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...Even as late as 1825, the Quarterly Review, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice at fatt as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - Страниц: 432
...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... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1857 - Страниц: 504
...its day, is quoted in the Life of George Stephenson, by S. Smiles : — " What (said the reviewer) can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1859 - Страниц: 326
...the whole thing, and he himself be regarded as a maniac fit for Bedlam." The Quarterly Review scouted the idea of travelling at a greater speed than eight or nine miles an hour. " To speak plain English," says the reviewer, "the iteam-carriage may delude for a time, but must end... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - Страниц: 312
...shortsightedness was exceeded by a writer in the Quarterly Review : What (said the reviewer) can be more palpably ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to su:TfT themselves to be fired-off... | |
 | Thomas Greenbury - 1860 - Страниц: 154
...Review entered the lists, and fought against him with the utmost asperity. "What," said the writer, "what can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, than the prospect held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - Страниц: 432
...shortsightedness was exceeded by a writer in the Quarterly Review : What (said the reviewer) can be more palpably ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired-off... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - Страниц: 386
...shortsightedness was exceeded by a writer in the Quarterly Review: What (said the reviewer) can be more palpably ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired-off... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 558
...performed by horses or engines, would always be accomplished " within the day," — nevertheless scouted the idea of travelling at a greater speed than eight...travelling twice as fa-st as stage - coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 792
...performed by horses or engines, would always be accomplished " within the day," — nevertheless scouted the idea of travelling at a greater speed than eight...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off... | |
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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. 
