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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Page 104
... reason , had better be painted black , or of the same colour as the Body . The Key - hole of the Lock on the Carriage Door is sometimes of Brass , or Plated , and covered with a Plate ; but it is much neater to have it Black : -as we ...
... reason , had better be painted black , or of the same colour as the Body . The Key - hole of the Lock on the Carriage Door is sometimes of Brass , or Plated , and covered with a Plate ; but it is much neater to have it Black : -as we ...
Page 105
... reason , we recommend the Accommodation Han- dles , if any are fixed , ( the Body looks infinitely more elegant without ) , to be Black . Those Buckles , & c . are best formed for wear that have fewest sharp edges ; -Round moulded ...
... reason , we recommend the Accommodation Han- dles , if any are fixed , ( the Body looks infinitely more elegant without ) , to be Black . Those Buckles , & c . are best formed for wear that have fewest sharp edges ; -Round moulded ...
Page 110
... reason for this universal prejudice . The reason that seems to have given rise to this opinion , is , that carriages whose fore and hind wheels are near each other , extricate themselves more readily from ruts , change quarter more ...
... reason for this universal prejudice . The reason that seems to have given rise to this opinion , is , that carriages whose fore and hind wheels are near each other , extricate themselves more readily from ruts , change quarter more ...
Page 147
... reason why you do so , to any per- son who may apply for his Character . Desire him , Five minutes before he brings the Carriage round , to open the Windows and ven- tilate it even in Winter , Cold Air is not so offensive as Confined ...
... reason why you do so , to any per- son who may apply for his Character . Desire him , Five minutes before he brings the Carriage round , to open the Windows and ven- tilate it even in Winter , Cold Air is not so offensive as Confined ...
Page 181
... Reason given for excluding the People from the Park , is , that the Trees are so young that they might be easily ... reasons which appear to them to be good and sufficient ; perhaps they think that it is most profitably , if not most ...
... Reason given for excluding the People from the Park , is , that the Trees are so young that they might be easily ... reasons which appear to them to be good and sufficient ; perhaps they think that it is most profitably , if not most ...
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Annum Axle-tree Axles baize belly bands Body Bolts Bran Carriage Carts charge Chariot clean Cloth Coach Box Cold Collinge's Colour comfortable convenient cost Crowded Crowded Streets Desire your Coachman Ditto Dogs Door drachm Dressing drive Estimate Expense extremely feet felleys fixed Four frequently give Glass Hackney Coach Hackneyman half Hard water Harness hire Horse's Hostler hour House inches injured Iron keep Lamps Landaulett Legs less Livery London Long Acre Malaga Wine miles minutes Morning never Night o'clock Oats painted Pair of Horses Pannels Perch person pounds purchase Regent's Park Repair require riage ride Road Rotten Stone round Seat seldom Servant shew Shoe side Springs Stable Street Sweet Oil tell thing Tottenham Court Road Town Travelling tremely Truss turn Varnish wear Week Wet Weather Wheels wish
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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.