 | Daniel T. Taylor - 1888 - 176 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate !" Today men laugh at the incredulity... | |
 | 1888 - 600 pagine
...This was scouted. Nobody would hear of travelling faster than eight or nine miles an hour. " We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, " wrote the Quarterly Review, "as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1891 - 348 pagine
...the scheme in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as s/<?<r coaches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine... | |
 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - 1894 - 860 pagine
...conservative Englishman was sufficiently indicated by the sage words of the British Quarterly Review : " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." But the world kept moving,... | |
 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - 1894 - 876 pagine
...conservative Englishman was sufficiently indicated by the sage words of the British Quarterly Review : " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." But the world kept moving,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pagine
...traveling twice as fast as horses ? " asked a writer in the English " Quarterly Review " for March, 1825. " We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. Wre trust that... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage-coaches? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...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. We will... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - 1900 - 318 pagine
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate. We trust that Parliament... | |
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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. 
