 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.  Notes and Queries - Pàgina 1341903Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pàgines
...soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." Evil forebodings were multiplied with railway schemes. The smoke of the locomotive, it was said, as... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 pàgines
...said the writer, that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off like a Congreve rocket, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate — the rate of eighteen miles an hour, which people now-a-days, accustomed to dash along in express... | |
 | William Galt - 1865 - 462 pàgines
...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 ; their property, periinps, they may trust; but while one of die finest navigable rivers iu the world runs parallel to... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pàgines
...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 off at such a rate." Nor was this folly confined to these few. An eminent parliamentary lawyer affirmed... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pàgines
...should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads in India. The natives, with their... | |
 | Anonymous - 1868 - 602 pàgines
...'wishould expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads in India. The natives, with their... | |
 | 1868 - 600 pàgines
...should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Vol. 125.— No. 249. F. Scarcely Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 530 pàgines
...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. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 584 pàgines
...Woolwich to surfer themselves to be fired off upon ' one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust ourselves to the ' mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' A few short years, and all was changed. Opposition was silenced, perseverance was rewarded, and the... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1870 - 746 pàgines
...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." That was written in the year 1830, and then ho goes on to say, "We will back old Father Thames against... | |
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