The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II : Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle : Rules for Purchasing and Keeping Or Jobbing Horses and Carriages; Estimates of Expenses Occasioned Thereby; and an Easy Plan for Ascertaining Every Hackney-coach Fare, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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... Pair of the best Strong Gig Wheels , with Ash felleys and patent hoop tires , about £ 7 . Wheels , at first , want only new Shoeing , or turning the Tire , as they wear upon one edge principally this is done for about 20s . or 25s ...
... Pair of the best Strong Gig Wheels , with Ash felleys and patent hoop tires , about £ 7 . Wheels , at first , want only new Shoeing , or turning the Tire , as they wear upon one edge principally this is done for about 20s . or 25s ...
Page 17
... Pair of Gig Wheels with Patent hoop - tire , costs about £ 2 . 10s . MEM . - When going to Drive , not only in- quire , but give a look yourself at the Wheels , & c . before you set off - trust this to no one-- make sure that the Bridle ...
... Pair of Gig Wheels with Patent hoop - tire , costs about £ 2 . 10s . MEM . - When going to Drive , not only in- quire , but give a look yourself at the Wheels , & c . before you set off - trust this to no one-- make sure that the Bridle ...
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... pair of Shafts made to fit on , and so use it with only one Horse -- which will do all the work required by many infirm persons , almost as easily as Two : - we wonder that more Chariots are not so constructed . The preceding ...
... pair of Shafts made to fit on , and so use it with only one Horse -- which will do all the work required by many infirm persons , almost as easily as Two : - we wonder that more Chariots are not so constructed . The preceding ...
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... Pair of Horses are hired for a Year , and they are given up at any time within that period , it is customary to give a couple of months ' notice , or a couple of months ' money . Have a written agreement about this . The following is my ...
... Pair of Horses are hired for a Year , and they are given up at any time within that period , it is customary to give a couple of months ' notice , or a couple of months ' money . Have a written agreement about this . The following is my ...
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... Pair , to twice £ 80 . a piece . If you keep Horses for useful purposes , you must not be too nice about either their Colour , or the condition of their Coats . The ordinary Town Carriage Work can be done just as well by a Pair of ...
... Pair , to twice £ 80 . a piece . If you keep Horses for useful purposes , you must not be too nice about either their Colour , or the condition of their Coats . The ordinary Town Carriage Work can be done just as well by a Pair of ...
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Page 26 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
Page 148 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 26 - Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy...
Page 307 - Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call, But Coach! Coach! Coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
Page 297 - 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 of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the waterside.
Page 225 - Boccarorra (meaning the white man) make de black man workee, make de horse workee, make de ox workee, make ebery ting workee ; only de hog. He de hog, no workee ; he eat, he drink, he walk about, he go to sleep When he please, he libb like a gentleman.
Page 297 - omit to mention any new thing that comes up amongst us, though never so trivial. Here is one Captain Baily : he hath been a sea captain, but now lives on the land about this city, where he tries experiments. He hath erected, according to his ability, some four hackney coaches, put his men in livery, and appointed them to stand at the Maypole, in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had.
Page 279 - ... in each of thefe holes a fcrew is to be made ; the fteel points are likewife to have a fcrew on them, exactly fitted to that in the (hoes.
Page 226 - ... sense of honour. As to the first of these orders of men, I have not one word more to say of them: as to the latter, I shall conclude all I have more to offer against them, with respect to their being prompted by the fear of shame, by applying to the duellist what I think Dr. South says somewhere of the liar, " He is a coward to man, and a bravo to God.