 Had you seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade." The view here, looking either east or west, is at sunset — simply magnificent. From Kirn on the Clyde...  Russia - Sivu 20tekijä(t) Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - 1877 - 472 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | B. Ducos - 1834 - 446 sivua
...alors comme fort important , et qui devait plus tard être surpassé : . Ha<î you st'en this roud before it was made , Y'ou'd lift up your hands, and bless general \Vadei. Il suffisait de jeter les yeux sur la grande vallée transversale d'Ecosse , pour y reconnaître... | |
 | 1849 - 498 sivua
...fern instead of heather, and yet it was rather jolty as it went along the unmade road : — ' If you'd seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade,' is applicable, with a little variation, to the New Zealand roads and road-makers. The 'wading' was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 sivua
...conquered. It was making roads through the Highlands that rooted out the rebellions. " Had you seen but this road Before it was made, You'd lift up your hands And bless General Wade." What England was, Europe still is. There were roads, but only for the wealthy few — till the late... | |
 | William Bridges Adams - 1862 - 392 sivua
...conquered. It was making roads through the Highlands that rooted out rebellion : . " Had you seen but this road] Before it was made, You'd lift up your hands And bless General Wade." What England was, Europe still is. There were roads, but only for the wealthy few — till the advent... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1864 - 802 sivua
...William in commemoration of the completion of the road between Inverness and Inverary, — Had yon seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade. "When Wade first traversed this road in a coach and six, in 1726, the Highlanders were almost awed... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1864 - 430 sivua
...condition is still such' as to make the passenger sympathise with the Irishlike saying— "If you'd seen this road before it was made. You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade." Thus those who wish to make a pilgrimage along the Wall may do so in a carriage for the first 19 m.... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 366 sivua
...express no more than the truth in relation to the road between Inverness and Inverary : — "Had you seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade." Still the progress was not so decided as in England. The difficulties encountered in travelling in... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 406 sivua
...direction of Marshal Wade, erected on a conspicuous part a stone with this inscription : " Had you seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade." 595/^ENERAL BUTTON, brother to Sir Robert ^~^ Sutton, was very passionate, and calling... | |
 | George E. Warner, Charles M. Foote - 1881 - 672 sivua
...there was nothing in its entire distance that could ever recall the name of Macadam. If popular rumor is to be trusted, there is somewhere in the Highlands...before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Gen. Wade." An educated individual reading this strange announcement, would naturally remark that the... | |
 | David MacBrayne (ltd.) - 1882 - 150 sivua
...yclept " The Devil's Staircase," and we fancy that to it applies the paradoxical couplet, — "Had you seen this road before it was made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade." The view here, looking either east or west, is at sunset — simply magnificent. From Kirn on the Clyde... | |
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