It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles... The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer - Стр. 221авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 557Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William T. Jackman - 1916 - Страниц: 380
...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculisi will be realized, and that we shall see them travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen,...an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense1." But people did not have to... | |
| Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - 1925 - Страниц: 330
...expectations or other professions of the enthusiastic specialist will be realized, and that we shall see them travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen...an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvements than the promulgation of such nonsense, "f The Stockton and Darlington... | |
| Stockton-on-Tees Railway Centenary Committee - 1925 - Страниц: 112
...Stephenson's Killingworth friend and adviser, that for anyone to contemplate travelling on a railway at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen or twenty miles an hour was a ridiculous expectation, nonsense that would prove most harmful to die project, we can understand... | |
| Ernest Hanbury Hankin - 1928 - Страниц: 324
...to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." About this time the Quarterly Review published an able article on the projected -Liverpool and Manchester... | |
| W. Turrentine Jackman - 1962 - Страниц: 870
...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realized, and that we shall see them travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen,...an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense1." But people did not have to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - Страниц: 572
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than... | |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1924 - Страниц: 786
...my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations of the enthusiastic specialist will be realised and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 and 20 miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and employment... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 2001 - Страниц: 240
...to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." * Among the papers left by Mr. Sandars we find a letter addressed to him by Sir John Barrow of the... | |
| Christopher McGowan - 2004 - Страниц: 410
...wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations ... of the enthusiastic specialist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate oí twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption... | |
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