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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. "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 102
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 31

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...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 ; their property, perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the world...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 31

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...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 ; their property, perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the world...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 13

Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...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." * =* Quarterly Review, Vol. xxxi., p. 361. The illustrations of this spirit might be indefinitely extended....
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Elihu Burritt's Bond of brotherhood, Issues 134-185

Bond of brotherhood - 1861 - 798 pages
...Review), that " you might as well expect the people of England to permit themselves to he fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of a locomotive machine going at the rate of twenty miles an hour." The world knows better now; it knows...
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...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." In that year, the common belief was that railways were altogether delusions and impositions. The Liverpool...
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A Review of Railways and Railway Legislation at Home and Abroad, Volume 1

Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...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." Then to shew what might reasonably...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1847 - 854 pages
...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 ri'-.. . . . We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly...
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The Monthly railway record, ed. by J. Robertson and J.W. Brooke

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...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 7-8

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 862 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs 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.' How exceedingly absurd...
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The Univercœlum and Spiritual Philosopher, Volume 3, Issues 1-26

Parapsychology - 1848 - 424 pages
...God of Battles will yet, we trurt, crow: themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." * r Vt The poor man swayeth the settlor.s axe, Till the forests far retire ; And the city springs on...
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