 It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no danger of being seasick while on shore ; that they are not to be scalded...  The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer - Стр. 503авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1857Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - Страниц: 556
...a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, Or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - Страниц: 582
...a steam-bout, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | Страниц: 608
...a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being humcd or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles nn hour, by means of a high-pressure engine, to he told that they arc in no danger of... | |
 | 1903 - Страниц: 666
...a steamboat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' .It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | John Francis - 1851 - Страниц: 642
...the steamcarriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. * * * It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of the high -pressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - Страниц: 776
...infernal machines." And, credite posteri! here behold the prophetic words of the " Quarterly," in 1825 : " It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour, by means of the high-pressure engine, to be told that they are in no danger... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 632
...Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." One of the original grounds of opposition to railways,...opinion upon the danger of railway travelling :— It is curious, occasionally, to contrast prediction and event. The last return of the Government Railway... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - Страниц: 576
...years ; a progress unexampled in commereial annals, except in association with railway intereourse. One of the original grounds of opposition to railways...consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour, by means of a high-pressure engine, to be told that there is no danger of being... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - Страниц: 352
...plainly, the steam-carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of the highpressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 594
...the steam-carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. . . It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or .twenty miles an hour, by means of the highpressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
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