 ... 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...  Oxford Historical and Literary Studies - Page 399publié par - 1920Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edward Parsons - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Herbert Heaton - 1920 - 498 pages
...lesson in roadmaking from it ' (Sykes, Huddtrsfield and its Vicinity, p. 262). 3 Young, op. cit.,u. 113. and the agricultural areas haulage was done largely...Ibid., i. 163, and Marshall, op. cit., i. 260 et seq. 1 One inn at Huddersfield had accommodation for 100 horses (Sykes, p. 247). 3 Whitaker, op. cit., p.... | |
 | W. Turrentine Jackman - 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 - 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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