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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... nice Luncheon , and it would be convenient to lubricate the Red Lane , previous to Banqueting upon the Tortoise , in order to crack it , Mr. Eagle dropped " Exit his load upon Mr. Eschy's Noddle , upon 4 THE TRAVELLER'S ORACLE .
... nice Luncheon , and it would be convenient to lubricate the Red Lane , previous to Banqueting upon the Tortoise , in order to crack it , Mr. Eagle dropped " Exit his load upon Mr. Eschy's Noddle , upon 4 THE TRAVELLER'S ORACLE .
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... convenient for the pocket , and to refer to as often as he reads any account of the Country . " It hath been lately maintained in aca- demical dispute , that the best Travelling is in Maps and good Authors , because thereby a man may ...
... convenient for the pocket , and to refer to as often as he reads any account of the Country . " It hath been lately maintained in aca- demical dispute , that the best Travelling is in Maps and good Authors , because thereby a man may ...
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... convenient opportunity . " It cannot be too strongly impressed on the minds of persons about to travel , the ad- vantage that will result to them in making Memorandums of every thing that comes before their Notice , at the Moment : whe ...
... convenient opportunity . " It cannot be too strongly impressed on the minds of persons about to travel , the ad- vantage that will result to them in making Memorandums of every thing that comes before their Notice , at the Moment : whe ...
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... convenient that he can occasionally officiate as The Cook's , " or 66 and Carriage - Keeper's Oracle . " 66 The Horse " Excellent Servants , Swiss , Germans , or Italians , may always be procured by speaking to the keepers of ...
... convenient that he can occasionally officiate as The Cook's , " or 66 and Carriage - Keeper's Oracle . " 66 The Horse " Excellent Servants , Swiss , Germans , or Italians , may always be procured by speaking to the keepers of ...
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... convenient Instrument for a Traveller . Pencils LANGDON's , of Great Russell Street , are Excellent . A folding one Foot Rule , divided into eighths , tenths , and twelfths of inches . A Hunting Watch with Seconds , with a Detached ...
... convenient Instrument for a Traveller . Pencils LANGDON's , of Great Russell Street , are Excellent . A folding one Foot Rule , divided into eighths , tenths , and twelfths of inches . A Hunting Watch with Seconds , with a Detached ...
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Popular passages
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.