Old Roads and New Roads

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Old Roads and New Roads, by William Bodham Donne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Old Roads and New Roads Author: William Bodham Donne Release Date: December 31, 2009 [eBook #30819] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD ROADS AND NEW ROADS*** Transcribed from the 1852 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price, ccx074@pglaf.org OLD ROADS and NEW ROADS. “messer ludovico, dove avete cogliato tante coglionerie?” LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1852. p. iiprinted by john edward taylor, little queen street, lincoln’s inn fields. p. iiiPREFACE. Gentle Reader, If you look to move through this little volume in a direct line, after the present fashion of Railway Travelling, you will be signally disappointed. Nothing can well be more circuitous than the route proposed to you, nor more eccentric than your present guide. This book aspires to the precision of neither Patterson nor Bradshaw. Let men “bloody with spurring, fiery hot with speed,” consult those oracles of swiftness and rectitude of way: we do not belong to their manor. We desire to beguile, by a sort of serpentine irregularity, the occasional tedium of rapid movement.