 I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for...  Railroad Freight Transportation - Page 419by Leonor Fresnel Loree - 1922 - 771 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1886 - 444 pages
...been worse than those in the south. Of the road between Preston and Wigan, Young wrote in 1770: — " I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal highway. Let me seriously caution all travellers ... to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand... | |
 | Frederick Clifford - 1887 - 1008 pages
...Arthur Young, who, in his Six Months' Tour (published in 1770), thus mentions a Wigan turnpike : — "I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road." He cautions all travellers "to avoid it as they would the devil. " " They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Frederick Clifford - 1887 - 996 pages
...Arthur Young, who, in his Six Months' Tour (published in 1770), thus mentions a Wigan turnpike : — lil know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road." He cautions all travellers " to avoid it as they would the devil." "They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Benjamin Thomas Barton - 1887 - 446 pages
...pen of Air. Arthur Young, after travelling upon the highroad between Wigan and Preston in 1770 : — "I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal highway. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1889 - 94 pages
...opportunity of expressing his feelings as "well as of describing the road: " I know not," he writes, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | American Economic Association - 1889 - 590 pages
...opportunity of expressing his feelings as well as of describing the road: " I know not," he writes, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | 1889 - 634 pages
...opportunity of expressing his feelings as well as of describing the road: " I know not," he writes, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1889 - 104 pages
...opportunity of expressing his feelings as -well as of describing the road: " I know not," he writes, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark - 1890 - 424 pages
...writes of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not, in tho whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive...this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would... | |
 | 1890 - 330 pages
...England, 1771), has left a tolerably vivid picture of the state of Lancashire turnpike roads : — " I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map and perceive that it is a principal road one would naturally conclude it to be at... | |
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