Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is dangerous stirring out almost by day. Lady Hertford was attacked on Hounslow Heath at three in the afternoon. Dr. Eliot was shot at three days ago, without having resisted ; and the day before yesterday,... Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick - Page 59by David Garrick - 1907 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1843 - 492 pages
...Isleworth in the ferry-boat by the violence of the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...Prime Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 432 pages
...Isleworth in the ferry-boat by the violenceof the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...Prime Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 434 pages
...by the violenceof the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infesied by highwaymen, that it is dangerous stirring out almost...Prime Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 566 pages
...Isleworth in the ferryboat by the violence of the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...Prime Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...Isleworth in the ferryboat by the violence of the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...Prime Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
| James Thorne - England - 1876 - 450 pages
...almost incredible. To be stopped in crossing Hounslow Heath was regarded as almost a matter of course. "Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it...Prime Minister, Lord North; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters that are not in India have taken to... | |
| James Thorne - England - 1876 - 426 pages
...highwaymen, that it is dangerous stirring out almost by" day. Lady Hertford was attacked on Hounslow Heath ;u three in the afternoon. Dr. Eliot was shot at three...and the day before yesterday we were near losing our Priiiie Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postilion, and "wounded the latter. In short,... | |
| James Thorne - England - 1876 - 564 pages
...th.it it is dangerous stirring out alinoet by day. Laii) Hertford was attacked on Hounslow Heath :.i three in the afternoon. Dr. Eliot was shot at three days ago, without having resisted ; and tl:e day before yesterday we were near losing опт Prune Minister, Lord North ; the robbers shot... | |
| Horace Walpole - English letters - 1890 - 362 pages
...Isleworth in the ferryboat by the violence of the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...day before yesterday we were near losing our Prime Minster, Lord North ; the robbers shot at the postillion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the... | |
| Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1891 - 576 pages
...Isleworth in the ferryboat by the violence of the current, and had great difficulty to get to shore. Our roads are so infested by highwaymen, that it is...Prime Minister, Lord North; the robbers shot at the postilion, and wounded the latter. In short, all the freebooters, that are not in India, have taken... | |
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