 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...from place to place ; and those highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expeoted from the degree of wealth and civilization which the...of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...Inventions, 1663. No. 68. "* North's Life of Guildford, 130. from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best...of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pages
...appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best...of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...travellers and goods generally passed from place to place. And those highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...travellers and goods generally passed from place to place. And those highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...Life of Guildford, 136. erally passed from place to place. And those highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were... | |
 | John Blakely - 1856 - 314 pages
...century. Of this period it is said by a living historian,* that even the "highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree...of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was scarcely possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from unenclosed... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1857 - 748 pages
...promptness in dealing. In these, how far we are this day superior to England then ! Macaulay says, "on the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish it, in the dark, from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 pages
...travellers and goods generally passed from place to pVnee ; and those highways appear to have been far worse than might have been expected from the degree...of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often each ns it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the... | |
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On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. 
