 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...shall be." A GUIDE TO EQUESTRIANS. The la\tf of the roads is a paradox quite, For in orderly riding along, If you go to the left you are sure to go right, But if you go right you go wrong. THE THOROUGHFARE. " My head, Tom, 's confused with your nonsense... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 462 pages
...contrary to the old English stanza of, " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, As the carriages jog it along : If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, But, if you go right, you go wrong." There is one recommendation, however, to the " drivers," that... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...contrary to the old English stanza of, " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, As the carriages jog it along : If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, But, if you go right, you go wrong." There is one recommendation, however, to the "drivers," that they... | |
 | Donald Walker - Athletics - 1835 - 444 pages
...These terms were afterwards applied to the road, where, in meeting carriages, according to the adage, " If you go to the left, you are sure to go right; — if you go to the right, you are wrong." Wheel-horses have the hardest place, as they are at work up hill and down. Nevertheless,... | |
 | Donald Walker - 1840 - 418 pages
...These terms were afterwards applied to the road, where, in meeting carriages, according to the adage, "If you go to the left, you are sure to go right; — if you go to the right you are wrong." Wheel-horses have the hardest place, as they are at work up hill and down. Nevertheless,... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1841 - 446 pages
...own side. Still — " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, I confess I have thought it so long; If you go to the left, you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you are wrong." P. Speaking to coach-horses on the box is quite out of fashion. C. Coachmen, forty years... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps - 1853 - 372 pages
...good driving 'sa paradox quite, Though custom has prov'd it so long ; If you go to the left, you're sure to go right, If you go to the right, you go wrong. OVII. FRIDAY night's dream On the Saturday told, Is sure to come true, Be it never so old. CVIII. WHEN... | |
 | Donald Walker - Athletics - 1856 - 438 pages
...These terms were Afterwards applied to the road, where, in meeting carriages, according to the adage, " If you go to the left, you are sure to go right; — if you go to the right you are wrong." Wheel-horses have the hardest place, as they are at work up hill and down. Nevertheless,... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Cuba - 1857 - 506 pages
...paradox, though here reversed, — " The law of the road is a paradox quite, For in orderly riding along, If you go to the left, you are sure to go right; If you go to the right, you go wrong." The usual dinner-hour at New York, as is general in the cities of America, is three o'clock. Almost... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - Drawing - 1858 - 82 pages
...£0od driving's a paradox quite, Though custom has proved it so long ; If you go to the left, you're sure to go right, If you go to the right, you go wrong. rPWELVE huntsmen with horns and hounds, Hunting over other men's grounds ; Eleven ships sailing o'er... | |
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The rule of the road is a paradox quite : When you meet those who travel along, If you go to the left, you are sure to go right... 
