| John Hill Burton - 1849 - Liczba stron: 356
...wretchedness of the English roads in the seventeenth century, and the miseries of travelling, says, ' One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Liczba stron: 470
...hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud.* Ono chief cause of the badness of the roads seems to have...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Liczba stron: 552
...his coach was overturned or stuck fastun the mud.|| One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems have been the defective state of the law. Every parish...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the' year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - Liczba stron: 1052
...coach was overturned or stuck fast in -he mud.'y One chief cause of the badness of the roads •eems to have been the defective state of the law. Every...to repair the highways which passed through it. The peawere forced to give their gratuitous • Tbnrr.by's Diary, May 17, 1695. t ídem. Dw. 27. 170S.... | |
| James Birchall - 1861 - Liczba stron: 760
...This was ^pairing owing to the defective state of the law, which only bound highways. evei.y parish to repair the highways which passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year, and if this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - Liczba stron: 668
...in a body to Parliament with guides and numerous attendants, took him into their company. || On the One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| 1867 - Liczba stron: 634
...hours he never once alighted, except when the coach was overturned or stack in the mud. One chief canse of the badness of the roads seems to have been the...state of the law. Every parish was bound to repair the highway that passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give gratuitous labour six days in the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - Liczba stron: 476
...§ Annals of Queen Anne, Earl of Clarendon, Dec. 30. 1685, 1703, Appendix, No. 3. Jan. 1. 1686. cc 3 One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give theii gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed,... | |
| Edward Jeboult - 1873 - Liczba stron: 394
...fourteen hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud. Quo chief cause of the badness of the roads seems to have...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - Liczba stron: 738
...fourteen hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud.f One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
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