 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
 | W. J. Wiltshire - 1913 - 296 pages
...furnished by the celebrated Arthur Young in his " Tour." Speaking of a highway in Lancashire, he declares : "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 the principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | 1913 - 192 pages
...the extract would refer equally well to George II or George III ? 128. To Wigan. Turnpike—very bad. 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 one, not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1914 - 952 pages
...book of 1770 gives a graphic description of a main road at that time — that from Preston to Wigan. " I know not, in the whole range of language, terms...infernal road . . . let me most seriously caution all travellers to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle - 1917 - 534 pages
...summer," and passed three broken-down carts. " I know not in the whole range of language," he says, " 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... | |
 | John Joly - 1920 - 292 pages
...roads in the North of England : " To Wigan, by Turnpike. — I know in the whole range of language no 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... | |
 | Ephraim Lipson - 1921 - 298 pages
...Young's denunciation of the road between Preston and Wigan deserves to be quoted in this connection. " 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 one not only to some towns, but even whole... | |
 | Robert Lionel Sherlock - 1922 - 408 pages
...could go in it." Arthur Young in " Six Months Tour," published in 1770, says: "To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not, in the whole range of language, terms...this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 pages
...Pontefract. Cross. Indifferent. From Lancaster to Preston. Turnpike. Very bad. From Preston to Wigan. Ditto. I know not, in the whole range of language, terms...infernal road. . . . Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1923 - 352 pages
...the side of which the London and North Western Railway now runs, from Preston for Wigan, he wrote : ' I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road.' Again : ' If possible this execrable road (Liverpool to Altrincham) is worse than that from Preston.'... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1926 - 316 pages
...Preston and Wigan, then the great highway between the North of England and London, as follows: — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it ns they would... | |
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