| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - Počet stránok 686
...earliest productions. Like Cobbett, he preserved his freshness and originality to the last. " Railroad travelling," he observes, " is a delightful improvement...the aching finger of her conjugating and declining grammar boy. The early Scotchman scratches himself in the morning mists of the north, and has his porridge... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - Počet stránok 682
...earliest productions. Like Cobbett, he preserved his freshness and originality to the last. " Railroad travelling," he observes, "is a delightful improvement...the aching finger of her conjugating and declining grammar boy. The early Scotchman scratches himself in the morning mists of the north, and has his porridge... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1845 - Počet stránok 496
...removed. The axle was nearly in two, and in another mile would have been severed. Railroad travelling is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is...the aching finger of her conjugating and declining grammar boy. The early Scotchman scratches himself in the morning mists of the North, and has his porridge... | |
| Joe Miller - 1848 - Počet stránok 248
...— Jo: Miller, page 12. MODERN LOCOMOTION. — " Railroad travelling," says the Rev. Sydney Smith, " is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is...become a bird ; he can fly longer and quicker than a Solon goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours to the aching finger of her conjugating and... | |
| 1912 - Počet stránok 666
...letter to the editor of The Morning Chronicle, and is dated 7 June, 1 842 : — " Railroad travelling Ы a delightful improvement of human life. Man is become a bird ; he can 11 y longer and quicker than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours to the aching... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - Počet stránok 252
...I do not, I must think him a beast.— Lord Chesterfield. RAILROAD TRAVELLING. Eailroad travelling is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is...morning mists of the North, and has his porridge in Picadilly before the setting sun. The Puseyite priest, after a rush of a hundred miles, appears with... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1856 - Počet stránok 490
...removed. The axle was nearly in two, and in another mile would have been severed. Railroad travelling is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is...himself in the morning mists of the north, and has porridge in Piccadilly, before the setting sun. The Puseyite priest, after a rush of one hundred miles,... | |
| 1857 - Počet stránok 830
...REPORTS OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL ON ТПЕ POST OFFICE. ' RAILWAY travelling,' said Sydney Smith, '. is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is become a bird ; he can fly longer and swifter than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours to the aching finger of her conjugaling-and-dccli... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1859 - Počet stránok 392
...and in another mile would have been severed. Railroad travelling is a delightful improvement of hnman life. Man is become a bird ; he can fly longer and...the aching finger of her conjugating and declining grammar boy. The early Scotchman scratches himself in the morning mists of the North, and has his porridge... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1865 - Počet stránok 478
...removed. The axle was nearly in two, and in another mile would have been severed. Railroad travelling is a delightful improvement of human life. Man is become a bird ; he can fly longcr and quicker than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours to the aching finger... | |
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