| John Francis Maguire - 1858 - Страниц: 500
...concession, have sold it — and thus the project has been handed from one set of speculators to lous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches 1 We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 604
...with twice the velocity and with greater safety than ordinary coaches, the reviewer proceeded: — "What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...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... | |
| 1858 - Страниц: 836
...were mortified who saw, and would fain have denied him, his triumph :— " What [said the Reviewer] can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the...We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upou one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - Страниц: 588
...palpably absurd and ridiculous than tbo prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast м stage coaches. 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1860 - Страниц: 788
...What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospects held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fireJ olf upon one of Uougreve's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at... | |
| 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... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 558
...Manchester Railway, — while admitting its absolute 200 ARTICLE IN THE ' QUARTERLY.' CHAP. X. •necessity, and insisting that there was no choice left but a...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
...been pronounced but small. 200 CHAP. X. •necessity, and insisting that there was no choice left bnt a railroad, on which the journey between Liverpool...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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