| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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