Our home islands [by T. Milner, Band 31857 |
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... have been the huge long wagon , which usually carried twenty or twenty - five passengers . This was followed by the coach , of lesser D proportions and lighter make . Sir William Dugdale , in MEANS OF CONVEYANCE . 25.
... have been the huge long wagon , which usually carried twenty or twenty - five passengers . This was followed by the coach , of lesser D proportions and lighter make . Sir William Dugdale , in MEANS OF CONVEYANCE . 25.
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... passengers or goods , and long afterwards , were necessarily heavy and massive in their structure , to enable them to resist the badness of the ways . Sometimes they sank half en- gulphed in bogs , or were overturned in dykes ; and ...
... passengers or goods , and long afterwards , were necessarily heavy and massive in their structure , to enable them to resist the badness of the ways . Sometimes they sank half en- gulphed in bogs , or were overturned in dykes ; and ...
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... passengers alighted , and walked into the town . On the third day they got to Leicester , thirty - two miles ; on the fourth , to Nottingham , twenty - six miles , where the coach had to be repaired ; on the fifth , they made Doncaster ...
... passengers alighted , and walked into the town . On the third day they got to Leicester , thirty - two miles ; on the fourth , to Nottingham , twenty - six miles , where the coach had to be repaired ; on the fifth , they made Doncaster ...
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... passengers , which made its appearance in a humble form , and with very moderate pretensions , as six and a - half miles an hour was the utmost speed expected to be attained . The ordinary correspondence of the kingdom had 32 OUR HOME ...
... passengers , which made its appearance in a humble form , and with very moderate pretensions , as six and a - half miles an hour was the utmost speed expected to be attained . The ordinary correspondence of the kingdom had 32 OUR HOME ...
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... passengers and commodities . By this cumbrous machinery , which was only in motion by day , com- munications could scarcely be exchanged between York and London in less time than a month , and friends at these places were thus more ...
... passengers and commodities . By this cumbrous machinery , which was only in motion by day , com- munications could scarcely be exchanged between York and London in less time than a month , and friends at these places were thus more ...
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Seite 115 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Seite 53 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Seite 243 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 64 - It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best.
Seite 209 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Seite 151 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O-er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night: The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail.
Seite 60 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Seite 247 - BUT yesterday a naked sod The dandies sneered from Rotten Row, And cantered o'er it to and fro : And see 'tis done ! As though 'twere by a wizard's rod A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the sun...
Seite 138 - As you enter the dock, the sight of the forest of masts in the distance, and the tall chimneys vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through the roofs, look like the paddle-boxes of huge steamers.
Seite 64 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...