 | 1841 - 488 pages
...that in less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in chairs (sedans), 'which are here very cheap — a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour, and your chairmen serve you for porters to rim on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. If it be fine weather, we... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 846 pages
...the adjoining house.f at the beginning of 1768. The following is a copy of this document at length : which are here very cheap, a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour, and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. If it be fine weather, we... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...in less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in sedanchairs, which are here very cheap — a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. If it be fine weather, we... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...in less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in sedanchairs, which are here very cheap — a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. If it be fine weather, we... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in sedan chairs, which are here very cheap, a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice." The sign of the Star and... | |
 | John Timbs - Astronomy - 1859 - 312 pages
...1702, says: "We are carried to these places (the coffee-houses of Pall-mall and St. James's-street) in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap —...a week, or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters, to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. " Dryden has, " close mew'd... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in chairs or sedans, which we have very cheap — a guinea a week or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondolas do at Venice." In the coffee-houses of the... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 338 pages
...1702, says: "We are carried to these places (the coffee-houses of Pall Mall and St. James's Street) in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap—...a week, or a shilling per hour ; and your chairmen serve you for porters, to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice." Dry den has, " close mew'd... | |
 | 1866 - 768 pages
...another, that in less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these places in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap,...week, or a shilling per hour, — and your chairmen serve you for portera to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. " ' If it be fine weather,... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - Inn signs - 1866 - 616 pages
...mad the towne." J De Foe, in 1702, says, "We are carried to these places [coffeehouses] in chairs, which are here very cheap — a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour — and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice." The chairmen of the aristocracy... | |
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We are carried to these places in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap, a guinea a week, or a shilling per hour, and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands, as your gondoliers do at Venice. 
