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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. "
The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer - Стр. 529
авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 486
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The Quarterly Review, Том 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 - Страниц: 556
...scattered 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...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, Том 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 - 1825 - Страниц: 582
...scattered 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...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, Том 13

1844 - Страниц: 888
...These gross exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich 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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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - Страниц: 812
...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...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, Том 1

Samuel Shaen - 1847 - Страниц: 122
...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." Then to shew what might reasonably...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Объемы 7-8

1847 - Страниц: 862
...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 Monthly railway record, ed. by J. Robertson and J.W. Brooke

Страниц: 608
...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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Railway Management, &c

1848 - Страниц: 382
...it has proceeded, it may produce on earth peace and good will towards men." — Published Dec. 1848. soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves...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....
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The Journal of Health and Disease, Том 3

1848 - Страниц: 788
...of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. ' We should as soon,' adds the reviewer, ' expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.'" Would it not be well for those who predict the disappearance of homoeopathy and its infinitesimal doses...
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The Univercœlum and Spiritual Philosopher, Том 3,Выпуски 1-26

1848 - Страниц: 424
...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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