 | English literature - 1868 - 602 pages
...was remarked, that ' we should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust, themselves...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads in India. The natives, with their... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...of those concerned 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...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." In that year, the common belief was that railways were altogether delusions and impositions. The Liverpool... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' 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." In this same year the Liverpool... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - Clocks and watches, Electric - 1847 - 192 pages
...readers that the people of Woolwich “would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour!)” And the reviewer... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 106 pages
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour!) " And the reviewer... | |
 | 608 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon míe iif Счндгске'я ricochet rochets, as tru.it themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rute; their property, perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the... | |
 | Railroads - 1848 - 382 pages
...that the wonderful discovery which soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate as 18 or 20 miles an hour. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum.... | |
 | Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1848 - 406 pages
...should as soon," adds the reviewer, " expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." Valuable papers have been contributed by Mr. Laing, Mr. Porter, Mr. Graham, and others, analysing the... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...as 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...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,... | |
 | 432 pages
...as stage coaches 1 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...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,... | |
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off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to 
