 | 1855 - 550 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. 
