 | Joseph Gregory Martin - Banks and banking - 1871 - 116 pages
...our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest...the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 758 pages
...our natural and experimental philosophers to get up a project of a railroad from Boston to Albany, a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest...market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts." The next effort in railroad construction was in 1830 when thirteen miles of road from Baltimore to... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1881 - 808 pages
...natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany, — a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest...Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 532 pages
...was first talked of, the " Boston Courier " derided the scheme, saying that it could be built only at an " expense little less than the market value...Massachusetts, and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet the work went on,... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Railroads - 1884 - 312 pages
...our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany, a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest...territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, * Among the curious thinga in this funny report is one of the reasons given why a railroad was needed:... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1883 - 754 pages
...natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany, — a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest...Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did... | |
 | Joseph Gregory Martin - Banks and banking - 1886 - 184 pages
...our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impractirable, but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts,... | |
 | Joel Cook - New England - 1889 - 302 pages
...A leading Boston newspaper of that day, the Courier, said it could only be built at" an expense of little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston... | |
 | Joel Cook - New England - 1889 - 302 pages
...A leading Boston newspaper of that day, the Courier, said it could only be built at " an expense of little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Boston (Mass.) - 1889 - 538 pages
...progress. It was ridiculed, one very sensible editor writing that it was impracticable, the cost being "little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts," and of as little use when completed as " a railroad from Boston to the * The State found that it had expended... | |
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... project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable, but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which,... 
