The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Harper, Charles George

 
9781334089305: The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old (Classic Reprint)

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Still, our ancestors saw nothing of the romance of their times. That has been left for us to discover, and that glamour in which we see their age is one afforded only by the lapse of time.

NO coaching days had their romance, more obvious perhaps to ourselves than to those who lived in the times of road-travel; but most certainly they had their own peculiar discomforts which we who are hurled at express speed in luxurious Pullman cars, or in the more exclusive and less sociable first, to our destination would never endure were railways abolished and the coaching era come again. I Should imagine that three-fourths of us would remain at home.

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Excerpt from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old

Still, our ancestors saw nothing of the romance of their times. That has been left for us to discover, and that glamour in which we see their age is one afforded only by the lapse of time.

NO coaching days had their romance, more obvious perhaps to ourselves than to those who lived in the times of road-travel; but most certainly they had their own peculiar discomforts which we who are hurled at express speed in luxurious Pullman cars, or in the more exclusive and less sociable first, to our destination would never endure were railways abolished and the coaching era come again. I Should imagine that three-fourths of us would remain at home.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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