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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 73
1821
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The progress of locomotion; 2 lects. on the advances made in artificial ...

Benjamin Scott - 1854 - 92 pages
...had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and performed their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the water-side. Every body is much pleased with it. For whereas before coaches could not be had...
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Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ...

John Timbs - London (England) - 1855 - 1026 pages
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way. they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side." A successful rival, however, soon appeared; when Sir Sannders Doncombe, upon a petition to Charles...
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Ten thousand wonderful things, Volume 1

Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 pages
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...water-side. * * * Everybody is much pleased with it." LIBBARY. A. singular library existed in 1535, at Warsenstein, near Cassel; the books composing it,...
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Temple Bar, Volume 33

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1871 - 588 pages
...had. Other hackney men, seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." They soon seem to have given great dissatisfaction to the Londoners, on account of the confusion introduced...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...rates to carry men into several parts of the Town, where all day they may be had. Other Hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and...there is twenty of them together, which disperse up anil down, that they and others are to be had everywhere as Watermen are to be bad by the Water * See...
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London labour and the London poor, Volume 3

Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 520 pages
...they flocked to the same place, and perform the journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there it twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are to bo had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the water-side. Everybody is much pleased with it."...
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The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and performed their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there is twenty...disperse up and down, that they and others are to be haa everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side. Everybody is much pleased with it ; for,...
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London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of ..., Volume 3

Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 480 pages
...be had. Other hackney-men, seeing this wny, t Key Hocked to the same place, and perform the journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the water-side. Everybody is much pleased with it." The site of the Maypole that once "o'erlooked...
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Once a Week, Volume 4; Volume 17

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1867 - 874 pages
...flocked to the same place, and performed their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there are twenty of them together, which disperse up and down,...are to be had everywhere as watermen are to be had at the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it; for whereas before coaches could not be had but...
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Once a Week, Volume 4; Volume 17

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1867 - 802 pages
...performed their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there are twenty of them to • gether, which disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had everywhere as watermen are to bo had at the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it ; for whereas before coaches could not be...
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