OLD-WORLD NOTIONS
lii the year 1762, when there were only six stage coaches throughout the kingdom, a person named Jfthn Crosset, of the Charterhouse, London, took alarm and wrote a pamphlet demanding the suppression of these conveyances, on the ground that they would inflict a serious injury on society. Some of his reasons are both amusing and curious. "These coaches," saya he, "make gentlemen to come to London upon very small occasion which otherwise they would not do but upon urgent necessity —nay, the convoniency of the passage makes their wives often come up, who, rather than come such long journeys on horseback, would stay at home. Here, when they come to town, they must be in the mode, get fine clothes, go to plays and treats, and by these means get such a habit of idleness and love of pleasure that they are unoasy_ ever after."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 19
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147OLD-WORLD NOTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 19
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