The Road Goes on: A Literary and Historical Account of the Highways, Byways, and Bridges of Great BritainEpworth Press, 1946 - 236 páginas |
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... never care to move a finger in the day of connivance , and when their stupidity or laziness tries to do any- thing , ' tis all labour thrown away . They know not how to lay a foundation , nor make the proper slopes and drains ; they ...
... never care to move a finger in the day of connivance , and when their stupidity or laziness tries to do any- thing , ' tis all labour thrown away . They know not how to lay a foundation , nor make the proper slopes and drains ; they ...
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... never use large stones on the bottom of a road ; I would not put a large stone in any part of it . ' Telford was equally emphatic in favour of having a founda- tion of large stones for his roads . He summarizes his views in a letter to ...
... never use large stones on the bottom of a road ; I would not put a large stone in any part of it . ' Telford was equally emphatic in favour of having a founda- tion of large stones for his roads . He summarizes his views in a letter to ...
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... never should have forgiven that offence , had not their removal , by opening a beauti- ful view from the village up the hill , reconciled even my tree- loving eye to their abstraction . And , to say the truth , though we have had twenty ...
... never should have forgiven that offence , had not their removal , by opening a beauti- ful view from the village up the hill , reconciled even my tree- loving eye to their abstraction . And , to say the truth , though we have had twenty ...
Contenido
CINIV | 7 |
THE ROMAN ROADS IN BRITAIN | 21 |
ROADS IN THE MIDDLE AGES | 40 |
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