 | 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 - 582 pagine
...exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine, or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage, may delude for a. time, but must end in the mortification...proposals of what we should call a hopeless project ? ' According to the estimate of experienced engineers, the expense of a rail-way ought to be ,£5,000... | |
 | 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 pagine
...exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine, or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification...proposals of what we should call a hopeless project ? • ' According to the estimate of experienced engineers, the expense of a rail-way ought to be £5,000... | |
 | 608 pagine
...mortification of those cinicerncd. Whnt, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than tin4 following paragraph in one of the published proposals of what we should call a hopeless project ? — •" According' to the estimate of experienced engineers, the expense of a railwny onylil to... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 pagine
...mode of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of notice. What for instance can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the following paragraph." Here follows an account of the expected cost and traffic of a Woolwich line, containing "as locomotive... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pagine
...mode of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of notice. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the following paragraph,'—in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches.... | |
 | 1848 - 382 pagine
...of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them, and their visionary schemes, unworthy of notice. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the hopeless project that ' locomotive machines, moving with twice the velocity, and with greater safety,... | |
 | Samuel Salt - 1850 - 260 pagine
...mode of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of notice. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the following paragraph," — in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches. "We should as... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pagine
...mode of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary scheme* unworthy of notice. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the scheme in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. We... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 436 pagine
...exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification...paragraph, in one of the published proposals of what we » It is believed that no allusion is here made to Mr. George Stephenson. should call a hopeless project?... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pagine
...exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam engine (or to speak in plain English, the tгrom carriage) may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification...proposals of what we should call a hopeless project?" Those " ridiculous proposals " were to carry passengers between London and Woolwich " with twice the... | |
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Railways generally throughout the kingdom, and superseding all the canals, all the waggons, mails and stagecoaches, post-chaises, and, in short, every other mode of conveyance by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of... 
