 | Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - 234 sivua
...the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach, generally reached London in four days during the fine...season, but at Christmas not till the sixth day. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter. 7. This mode... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...accidents were so frequent that it would have been most perilous1 to mount the roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence-halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 sivua
...in the summer; but in winter, when the ways were bad and the nights long, little more than thirty. The passengers, six in number, were all seated in...perilous to mount the roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence-halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter. 9. In spite of the attractions of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...summer, and somewhat more in winter. This mode of traveling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 590 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...summer, and somewhat more in winter. This mode of traveling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to... | |
 | James Howard Bridge - 1902 - 304 sivua
...beert overcome. Macaulay, in his reference to the introduction of the stage coach in England, says: "This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and alarmingly rapid. In a work... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 sivua
...and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...and somewhat more in winter. This mode of travelling seemed to OUT ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In a work published a few months before... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 184 sivua
...the nights long, little more than thirty. 25 The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine...accidents were so frequent that it would have been most 30 perilous to mount the roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and... | |
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The ordinary day's journey of a flying coach was about fifty miles in the summer ; but in winter, when the ways were bad and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in... 
