 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...coaches with chalk, and No. 45 on every door; which extends a vast way along the roads into the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that...continued here and there quite to Winchester, which is 64 miles. To MR. Ross, PHILADELPHIA. Disorders on the American Frontiers. — State of the Capital... | |
 | Books - 1817 - 576 pages
...with chalk, and No. 45. on every door ; which extends a vast way along the roads into the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that...fifteen miles out of town, there was scarce a door or window-shutter next the road unmarked ; and this continued here and there quite to Winchester, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...coaches with chalk, and No. 45 on every door ; which extends a vast way along the roads in the country. I went' last week to Winchester, and observed that...road unmarked ; and this continued here and there quitift to Winchester, which is 64 miles. !'»l ' .... , ..... ' .. . •n. .:. . -»l'lif III •... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...coaches with chalk, and No. 45 on every door ; which extends a vast way along the roads into the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that for fifteen miles out of town, there was scarcely a door or window-shutter next the road unmarked ; and this continued here and there quite... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1833 - 490 pages
...coaches with chalk, and No. 45 on every door ; which extends a vast way along the roads in the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that...continued here and there quite to Winchester, which is 04 miles. * * * • * B. FRANKLIN. TO MR. ROSS, PHILADELPHIA. DEAR SIR, London, May 14, 1768. I am... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...coaches with chalk, and No. 45 on every door: which extends a vast way along the roads into the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that...there quite to Winchester, which is sixty-four miles. R FRANKLIN." " Mr. Ro>s, Philadelphia. " LONDON, May 14, 1768. "DEAR SIR, — I received your favour... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...most humble servant, B. FRANKLIN. TO WILLIAM FRANKLIN. Elections to the new Parliament. — Wllkes and the Middlesex Election. — Riots, Mobs, and Illuminations...FRANKLIN. TO JOHN ROSS. Riots and Confusion in London. — fVilkes and Liberty. — Bishop of the English Church in America. London, 14 May, 1768. DEAR SIR,... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1842 - 310 pages
...Winchester, and observed that for fifteen miles out of town there was scarce a door or window-shutter next the road unmarked : and this continued here and...there quite to Winchester, which is sixty-four miles. * *•**•* Even this capital, the residence of the king, is now a daily scene of lawless riot and... | |
 | George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1847 - 424 pages
...(the famous No. of the ' North Britain,'} which extend a vast way along the roads into the country. I went last week to Winchester, and observed that for fifteen miles out of town there was scarcely a door or window-shutter next the road unmarked, arid this continued here and there quite... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...excitement was by no means confined to the metropolis. Franklin writes to his son, April 16. 1768 : "I went last week to Winchester, and observed that...a door or " window -shutter next the road unmarked (with 'Wilkes and " 'Liberty' and ' Number 45.'), and this continued here and " there quite to Winchester,... | |
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Wilkes and liberty, marking the same words on all their coaches with chalk, and No. 45* on every door; which extends a vast way along the roads into the country. 
