We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. The Antiquary - Página 2011873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 530 páginas
...ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will,... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 508 páginas
...an hour (!) on a railway, then in contemplation, between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds : '' We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate." It should be remarked that this volume is written in the interests... | |
| John Timbs - 1868 - 448 páginas
...rate of 18 miles an hour, then in contemplation between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds — " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate." In two-and-twenty years afterwards, trains running at more than double... | |
| Anonymous - 1868 - 602 páginas
...was remarked, that 'wishould expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads in India. The natives, with their... | |
| Henry Allon - 1862 - 584 páginas
...travelling ' twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We should as soon expect the ' people of Woolwich to surfer themselves to be fired off upon ' one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust ourselves to the ' mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' A few short years, and all was changed.... | |
| 1868 - 602 páginas
...travel twice as quick as the mail was considered perfectly absurd, and it was remarked, that ' we should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust, themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 524 páginas
...ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be tired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine... | |
| 1868 - 600 páginas
...travel twice as quick as the mail was considered perfectly absurd, and it was remarked, that 'we should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such... | |
| 1868 - 624 páginas
...travel twice as quick as the mail was considered perfectly absurd, and it was remarked, that 4 we should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1870 - 462 páginas
...that the railway engine could go eighteen or twenty miles an hour, says : " These gross exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." l It is related that the Arve, a river of Switzerland, swollen by floods, sometimes drives the waters... | |
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