Brighton and Its Coaches: A History of the London and Brighton Road, with Some Account of the Provincial Coaches that Have Run from Brighton

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J. C. Nimmo, 1894 - Brighton (England) - 354 pages
 

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Page 318 - But the privy council, incensed by his disloyalty, unanimously opened the door, and kicked him into the inside. He had all the inside places to himself; but such is the rapacity of ambition, that he was still dissatisfied.
Page 20 - I left it, I fell immediately upon all that was most bad, upon a land desolate and muddy, whether inhabited by men or beasts a stranger could not easily distinguish, and upon roads which were, to explain concisely what is most abominable...
Page 6 - ... life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated; and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip , or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.
Page 30 - ... health or body by hard jogging, or over-violent motion; and this, not only at a low price, as about a shilling for every five miles, but with such velocity and speed...
Page 20 - I fell immediately upon all that was most bad, upon a land desolate and muddy, whether inhabited by men or beasts a stranger could not easily distinguish, and upon roads which were, to explain concisely what is most abominable, Sussexian.* No one would imagine them to be intended for the people and the public, but rather the byways of individuals, or more truly the tracks of cattle-drivers ; for everywhere the usual footmarks of oxen appeared, and we too, who were on horseback, going on zigzag almost...
Page 31 - ... small occasion, which otherwise they would not do, but upon urgent necessity ; nay, the convenience of the passage makes their wives often come up, who, rather than come such long journeys on horseback, would stay at home.
Page 317 - Excellency communicated these in a diplomatic whisper at the very moment of his departure, the celestial intellect was very feebly illuminated, and it became necessary to call a cabinet council on the grand state question, "Where was the Emperor to sit?
Page 191 - I have escaped that dilemma ; for (he concluded) when a man is always going backwards and forwards between two points, what is the use of a wife ? A coachman could never be much more than half married. Now, if the law — in the case of coachmen — allowed two wives, that would be quite another story, because he could then have the tea-things set out at both ends of his journey.
Page 20 - Not even now, though in summer time, is the wintry state of the roads got rid of; for the wet, retained even till now in this mud, is sometimes splashed upwards all of a sudden to the annoyance of travellers. Our horses could not keep on their legs on account of these slippery and rough parts of the roads, but sliding and tumbling on their way, and almost on their haunches, with all their haste...

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