 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 páginas
...400 miles a day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.... | |
 | 1847 - 862 páginas
...sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should ns soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1849 - 152 páginas
...ridiculous in which a prospect is held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as stage coaches, We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon QUARTERLY REVIEW (No. 167) of 1848. " Waggons of coal and heavy luggage, now-a-days, fly across Leicestershire... | |
 | 432 páginas
...Even as lats as 1825, the Quarterly Review, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Hallway, said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice ot fast as stage coaches 1 We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to I -n ili r themselves... | |
 | 1903 - 666 páginas
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired oft' upon one of Congreve's ricochft rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 páginas
...as 1825, the Quarterly Reeiew, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can he more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice a» fatt as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to... | |
 | 1850 - 156 páginas
...the scheme in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back Old... | |
 | Samuel Salt - 1850 - 260 páginas
...can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the following paragraph,"— in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches. "We should as soon," adds the reviewer, "expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired oif upon one of... | |
 | John Francis - 1851 - 642 páginas
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking, of a wheel. But with all these assurances we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at... | |
 | 1851 - 748 páginas
...the locomotive engine may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired upon by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going... | |
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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. 
