 This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In a work published a few months before the death of Charles the Second, the flying...  The History of England from the Accession of James II - Page 393by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.f This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...velocity is the subject of special commendation, and is triumphantly contrasted with the sluggish pace of the continental posts. But with boasts like these... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.** This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...published a few months before the death of Charles the * Anthony a Wood's Life of himself. *• Chamberlayne's Slate of England, 1684. See also the list of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.f This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...velocity is the subject of special commendation, and is triumphantly contrasted with the sluggish pace of the continental posts. But with boasts like these... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1861 - 1052 pages
...mount the roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.^ This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...our ancestors wonderfully, and, indeed, alarmingly rap'd. In a work published a few months before the death of Charles the Second, the flying coaches... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...four days during the fine season, but at Christmas not till the sixth day. These flying coaches were extolled as far superior to any similar vehicles ever...velocity is the subject of special commendation, and is triumphantly contrasted with the sluggish pace of the continental posts. Whatever might be the way... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...twopence • Anthony a Wood's Life of himself. halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.* This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...and indeed alarmingly rapid. In a work published a fewmonths before the death of Charles the Second, the flying coaches are extolled as far superior to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1866 - 668 pages
...roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter, t This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the...Second, the flying coaches are extolled as far superior t- > any similar vehicles ever known in the world. Their velocity is the subject of special commendation,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1867 - 794 pages
...roof. The ordinary fare was about twopence halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.* This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarde^ I as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 692 pages
...halfpenny a mile in summer, and somewhat more in winter.t This mode of travelling, which by Englislimea of the present day would be regarded as insufferably...known in the world. Their velocity is the subject of spacial commendation, and is triumphantly contrasted with the sluggish pace of the continental posts.... | |
 | A. Hoppe - English language - 1871 - 500 pages
...of Charles the Second, flying carriages ran thrice a week from London to the chief towns. — ib.: in a work published a few months before the death...superior to any similar vehicles ever known in the world. — FLYINO BUTTRESS, s. Str. паф Beil: flcigenb« Sogen (beffer: Strebebogen?). Sé ift ein Sogen,... | |
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