 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...playing in London and Middlesex for the most part. The number of watermen, and those that live and are maintained by them, and by the only labour of the oar and scull, cannot be fewer than forty thousand ; the cause of the greater half of which multitude hath been the... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 328 pages
...playing in London and Middlesex for the most part. The number of watermen, and those that live and are maintained by them, and by the only labour of the oar and scull, cannot be fewer than forty thousand ; the cause of the greater half of which multitude hath been the... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 326 pages
...playing in London and Middlesex for the most part. The number of watermen, and those that live and are maintained by them, and by the only labour of the oar and scull, cannot be fewer than forty thousand ; the cause of ihe ffreater half of which multitude hath been the... | |
 | John Jones - English literature - 1831 - 356 pages
...gave employment c to more men than any other trade or calling in the metropolis. Taylor, indeed, says, that " the number of watermen and those that lived...of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be fewer than forty thousand." There may be some exaggeration in this ; but when this assertion was made, the company... | |
 | John Jones - Poets, English - 1831 - 362 pages
...gave employment c to more men than any other trade or calling in the metropolis. Taylor, indeed, says, that " the number of watermen and those that lived...of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be fewer than forty thousand." There may be some exaggeration in this ; but when this assertion was made, the company... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...coaches ; the places of public amusement were almost all on the Surrey side ; and, as Taylor says, ' the number of watermen, and those that lived and were...of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be fewer than forty thousand.' There may be some exaggeration here, but we must remember, that in Elizabeth's time... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...coaches ; the places of public amusement were almost all on the Surrey side ; and, as Taylor says, ' the number of watermen, and those that lived and were...of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be fewer than forty thousand.' There may be some exaggeration here, but we must remember, that in Elizabeth's time... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...coaches ; the places of public amusement were almost all on the Surrey side ; and, as Taylor says, ' the number of watermen, and those that lived and were...the bridge of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be tewer than forty thousand.' There may be some exaggeration here, but we must remember, that in Elizabeth's... | |
 | 1831 - 446 pages
...coaches; the places of public amusement were almost all on the Surrey side ; and, as Taylor says, " the number of watermen, and those that lived and were...the bridge of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be tewer thiiii forty thousand." There may be юте exaggeration here, but we must remember, that in... | |
 | John Jones, Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1836 - 360 pages
...gave employment c to more men than any other trade or calling in the metropolis. Taylor, indeed, says, that " the number of watermen and those that lived...of Windsor and Gravesend, could not be fewer than forty thousand." There may be some exaggeration in this; but when this assertion was made, the company... | |
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... scull, betwixt the bridge of Windsor and Gravesend, cannot be fewer than forty thousand ; the cause of the greater half of which multitude, hath been the players playing on the Bankside... 
