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... cost of a con- tested Yorkshire election averaged £ 150,000 ; and it was estimated that in the battle of 1817 , the three parties had expended upwards of half a million . Everything was hired , from the mourning - coaches to the market ...
... cost of a con- tested Yorkshire election averaged £ 150,000 ; and it was estimated that in the battle of 1817 , the three parties had expended upwards of half a million . Everything was hired , from the mourning - coaches to the market ...
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... cost , as the case might be , from £ 50 to £ 150 . Even when the steamers with their cheap fares were introduced , the sorrows of the rough coasting - voyage were a serious objection . Consequently his interests and pleasures con ...
... cost , as the case might be , from £ 50 to £ 150 . Even when the steamers with their cheap fares were introduced , the sorrows of the rough coasting - voyage were a serious objection . Consequently his interests and pleasures con ...
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... cost on an average only about twenty - five pounds ; any untractable rogue was consigned to the coaching stables , and the queerest teams were consequent- ly hitched together . They were tamed on each successive day by a spell of severe ...
... cost on an average only about twenty - five pounds ; any untractable rogue was consigned to the coaching stables , and the queerest teams were consequent- ly hitched together . They were tamed on each successive day by a spell of severe ...
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... cost some four hundred pounds ; but for one who could afford the price it was well worth the money . It was furnished with the thoughtful care that came of that long experience which we bestow now on the equip- ment of an expedition to ...
... cost some four hundred pounds ; but for one who could afford the price it was well worth the money . It was furnished with the thoughtful care that came of that long experience which we bestow now on the equip- ment of an expedition to ...
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... cost of provisions , the traveller was not inordinately fleeced . For the more modest folk who contented themselves with the public conveyances , life on the Continent was then a miracle of cheapness . Lever knew the life well ; though ...
... cost of provisions , the traveller was not inordinately fleeced . For the more modest folk who contented themselves with the public conveyances , life on the Continent was then a miracle of cheapness . Lever knew the life well ; though ...
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