The Manchester & Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volum 1C. Palmer, 1924 |
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... Hill Terrible , sits the City Beautiful , reached along a delectable road that wanders , now across open heaths and then disappears in the welcome shade of hoary woods ; reappearing to reach its goal beside mountain streams and torrents ...
... Hill Terrible , sits the City Beautiful , reached along a delectable road that wanders , now across open heaths and then disappears in the welcome shade of hoary woods ; reappearing to reach its goal beside mountain streams and torrents ...
Pàgina viii
... hills , and messages were passed on from one to another by means of revolving shutters or semaphore arms . The system originated about 1795 , and came into use along this road in 1803. We read in the " Observer of that period the ...
... hills , and messages were passed on from one to another by means of revolving shutters or semaphore arms . The system originated about 1795 , and came into use along this road in 1803. We read in the " Observer of that period the ...
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... Hill London Colney ( Cross River Colne ) St. Albans ( Peahen " ) Redbourne Friar's Wash Markyate Dunstable ( " Crown " ) Hockliffe Woburn Woburn Sands 141 16 173 203 25 27 호 29 33 371 42 433 Wavendon Broughton Newport Pagnell ( Cross ...
... Hill London Colney ( Cross River Colne ) St. Albans ( Peahen " ) Redbourne Friar's Wash Markyate Dunstable ( " Crown " ) Hockliffe Woburn Woburn Sands 141 16 173 203 25 27 호 29 33 371 42 433 Wavendon Broughton Newport Pagnell ( Cross ...
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... Hill Gate 1441 Waterhouses Winkhill Bottom Inn ( " Green Man " ) Bradnop Low Hill 145 1462 148 1502 151 1521 Leek ( Market Place ) Pool End 154 Rushton Marsh 1571 ( Cross River Dane ) . Bosley Macclesfield 160 1651 Titherington 166 ...
... Hill Gate 1441 Waterhouses Winkhill Bottom Inn ( " Green Man " ) Bradnop Low Hill 145 1462 148 1502 151 1521 Leek ( Market Place ) Pool End 154 Rushton Marsh 1571 ( Cross River Dane ) . Bosley Macclesfield 160 1651 Titherington 166 ...
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... Hill ; " Buck , " Hanging Ditch ; " Boar's Head , " Hyde's Cross , and others a swarm of short - distance coaches set out . 99 99 The chief mail contractor at Manchester in the early days of coaching was Alexander Paterson , who removed ...
... Hill ; " Buck , " Hanging Ditch ; " Boar's Head , " Hyde's Cross , and others a swarm of short - distance coaches set out . 99 99 The chief mail contractor at Manchester in the early days of coaching was Alexander Paterson , who removed ...
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The Manchester and Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volum 1 Charles George Harper Visualització completa - 1907 |
The Manchester and Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volum 1 Charles George Harper Visualització completa - 1907 |
The Manchester and Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volum 1 Charles George Harper Visualització completa - 1907 |
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Pàgina 238 - Those joyous hours are passed away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk those dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells.
Pàgina 144 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Pàgina 122 - ... and so we did for two miles, till he caught me unawares, and dragged me into the dispute before I knew where I was. He then grew warmer and warmer; — told me I was rotten at heart, and supposed I was one of John Wesley's followers. I told him, ' No ! I am John Wesley himself...
Pàgina 177 - Kyngston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is my just reward...
Pàgina 183 - Cave here lie in Grave, Or Grave here lie in Cave ; If Grave in Cave here buried lie, Then Grave, where is thy victory ? Go reader, and report, here lies a Cave, Who conquers Death, and buries his own Grave.
Pàgina 177 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last), full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven...
Pàgina 192 - THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.
Pàgina 107 - Lo in this tomb of travellers do ly, One rich in nothing but in memory, His name was Sir John Mandeville, content, Having seen much mirth, with small confinement ; Towards which he travelled ever since his birth. And at last pawned his body to the earth, Which by a statute must in mortgage be Till a Redeemer come to set it free.
Pàgina 114 - In that way of putting things together his Grace is perfectly in the right. The grants to the House of Russell were so enormous as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. The Duke of Bedford is the leviathan among all the creatures of the crown. He tumbles about his unwieldy bulk, he plays and frolics in the ocean of the royal bounty. Huge as he is, and whilst 'he lies floating many a rood
Pàgina 19 - However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (barring accidents) arrive in London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester...