 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...be." A GUIDE TO EQUESTRIANS. The la\tf of the roads is a paradox quite, For in orderly riding along, If you go to the left you are sure to go right, But if you go right you go wrong. THE THOROUGHFARE. " My head, Tom, 's confused with your nonsense... | |
 | Hunting - 1826 - 540 pages
...saddle Jiorse ; and " the off," of course the other. These terms were afterwards rendered applicable to the road, where in meeting carriages, according...adage, " If you go to the left you are sure to go right1' — " if you go to the rig/it, you are wrong." How far my opinion may be correct, I leave to... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 462 pages
...the old English stanza of, " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, As the carriages jog it along : If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, But, if you go right, you go wrong." There is one recommendation, however, to the " drivers," that... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 568 pages
...old English stanza of, ' " The rule of the toad is a paradox quite, As the carriages jog it along : If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, But, if you go right, you go wrong." There is one recommendation, however, to the "drivers," that they... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1841 - 446 pages
...own side. Still — " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, I confess I have thought it so long; If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you are wrong." P. Speaking to coach-horses on the box is quite out of fashion. C. Coachmen, forty years back, like... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Cuba - 1857 - 506 pages
...paradox, though here reversed, — " The law of the road is a paradox quite, For in orderly riding along, If you go to the left, you are sure to go right; If you go to the right, you go wrong." The usual dinner-hour at New York, as is general in the cities of America, is three o'clock.... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...n'rangknm. The Rule of the Road. The rule of the road is a paradox quite, Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If yo\igo to the right yowgo wrong : But in walking the streets, 't is a different case, To the right... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...THE RULE OF THE ROAD. r"PHE rule of the road is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong : But in walking the streets, 'tis a different case, To the right it is right you should bear,... | |
 | Epigrams - English wit and humor - 1868 - 144 pages
...Herbert. THE RULE OF THE ROAD. The rule of the road, is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong : But in walking the streets, 'tis a different case, To the right it is right you should bear,... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...sight. THE RULE OF THE ROAD. THE rule of the road is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong : But in walking the streets 'tis a different case, To the right it is right you should bear,... | |
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THE RULE OF THE ROAD. The rule of the road, is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong... 
