1837 - 315 pages
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 1

David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 708 pages
...carriers in summer, and may be held, if taflfata, to have lined your grand-sires skirts. LONDON. 18 , streets, but not in a coach, for they are uneasily...your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe, where there is wonderful...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 1

David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 710 pages
...am passing that of your 4 streets, streets, but not in a coach, for they are uneasily hung, and «o narrow, that I took them for sedans upon wheels ;...your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe, where there is wonderful...
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Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the ..., Volume 2

James Peller Malcolm - London (England) - 1810 - 538 pages
...Streets ; but not in a Coach, for they are uneasily hung, and so narrow that I took them for a Sedan upon wheels : nor is it safe for a stranger to use...nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your City is the only Metropolis of Europe where there is a wonderful dignity...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 2

Architecture - 1814 - 1004 pages
...aad discharge" of F 3 all " 1 have now left your honses, and am pasting tlirongh your streets ; bat not in a coach, for they are uneasily hung, and so...use them till the quarrel be decided, whether six of yi ur nobles, sttting together, shall •top and give way to at many barrels of beer. Your City is...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 2

Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1814 - 924 pages
...I have now left your houses, and am passing through your streets ; but not in a coach, for they arc uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for...use them till the quarrel be decided, whether six of ymr nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your City is the...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 11, Part 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1814 - 932 pages
...they are uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for sedans upon wheels : nor is it safe (or a stranger to use them till the quarrel be decided,...your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your City is the only metro* polis in Europe, where there is a wonderful...
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London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 2

Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1814 - 936 pages
...they are uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for sedans upon wheels : nor is it safe (or a stranger •to use them till the quarrel be decided,...whether six of your nobles, sitting together, shall •top and give way to as many barrels of beer. Your City is the only metropolis in Europe, where there...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 4

1824 - 462 pages
...for they are uneasily hung, and so narrow, that I took them for a sedan upon wheels : nor is it safer for a stranger to use them, 'till the quarrel be decided,...nobles, sitting together, shall stop, and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis of Europe, where there is a wonderful dignity...
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Some Remarks on the Early Use of Carriages in England, Volume 20

James Heywood Markland - Carriages and carts - 1824 - 692 pages
...capitals. The Parisian, after some sharp comments on the domestic arrangements of the English, adds, " I have now left your houses, and am passing through...nobles sitting together shall stop and give place to as many barrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe where there is a wonderful dignity...
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London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Volume 1

Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 388 pages
...the use of them, which we suspect time has done but little to obviate. " Nor is it safe," he says, " for a stranger to use them till the quarrel be decided,...your nobles, sitting together, shall stop and give way to as many harrels of beer. Your city is the only metropolis in Europe, where there is wonderful...
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