 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." * Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pages
...cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from ores-turning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures."• Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 508 pages
...to support my chaise from Let me persuade all travellers to c 4 overturning. 24 A TREATISE ON ROADS. avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or buiy them in muddy sand. " It is only bad management that can occasion such very miserable roads, in... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures."* Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.' " — pp. 32 — 34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress,, a fact more... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Railroads - 1850 - 572 pages
...of a turnpike road near Warrington, now superseded by the Grand Junction Railway,) " This is a paved road, most infamously bad. Any person would imagine...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." CHAP, n.] THE PBOGRESS OF TRANSPORT. 35 Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Yonng... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which mu¿t cither dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.'" — pp. 32—34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress, a fact more striking... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...when, and in the very neighbourhood from which, the first idea of locomotive steamengines was taken. " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined ; I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." When, however, business between town and country augmented, and a quick transit was rendered necessary,... | |
 | Industries - 1851 - 748 pages
...* See Appendix in Illustration. is cut at once into ruts," etc. — " Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in sandy mud." This was spoken in 1770, of one of the wealthiest portions of England, which is at present,... | |
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Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand. 
