 | Joseph Johnson - 1879 - 430 Seiten
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as tru^t themselves to a machine going at such a rate. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 Seiten
...prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches, and that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's...ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate. When examined before a parliamentary committee, Stephenson's estimate... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 Seiten
...as fast as stagecoaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets,...as trust themselves to 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1879 - 316 Seiten
...Quarterly earned for himself a lasting fame by using the expression that " We should as soon expect people to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; " — while Lord Brougham... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 Seiten
...would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Oongreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to 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 160... | |
 | Henry Frith - 1895 - 406 Seiten
...for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. We should as soon expect the people to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's...as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate — viz., twelve miles an hour ! " So said the sapient Quarterly. This was the... | |
 | 1896 - 606 Seiten
...that they are in no danger of being sea-sick when on shore ; . • . but with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. . . . We trust that Parliament will, in all the railways which it may sanction,... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1896 - 780 Seiten
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage conches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the merey of a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway... | |
 | Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1897 - 512 Seiten
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going /..t such a rate We will back old father Thames against the Woolwich l railway for any sum."... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 Seiten
...traveling twice as fast as horses ? " asked a writer in the English " Quarterly Review " for March, 1825. " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. Wre trust that... | |
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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. 
