 | Ernest Hanbury Hankin - Ability - 1928 - 324 pages
...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, as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate." What is the source of the mistakes made by these two writers ? Had... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Business & Economics - 1968 - 542 pages
...should as soon expect the people to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricoctiet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." The merits of the competing engines for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway were determined by the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Transportation - 2001 - 240 pages
...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, as trust themselves...We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Kailway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, ia all railways it may sanction, limit the speed... | |
 | Catharine H. Thompson - Astrology - 1899 - 430 pages
...people of Woolwich to suffer 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." Hn explanation anfc DR. JOHNSON being asked by a lady how he came to define " pastern " as " the knee... | |
 | Peter Macinnis - History - 2003 - 296 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 . . . While the intention of the writer is clearly to prove that a 'general railway' will not replace... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 465 pages
...expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. We trust that Parliament will, in all the railways it may grant, limit the speed to eight or nine miles... | |
 | Olav Thulesius - History - 2007 - 265 pages
...expect 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."2 The Novelty One of the secrets of Ericsson's success was that he never gave up even after failures,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1874 - 924 pages
...stage-coaches T 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." A Parliamentary opponent to the first great passenger line, the Manchester and Liverpool, declared... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1848 - 404 pages
...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." The modern railway system has, however, not only done this, giving rise to new habits in the present... | |
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 866 pages
...remarked, "We should as soon expect tho people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo fired off upon one of C'ongreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." The opposition thus manifested liad not tho effect of deterring to any considerable extent the development... | |
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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... 
