| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...considered as insupportable grievances. . The pavement was detestable ; all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage- was so bad, that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...considered as insupportable grievances. The pavement was detestable; all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...considered as insupportable grievances. The pavement was detestable ; all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 pages
...all foreigiieri cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad, that in rainy weather the gutters goon became torrents. Several facetious poets have commemorated...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Sir James David Marwick - 1865 - 464 pages
...considered as insupportable grievances. The pavement was detestable ; all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad, that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - 1866 - 328 pages
...in 1866. "The pavement," says the writer, "was detestable; all foreigners cried out shame upon it. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...considered as insupportable grievances. The pavement was detestable: all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from... | |
| John Sherwood Stocker - 1874 - 60 pages
...History of England, describing the condition of London during the reign of Charles II., states that the drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the...the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to tho fleet ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth,... | |
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