 | 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
...a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, Or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | 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
...a steam-bout, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | 608 pages
...a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being humcd or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles nn hour, by means of a high-pressure engine, to he told that they arc in no danger of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...a steamboat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' .It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...the steamcarriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. * * * It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of the high -pressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1852 - 776 pages
...infernal machines." And, credite posteri! here behold the prophetic words of the " Quarterly," in 1825 : " It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour, by means of the high-pressure engine, to be told that they are in no danger... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1856 - 632 pages
...Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." One of the original grounds of opposition to railways,...opinion upon the danger of railway travelling :— It is curious, occasionally, to contrast prediction and event. The last return of the Government Railway... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...years ; a progress unexampled in commereial annals, except in association with railway intereourse. One of the original grounds of opposition to railways...consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour, by means of a high-pressure engine, to be told that there is no danger of being... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pages
...plainly, the steam-carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of the highpressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
 | London (England) - 1872 - 594 pages
...the steam-carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. . . It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or .twenty miles an hour, by means of the highpressure engine, to be told that they are in... | |
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It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no danger of being seasick while on shore ; that they are not to be scalded... 
