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 unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. The Foundations of Rhetoric - Side 341af Adams Sherman Hill - 1893 - 371 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 sider
...have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilization which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep,...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary, was... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 sider
...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 deep,...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary, was... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 sider
...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 deep,...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary, was... | |
| John Blakely - 1856 - 302 sider
...have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilization which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep,...descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was scarcely possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from unenclosed heath and fen, which lay on both sides... | |
| Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1857 - 748 sider
...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...often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish it, in the dark, from the iminclosed heath, and the jern which lay on both sides. It was only in fine... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 sider
...have been expected from the degree of wealth and civilization which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines 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 unenclosed heath and fen which... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 sider
...and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the rute were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary, was... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 sider
...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 deep,...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. It was only in fine weather that the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 sider
...expected . III- . from the degree of wealth and civilisation which the nation had even then attained. On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep,...such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary, was... | |
| 1875 - 530 sider
...England we have a graphic description in the introduction to Lord Macaulay's History. On the best lines the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and...it was hardly possible to distinguish in the dark. Only in fine weather the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles, only a narrow... | |
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