 | Guy Morrison Walker - 1917 - 144 pagine
...Woolwich, whereby it was proposed to shorten the time by stage coach one-half, the Review declared: "We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreave's Rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." But... | |
 | William Maxwell Evarts - 1919 - 668 pagine
...palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect 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 Congley's ricochet muskets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.... | |
 | William Maxwell Evarts - 1919 - 676 pagine
...palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect 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 Congley's ricochet muskets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.... | |
 | Alfred Edward Carey - 1920 - 328 pagine
...as fast as the stage coach. The poor fools who were deluded by such specious nonsense were advised to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, rather than to trust their necks to a machine moving at such a pace. It is necessary for me to tell... | |
 | Stockton-on-Tees Railway Centenary Committee - 1925 - 112 pagine
...engine.... may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned,... we would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such... | |
 | Hugh Thomson Kerr - 1926 - 202 pagine
...absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as horses? 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 trust that... | |
 | 1927 - 636 pagine
...absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twke 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 trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. When the promoters of the... | |
 | Lawrence Fraser Abbott - 1927 - 326 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...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. This was written when Sir... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937 - 680 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 Congrene's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate."... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937 - 676 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 Congrene's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate."... | |
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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. 
