 | John Joseph Lalor - 1893 - 1154 pages
...people of \Voolwieli li suffer themselves to be tired off upon one of Congrevc's ricochet rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." — London was lir-Л connected by rail with the interior of England in 1883, when the RAILWAYS. through... | |
 | Robert Routledge - Inventions - 1893 - 732 pages
...coaches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to bo fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any... | |
 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Industries - 1894 - 860 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." But the world kept moving, in spite of vested interests and selfish luxury and sluggish apprehensiveness.... | |
 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Industries - 1894 - 876 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." But the world kept moving, in spite of vested interests and selfish luxury and sluggish apprehensiveness.... | |
 | Henry Frith - Engineering - 1895 - 406 pages
...mortification of those concerned. We should as soon expect the people 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 — viz., twelve miles an hour ! " So said the sapient Quarterly. This was the spirit in which the... | |
 | 1896 - 606 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...mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. . . . We trust that Parliament will, in all the railways which it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or... | |
 | Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1897 - 510 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 to the mercy of such a machine, going /..t such a rate We will back old father Thames against the Woolwich l railway for any sum." Such objections... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 582 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. Wre trust that Parliament will, in all the railways it may grant, limit the speed to eight or nine... | |
 | American Railway Master Mechanics' Association - Railroad engineering - 1899 - 338 pages
...he 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...the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." It was no doubt the sting of this ignorant ridicule which incited Stephenson, in brave defiance of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 452 pages
...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."1 1 Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXI. pp. 861, 362. Illustrations of this spirit might be indefinitely... | |
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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... 
