 It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3371845Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Fraser (F. C. A.) - 1903 - 320 pagine
..." should see engines travelling at the rate of " twelve to twenty miles an hour. Nothing," said he, "could do more harm towards their " general adoption...improvement than the " promulgation of such nonsense." Another writer on the same subject in the Quarterly Review, asks " What can be more " palpably absurd... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - 1913 - 242 pagine
...enthusiastic speculator that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." The notion that one hundred miles an hour would one day be achieved would probably have driven this... | |
 | Ernest Hanbury Hankin - 1928 - 324 pagine
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." About this time the Quarterly Review published an able article on the projected -Liverpool and Manchester... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - 572 pagine
...and Darlington, had published, in favour of locomotive engines, the following opinion : — ' It ia far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the...towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgaliou Of SUCh NONSENSE !' We suspect that the enthusiast here alluded to was Mr. George Stephenson.... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1924 - 786 pagine
...specialist will be realised and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 and 20 miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and employment than the promulgation of such nonsense." In the Quarterly Review of the same year, another... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 2001 - 240 pagine
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." * Among the papers left by Mr. Sandars we find a letter addressed to him by Sir John Barrow of the... | |
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