 | Henry Alexander Glass - 1864 - Страниц: 134
...getting from Liverpool to Manchester in the day. In reference to a projected "Woolwich line, it said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - Страниц: 936
...than the promulgation of such nonsense." Or let us quote the Quarterly Revieiv, which exclaimed — "What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous,...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - Страниц: 584
...improvement than ' the [promulgation of such nonsense.' And The Quarterly Revieio exclaimed : — ' What can be more palpably absurd and ' ridiculous...held out of locomotives travelling ' twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We should as soon expect the ' people of Woolwich to surfer themselves to be fired... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1870 - Страниц: 746
...The Quarterly Review, in an article published at the time, spoke in these terms of the whole project. Adverting to a project for forming a railway to Woolwich,...locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - Страниц: 642
...whispered as to his sanity. A reviewer in the Quarterly stated that nothing could be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches, and that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - Страниц: 518
...was, however, in favor of the construction of the road and of the use of the locomotive upon it : " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suifer... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - Страниц: 570
...whispered as to his sanity. A reviewer in the Quarterly stated that nothing could be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches, and that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve'a ricochet rockets... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - Страниц: 464
...support of the projected Liverpool and Manchester Railway, — while admitting its absolute necessity, and insisting that there was no choice left but a...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - Страниц: 464
...engines, moving with twice the velocity of ordinary coaches, the reviewer observed : — " What can bo more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo 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. 
