 | 802 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives of... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives of... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 616 pages
...Young, in his "Tour in the North of England," published in 1770.* * " I know not," writes Mr. Young, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...England," published in 1770.* * " I know not," writes Mr. Young, " in the whole range of Ianguage, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...one, not only to some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to be, at the least, decent ; but let me most seriously caution...it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil; lor a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows...breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which 1 actually mea.sured,-four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer. What, therefore,... | |
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... -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer... 
