 | 1858 - 836 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upou one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at... | |
 | Thomas Greenbury - 1860 - 154 pagine
...absurd and ridiculous, than the prospect held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's richochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospects held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Oongreve's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machiue, going »t such a... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pagine
...palpably ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ! 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... | |
 | 1860 - 788 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospects held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fireJ olf upon one of Uougreve's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine,... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pagine
...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 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... | |
 | Frederick Boileau Elliot - 1864 - 40 pagine
...railway between London and Woolwich, which was calculated to travel at twice the velocity of coaches, he adds— " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to be fired from one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to such a machine, going at such a rate."... | |
 | William Galt - 1865 - 484 pagine
...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 of Woolwich to...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, aa trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their property, perhaps,... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pagine
...travel twice as quick as the mail was considered perfectly absurd, and it was remarked, that 4 we 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... | |
 | 1868 - 600 pagine
...travel twice as quick as the mail was considered perfectly absurd, and it was remarked, that 'we 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... | |
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We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's richochet rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. 
