| 1855 - 550 páginas
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust : " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 páginas
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| Alexander Andrews - 1856 - 372 páginas
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 536 páginas
...l*arbarisin, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilhury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage....assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge. To add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller, I must not forget the... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 532 páginas
...i'iv.1 ''l>J'al t§!• cursed roads," he savs, H:»' t-= ;:= '=' -' •/ in England im Jahrc 1782.' " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1862 - 632 páginas
...the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Bulericay to Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage....assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge. To add to all the infamous circumstances which occur to plague a traveller, I must not forget the eternally... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 páginas
...incredible depth," and he almost swore at one near Tilbury. " Of all the cursed roads," he says, " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| William Palin - 1871 - 254 páginas
...old Roman line of road throughout. They were not the people to leave it as he found it. He says, " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| William Palin - 1871 - 258 páginas
...old Roman line of road throughout. They were not the people to leave it as he found it. He says, " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot с pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
| John Hollingshead - 1874 - 378 páginas
...England for pleasure, than of going to Nubia. ' Of all the cursed roads,' says Arthur Young in 1769, ' that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow... | |
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