 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...English, the steam carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification 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 themselves to the mercy of such a machine,... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...400 miles a day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Railroads - 1849 - 152 pages
...can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous in which a prospect is held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer ¿emselves to be fired off upon QUARTERLY REvIEw(No. 167) of 1848. “Waggons of coal and heavy luggage,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...Even as late as 1825, the Quarterly Review, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice a» fati as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer... | |
 | 432 pages
...Even as late as 1825, the Quarterly Review, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice at feat as stage coaches 1 We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired oft' upon one of Congreve's ricochft rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1903 - 840 pages
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, 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,... | |
 | History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...an hour, on a railway then in contemplation 109 between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds—"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 a machine going... | |
 | Children's literature - 1849 - 290 pages
...hour, on a railway then in contemplation E* «a i between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds—"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'a machine going... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...palpably absurd and ridiculous than the scheme in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon...the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going... | |
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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 themselves to be 
