 What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets,...  A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine - Page 191by Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...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 upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...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 upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. 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, going at such a rate." * =* Quarterly... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...steam carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned 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, going at such a rate." In that... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, 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, going at such a ri'-.. . . .... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 862 pages
...sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should ns soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a... | |
 | Railroads - 1848 - 382 pages
...it has proceeded, it may produce on earth peace and good will towards men." — Published Dec. 1848. 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, going at such a rate as 18 or... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pages
...of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. ' We should as soon,' adds the reviewer, ' 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, going at such a rate.'" Would... | |
 | History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...hour, on a railway then in contemplation between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds—"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 a machine going at such a rate." In two-and-twenty... | |
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