The Progress of Locomotion: Being Two Lectures on the Advances Made in Artificial Locomotion in Great Britain

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Halaman 26 - In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. And after a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches, and rid in them up and down the countries, to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then, by little and little, they grew usual among the nobility and others of sort, and within twenty years became a great trade of coachmaking.
Halaman 17 - ... if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it, or supported it with their shoulders, from Godalming almost to Petworth ; and the nearer we approached the duke's house the more inaccessible it seemed to be. The last nine miles of the way cost us six hours...
Halaman 34 - Maypole, in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and performed their journeys at the same rate.
Halaman 79 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Halaman 37 - In the wide gulf the shatter'd coach o'erthrown Sinks with the snorting steeds ; the reins are broke, And from the crackling axle flies the...
Halaman 36 - That the great number of Hackney Coaches of late time seen and kept in London, Westminster, and their Suburbs, and the general and promiscuous use of Coaches there, were not only a great disturbance to his Majesty, his dearest Consort the Queen, the Nobility, and others of place and degree, in their passage through the streets...
Halaman 15 - very foul, and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noyous, as well for the king's subjects on horseback as on foot, and with carriages.
Halaman 34 - He hath erected, according to his ability, some four hackney-coaches, put his men in livery, and appointed them to stand at the May-pole in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all clay they may be had.
Halaman 10 - ... forests lay Wide trackless wastes, that never saw the day : Rich fruitful plains, now waving deep with corn, Frown'd rough and shaggy with the tangled thorn : Through joyless heaths, and valleys dark with woods, Majestic rivers roll'd their useless floods : Full oft the hunter check'd his ardent chace, Dreading the latent bog and green morass : While, like a blasting mildew, wide were spread Blue thickening mists in stagnant marshes bred.
Halaman 33 - Then, sowse ! we are all set fast in a slough. Whaw, cries miss ! Scream, go the maids! and bawl, just as tho'f they were stuck. And so, mercy on us ! this was the trade from morning to night.

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