 | Edward Parsons - Bradford (England : Unitary authority) - 1834 - 488 pages
...fall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of a fox chase, and the boldest of their country neighbours had no...a field of action no less perilous than hedges and five barred gates, while the diligent pursuit of their lawful callings certainly afforded a more justifiable... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 538 pages
...nightfall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of foxhunters ; and the boldest of their country neighbours had no reason to despise either their horsemanship or their courage.1 The Manchester trade was carried on in the same way. The... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 pages
...pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of foxhunters ; EARLY MODES OF CONVEYANCE. CHAP. II. and the boldest of their country neighbours had no reason to despise either their horsemanship or their courage.* The Manchester trade was carried on in the same way. The... | |
 | Tom Bradley - Coaching (Transportation) - 1889 - 278 pages
...after nightfall these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of the foxchase, and the boldest of their country neighbours...broken causeways certainly presented a field of action not less perilous than hedges and five-barred gates." We now come to an event in the history of Leeds... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...night-fall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of a fox chase, and the boldest of their country neighbours had no...reason to despise their horsemanship or their courage." There is the evidence, also, of Henry Homer, author of " An Enquiry into the Means of Preserving Publick... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...night-fall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of a fox chase, and the boldest of their country neighbours had no reason to despise their horsemanship or theu: courage." There is the evidence, also, of Henry Homer, author of " An Enquiry into the Means... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - English literature - 1920 - 486 pages
...lesson in roadmaking from it ' (Sykes, Huddersfield and its Vicinity, p. 262). 3 Young, op. cit.^ ii. 113. and the agricultural areas haulage was done largely...Ibid., i. 163, and Marshall, op. cit., i. 260 et seq. * One inn at Huddersfield had accommodation for 1oo horses (Sykes, p. 247). 3 Whitaker, op. cit., p.... | |
 | W. Turrentine Jackman - Business & Economics - 1962 - 870 pages
...horseback before daybreak, and long after nightfall these hardy sons of trade pursued their object. . . Sloughs, darkness, and broken causeways certainly...no less perilous than hedges and five-barred gates ; ... In the state of the roads at that time, swiftness was impossible." Then, on the following page,... | |
 | William T. Jackman - Business & Economics - 1962 - 870 pages
...horseback before daybreak, and long after nightfall these .hardy sons of trade pursued their object. . . Sloughs, darkness, and broken causeways certainly...no less perilous than hedges and five-barred gates ; ... In the state of the roads at that time, swiftness was impossible." Then, on the following page,... | |
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... perilous. In winter, during which season the employment of the working manufacturer was intermitted, the distant markets never ceased to be frequented. On horse-back before day-break, and long after night-fall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their... 