| Richard Pike - 1884 - Страниц: 318
...not mind being struck by the flying off or breaking of a wheel What can be more palpably absurd or ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ! "Wo should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of... | |
| James Howard Bridge - 1886 - Страниц: 198
...writing in the Quarterly Review for March 25, 1825, on a projected railway near London, exclaims : " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...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... | |
| James Burnley - 1886 - Страниц: 420
...publication like the Quarterly Review, when the Woolwich line was projected, scornfully asked, " What could be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? " adding, " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to... | |
| Harry A. Lewis - 1887 - Страниц: 534
...from an article which appeared in the Quarterly Review for March, 1825. Among other things it said : "What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as horses. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one... | |
| Daniel T. Taylor - 1888 - Страниц: 176
...projects that interfere with useful establishments ; we scout the idea of a railroad as impracticable. What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer... | |
| Daniel Thompson Taylor - 1888 - Страниц: 176
...projects that interfere with useful establishments ; we scout the idea of a railroad as impracticable. What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1889 - Страниц: 472
...moving with twice the velocity and with greater safety than ordinary coaches, the reviewer proceeded : " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...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... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1893 - Страниц: 732
...construction of railways, but remarking in reference to a proposed line between London and Woolwich : " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as s/<?<r coaches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo fired off... | |
| John Pendleton - 1894 - Страниц: 616
...But the struggle was altogether unequal. The Quarterly Review incredulously exclaimed : " What could be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect...locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? " But locomotives soon ran thrice as fast ; and by-and-by many a road was deserted — there was... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1896 - Страниц: 780
...construction of railways, but remarking in reference to a proposed line between London and Woolwich : " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage conches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon... | |
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