The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II : Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle : Rules for Purchasing and Keeping Or Jobbing Horses and Carriages; Estimates of Expenses Occasioned Thereby; and an Easy Plan for Ascertaining Every Hackney-coach Fare, Volume 1William Kitchiner Henry Colburn, 1827 - Cab and omnibus service |
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... Road 100 For Personal Defence ... 104 Beds 107 Inns 110 . • Hints to Travellers on Horseback or in Car- riages . ... Expenses in Travelling with a pair of 122 Horses , & c . 135 Account of a Journey , by R. M. 143 Expenses of Travelling ...
... Road 100 For Personal Defence ... 104 Beds 107 Inns 110 . • Hints to Travellers on Horseback or in Car- riages . ... Expenses in Travelling with a pair of 122 Horses , & c . 135 Account of a Journey , by R. M. 143 Expenses of Travelling ...
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... Road is dusty , the Air is sultry , the Horses sluggish , -and the Postillion brutal . - He longs for the time of dinner , that he may eat and rest : -the Inn is crowded , his orders are neglected , and no- thing remains , but that he ...
... Road is dusty , the Air is sultry , the Horses sluggish , -and the Postillion brutal . - He longs for the time of dinner , that he may eat and rest : -the Inn is crowded , his orders are neglected , and no- thing remains , but that he ...
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... Road you are not perfectly well acquainted with , after it is dark - besides avoiding the danger of darkness , by ar- riving at your Inn early , you have the choice of the best Beds , best Provisions , & c . Above all things , avoid ...
... Road you are not perfectly well acquainted with , after it is dark - besides avoiding the danger of darkness , by ar- riving at your Inn early , you have the choice of the best Beds , best Provisions , & c . Above all things , avoid ...
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... Clothes , Blacking and Shoe Brushes , & c . & c . Carpet Bags , or Sacs de Nuit : Portable Writing and Dressing Cases in Russian Leather , & c . & c . 888372A IF YOU ARE ΤΟ SLEEP ON THE ROAD , THE SENT INTO THE COUNTRY . 99.
... Clothes , Blacking and Shoe Brushes , & c . & c . Carpet Bags , or Sacs de Nuit : Portable Writing and Dressing Cases in Russian Leather , & c . & c . 888372A IF YOU ARE ΤΟ SLEEP ON THE ROAD , THE SENT INTO THE COUNTRY . 99.
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... ROAD , THE Earlier you arrive , and the Earlier after your arrival you apply , the better the chance you have of getting a Good Bed : this done , order your Luggage to your Room : -A Tra- velling Bag , or a " Sac de nuit , " in addition ...
... ROAD , THE Earlier you arrive , and the Earlier after your arrival you apply , the better the chance you have of getting a Good Bed : this done , order your Luggage to your Room : -A Tra- velling Bag , or a " Sac de nuit , " in addition ...
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Page 170 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 175 - Green grow the rashes, O ; Green grow the rashes, O ; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent am'ang the lasses, O ! THERE'S nought but care on ev'ry han', In ev'ry hour that passes, O ; What signifies the life o' man, An
Page 7 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 169 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 166 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 41 - Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store should thankless pride repine ? Say, should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 10 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Page 17 - Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Page 223 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 167 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.