 ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.  Chambers's papers for the people - Page 3by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Dionysius Lardner - Arts - 1854 - 466 pages
...winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." And again he says (speaking of a turnpike road near Warrington, now superseded by the Grand Junction... | |
 | Alexander Monro - New Brunswick - 1855 - 416 pages
...1 The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' " " And again," he says, (speaking of a turnpike road near Warrington, now superseded by the Grand... | |
 | Alexander Monro - New Brunswick - 1855 - 412 pages
...1 The only mending it receives is tumbling jn some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.'" "And again," he says, (speaking of a turnpike road near Warrington, now superseded by the Grand Junction... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1856 - 812 pages
...winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serves no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." Subsequently, in speaking of a turnpike-road near Warrington, he says : This a paved road, most infamously... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1856 - 352 pages
...winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." And again he says (speaking of a turnpike road near Warrington, now superseded by the Grand Junction... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1863 - 648 pages
...mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it reseivea in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." It is only by contrasting our present advantages with the inconveniences and discomforts of our fathers... | |
 | Gilbert James French - Spinning - 1859 - 340 pages
...a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." It was only during the year before that in which Samuel Crompton was born that a second church was... | |
 | Gilbert James French - Inventors - 1859 - 340 pages
...a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." It was only during the year before that in which Samuel Crompton was born that a second church was... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1859 - 344 pages
...wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only " mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve...down in these " eighteen miles of execrable memory." , t A full account of it by his own hand, was printed in 1851, by the Irish Archeeological Society,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1859 - 460 pages
...winter ! The only mending it receives in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serves no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosmo III., visited England in 1669, and made a journey through some of... | |
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