The complete motorist, being an account of the evolution and construction of the modern motor-car; with notes on the selection, use, and maintenance of the same; and on the pleasures of travel upon the public roads (1905)
Young, Filson, 1876-1938 · New York : McClure, Phillips & co.; London, Methuen & co. · leaf 450
mingham, orbeing soiled by the dust of the Black Country. For even whenit was at Stony Stratford, it was the Holyhead Road, the roadto Ireland. In its most dallying moments, looping round somepretty tree-clad hill or dipping into a valley sweet with shelteredflowers, it still meant to arrive; the… … THE OPEN ROAD 325 paradox. Nevertheless it is one of the simple truths whichaccuracy is most apt to miss. In all our talk of roads thismovement is taken for granted ; all our verbs are active. Theroad comes from this place ; it leads to that; it is a fast roador a slow road ; it climbs hills, drops…
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