 | Edward Topham - 1791 - 140 pages
...travelled on horfeback. To fee him fetting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...next Attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the feweft. Then, ftopping under any hedge where grafs prefented itfelf for... | |
 | Edward Topham - Legislators - 1791 - 144 pages
...travelled on horfebaek. To fee him fetting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the feweft. Then, flopping under any hedge where grafs prefented itfelf for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 544 pages
...travelkd on horfeback. To fee him letting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the fevveft. Then, flopping under any hedga where grafs prefented itfelf... | |
 | History - 1793 - 542 pages
...travelled on horfeback. To fee him fetting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the feweft. Then, flopping under any hedge where grafs prefcntcd itfelf for... | |
 | Horse racing - 1793 - 470 pages
...fage 41.) MR. El wes generally travelled on horfeback. His firft care was to put two or three eg^s boiled hard, into his great coat pocket| or any fcraps of bread he could find. Baggage he never took ; then, mounting one of his hunters, his next attention was to... | |
 | G.W. Johnson - Biography - 1795 - 418 pages
...ufually travelled on horfeback; and it was curious to fee him fetting out on a journey : his fir't care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any fcraps of bread which he found ; baggage he never took ; then, mounting one... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 424 pages
...travelled on horfeback. To fee him fetting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any fcraps of bread which he found; baggage he never took: then mounting one... | |
 | Edward TOPHAM (Major.) - 1802 - 38 pages
...always travelled on hotteback. To fee him fetting out on a journey was a matter truly curious. His firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...found — baggage he never took — then mounting ene of his hunters, his next attention was to get out of London into that road where the turnpikes... | |
 | William Granger - Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 688 pages
...travelling was on horfebaclc. To fee him fetting out on a journey, was a matter truly curioQs ; his firft care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into...next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the feweft. Then, (lopping under any hedge where grafs prefented itfelf for... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...— his first care was to put two or three tggs boiled hard, into his greatcoat pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found — baggage he never took,...next attention was to get out of London into that road where the turnpikes were the fewest. Then stopping under any bcdgc where grass presented itself... | |
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To see him setting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious: his first care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found; baggage he never took; then, mounting one of his hunters, his... 
