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Stornelli Italiani Di Francesco Dall'ongaro
Stornelli Italiani Di Francesco Dall'ongaro Author:William Dean Howells General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Description: A discussion of Dall'Ongaro's Stornelli italiani, Fantasie drammatiche e liriche, and Poesie. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of... more » this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Art. III. -- 1. The Railway. Remarks at Belfast. Maine, July 4, 1867. By John A. Poor. Boston. 1867. 8vo pamphlet. 2. Monthly Circulars of the National Anti-Monopoly Cheap- Freight Railway League for promoting Reform in Railroad Management, by securing Equal Rights and Cheap Transportation, with consequent increased Development of our Industrial Energies and National Resources. Nos. I. - VII. New York. 1867. 8vo pamphlet. It is related in the Sussex Archaeological Collections, that in 1703, when the king of Spain went to Petworth, his equipage was engaged for six hours in traversing the last nine miles of this journey; and that Sir Herbert Springett went to church in the family coach drawn by eight oxen, -- a stately and patriarchal mode, which arose from the necessity of having "the strong pull, the long pull, and the pull all together" of the bovine team, to which the power of horses is as naught. The excellent roads of Telford and McAdam made a great change in England before the end of the eighteenth century, for there were by that time some thirty thousand miles of highways in Great Britain on which the traveller could, if he chose to pay for such a luxury, drive at the rate of twelve to fifteen miles an hour, with perfect ease and safety. And half a century before the journey alluded to above, a primitive sort of railway was in use at the coal mines in the North of England; but it was not till the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Kailway, in 1830, that the present system of railw...« less