 | Young people - 1877 - Страниц: 696
...said the writer, that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off like a Congreve rocket, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate, the rale of eighteen miles an hour. How fallible are even writers in reviews, for as our young readers... | |
 | Joseph Parsloe - 1878 - Страниц: 348
...which it was considered that twice the velocity of coaches might be attained, the same paper remarked, "We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." The opposition thus manifested had not the effect of deterring to any considerable extent the development... | |
 | Joseph Parsloe - 1878 - Страниц: 346
...which it was considered that twice the velocity of coaches might be attained, the same paper remarked, "We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." The opposition thus manifested had not the effect of deterring to any considerable extent the development... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - Страниц: 518
...the people of Woolwich to suifer 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." It was during his examination before a committee of the House of Commons, during this contest, that Stephenson,... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - Страниц: 524
...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.'' cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the - .. engine, would not that be a very awkward... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1879 - Страниц: 316
...eighteen or twenty miles an hour by means of a high pressure engine," and then contemptuously added, — " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their property perhaps they may. trust." Under the circumstances, the criticism was a perfectly reasonable... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - Страниц: 464
...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,...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 that Parliament will,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - Страниц: 464
...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 THE BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENT.... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1879 - Страниц: 304
...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 exclaimed that " the folly of seven hundred people going fifteen miles... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - Страниц: 360
...And it added that people would as soon " suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of 10 Congreve's rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." Stephenson, however, firm in his belief that passengers could travel by rail, declared that the time... | |
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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. 
