 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 416 pagine
...engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles an hour. Nothing can do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense !"* "As to those persons," said the Quarterly Review, " who speculate on making railways generally... | |
 | E. D. Chattaway - 1855 - 154 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 ! " These strictures may well provoke a smile when read in contrast with the accounts of recent locomotive... | |
 | E. D. Chattaway - 1856 - 184 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!" These strictures may well provoke a smile when read in contrast with the accounts of recent locomotive... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 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." • A practical Treatise on Railroads. By Nicholas Wood, Colliery Viewer, CE London : Hunt, Chance,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 pagine
...Wood, Colliery Viewer, CE London : Hurst, Chance, and Co. 220 LIFE OF GEORGE 8TEPHEN8ON. [CHAP. xvur. do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement, than the promulgation of such nonsense." Indeed, when Mr. Stephenson, at the consultations of counsel previous to the Liverpool and Manchester... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 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." Indeed, when Mr. Stephenson, at the consultations of counsel previous to the Liverpool and Manchester... | |
 | William Henry WILLS (Miscellaneous Writer.) - 1860 - 456 pagine
...the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling...improvement than the promulgation of such NONSENSE!" It would seem, then, that the Longbow «€ the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest in his... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - 444 pagine
...the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic specwlatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling...adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such KONSENSE !" It would seem, then, that the Longbow of the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - 492 pagine
...enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we * " Porter's Progress of the Nation," vol. ii. p. 22. shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve,...improvement than the promulgation of such NONSENSE !" It would seem, then, that the Longbow of the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest in his... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - 558 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." 2 1 " Many years ago I met in a public library with a bulky volume, consisting of the prospectuses... | |
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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 speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles... 
