 | 1855 - 518 sivua
...author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust : " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...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 - 356 sivua
...author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...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 sivua
...author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...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 - 254 sivua
...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 in the very ages...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 sivua
...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 in the very ages...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 836 sivua
...Wales (1768 — 1770) is full of complaints about the roads. He passes along an Essex road ' for 12 miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his wagon to help me to lift if possible my chaise over a hedge.' He finds the roads blocked up by carts... | |
 | 1886 - 848 sivua
...Buller. Two years before he had given little Samuel Taylor Coleridge a presentation to Christ's Hospital. barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay...Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that л mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if... | |
 | Miller Christy - 1887 - 206 sivua
...from the era of the Stuarts or earlier. Arthur Young, in 1771, declares that " of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...that from Billericay to the KING'S HEAD at Tilbury." In 1678 a KING'S HEAD at Rickling formed a house of call for Poor Robin •on his Perambulation from... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 644 sivua
...Manchester is good, but further it is not penetrable.' In Essex he describes a road to Tilbury as ' for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage ; ' overshadowed except in a few places by trees that were totally impervious to the sun, and so bad... | |
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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. 
