 | George Dodd - 1867 - 374 pagine
...of practical men. Mr Nicholas Wood, in his Treatise on Railroads, says : ' It is far from my purpose to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations,...professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, or that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18, or 20 miles an hour.'... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 520 pagine
...speculations of the " Scotsman" as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed : " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realized, and that we shall see engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1869 - 1026 pagine
...and, though he was strongly in favor of locomotives, he said, with evident allusion to Mr. Mudaren : " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall sec engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles an hour. Nothing could... | |
 | David Bremner - 1869 - 582 pagine
...though he was strongly in favour of locomotives, he said, with evident allusion to Mr Maclaren : — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty... | |
 | 1872 - 594 pagine
...opponents. For instance : ' It is far from my wish,' said Mr. Nicholas Wood, an advocate for the railway, ' to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiast speculator will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve,... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - 1875 - 360 pagine
...all along in the van of railway progress, and who could see further ahead than most men, declared : " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see them travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen,... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 pagine
...Charles Maclaren's articles published the year before, and which are referred to on a subsequent page, said : — " It is far from my wish to promulgate...world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather the professions, of the enthusiastic speculatists will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 pagine
...Charles Maclaren's articles published the year before, and which are referred to on a subsequent page, said : — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculout expectations, or rather the professions, of the enthusiastic speculatists will be realised,... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pagine
...never be worked by steam-power! " * In 1825, a writer, in referring to the expectations of Stephenson, said: "It is far from my wish to promulgate to the...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculator will be realized, and that we shall see engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1909 - 942 pagine
...6J miles." In the first edition of Nicholas Wood's Treatise on Railways, 1829, occurs this passage: "It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic specialist, will be realized, and that we shall see them travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18, or 20... | |
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It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles... 
