The Annals Of Bristol In The Eighteenth Century Classic Reprint

Author : John Latimer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265418277
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by John Latimer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century The government of the city was conducted on the same narrow-minded principles. Many men of capital, paying large rentals, employing many workmen, and being in every sense entitled to rank as leading citizens, were not freemen according to corporate technology they had consequently no votes at parliamentary elections, and their influence in local government could not have been less if they had been Hotten tots. Having wrested their birthright from the inhabitants, the Corporation, self-elected, and repudiating all control, spent a large proportion of the city revenues in the maintenance of ostentatious state, and in luxurious entertainments to the select circle which found favour in its sight. On the other hand, the duties of civic government were for the most part either evaded or loftily ignored. The paving, lighting, and watching of the city were miserably imperfect. The foot ways, where they existed, were so narrow that, even a quarter of a century later, the newspapers occasionally congratulated their readers when a week passed away without an accident to pedestrians. These casualties were largely due to what a writer in the Monthly Magazine for May, 17 99, termed the barbarous custom of using sledges in the public streets for the conveyance of goods, which appears to have been almost universal. The drivers in descending a slope dragged their sledges against the edge of the pavement; and, as the packages overhung the vehicles, the peril of foot-passengers may be imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.