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" The pavement was detestable: all foreigners cried shame upon it. The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the gutters soon became torrents. Several facetious poets have commemorated the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and... "
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

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...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

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...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

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...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

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...
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Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh: With Notes on the ...

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...
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Cosas de Espaņa: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as They are, Volume 1

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...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: History of England

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...
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Hints for health, 2 lects. on the influence of air, water, food, and wine on ...

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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The Works of Lord Macaulay: History of England

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 688 pages
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