 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to surfer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves...We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Eailway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...be so great, that we should as soon expect that "people would 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." In the same article from which we quote, the general question of railways is thus summarily disposed... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pages
...with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." Evil forebodings were multiplied with railway schemes. The smoke of the locomotive, it was said, as... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 pages
...said the writer, that people would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off like a Congreve rocket, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate — the rate of eighteen miles an hour, which people now-a-days, accustomed to dash along in express... | |
 | William Galt - Railroad law - 1865 - 486 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Galt - Railroad law - 1865 - 484 pages
...people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, aa 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... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...stage-coaches ! 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 off at such a rate." Nor was this folly confined to these few. An eminent parliamentary lawyer affirmed... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pages
...was remarked, that 4 we should expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.' Scarcely less fanciful were the objections now raised to railroads in India. The natives, with their... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1868 - 508 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." It should be remarked that this volume is written in the interests... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1868 - 448 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... | |
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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... 
