| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...between London and Oxford in two days. The passengers slept at Beaconsfield. At length, in the spring of 1669, a great and daring innovation was attempted....undertaking was solemnly considered and sanctioned by the Heads of the University, and appears to have excited the same sort of interest which is excited... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...London and Oxford in two days. The passengers slept at Beaconsfield. At length, in the spring of 1689, a great and daring innovation was attempted. It was...This spirited undertaking was solemnly considered and sanc* f.nitlis and Elmele. Marshall's Rural Economy of England. In 1739 Roderic Random came from Scotland... | |
| 1849 - 296 pages
...and daring innovation was attempted. It was announeed that a vehieie, deseribed as the Flying Coaeh, would perform the whole journey between sunrise and sunset. This spirited undertaking was solemnly eonsidered and sanetioned by the Heads of the University, and appears to have exeited the same sort... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...and daring innovation was attempted. It was announeed that a vehiele, deseribed as the Flying Coaeh, would perform the whole journey between sunrise and sunset. This spirited undertaking was solemnly eonsidered and sanetioned by the Heads of the University, and appears to have exeited the same sort... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...between London and Oxford in two days. The passengers slept at Beaconsfield. At length, in the spring of 1669, a great and daring innovation was attempted....and Elmete. Marshall's Rural Economy of England. In 1139 Roderic Random came from Scotland to Ifewcastle on a packhorse. f Cotton's Epistle to ,1. Bradshaw.... | |
| Benjamin Scott (Chamberlain of the City of London.) - Locomotion - 1854 - 92 pages
...their astonishment was unbounded when, in the spring of 1669, it was announced that a vehicle, styled ' The Flying Coach,' would perform the whole journey between sunrise and sunset! We find, from the "Diary of a Yorkshire clergyman," that in 1582 a journey from Nottingham to London... | |
| Benjamin Scott - 1854 - 92 pages
...their astonishment was unbounded when, in the spring of 1669, it was announced that a vehicle, styled ' The Flying Coach,' would perform the whole journey between sunrise and sunset! We find, from the "Diary of a Yorkshire clergyman," that in 1582 a journey from Nottingham to London... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...between London and Oxford in two days. The passengers slept at Beaconsfield. At length, in the spring of 1669, a great and daring innovation was attempted. It was announced that a vehicle, de. scribed as the Flying Coach, would perform the whole journey between sunrise and sunset. This spirited... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1861 - 1052 pages
...London and Oxford in two days. The passengers slept at Beaconsfield. At length, in the spring of 1CU9, a great and daring innovation was attempted. It was...undertaking was solemnly considered and sanctioned by the heads of the University, and appears to have excited the same sort of interest which is excited... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...commenced to run between London and Oxford. It performed the journey in two days. At length, in 1669, it was announced that a vehicle, described as " The Flying Coach," would perform the journey between sunrise and sunset. This spirited undertaking was solemnly considered and sanctioned... | |
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