 | 1848
...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...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.'" Would it not be well for those who predict the disappearance of homoeopathy and its infinitesimal doses... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1848
...will yet, we trurt, crow: themselves to be 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." * r Vt The poor man swayeth the settlor.s axe, Till the forests far retire ; And the city springs on... | |
 | 1849
...coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to he fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves...mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will hack old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903
...expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired oft' upon one of Congreve's ricochft rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their property, perhaps, they may trust : but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the world... | |
 | History - 1849
...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 years afterwards, trains running at more than double... | |
 | Inventions - 1849 - 125 pages
...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 years afterwards, trains running at more than double... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850
...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...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." * It is related that the Arve, a river of Switzerland, swollen by floods, sometimes drives the waters... | |
 | Samuel Salt - Great Britain - 1850 - 240 pages
...soon," adds the reviewer, "expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired oif upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate," Cotton Goods Exported to America.— No. 172. Below it a Statement of the British Manufactures of Cotton,... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - Railroads - 1850 - 221 pages
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer... | |
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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 ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate... 
