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" What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fa-st as stage - coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet... "
The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising ... - Página 263
por Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 501 páginas
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen31

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 - 1825 - 582 páginas
...dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these 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,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen31

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 páginas
...dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these 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,...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volumen13

1844 - 888 páginas
...exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those 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,...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1847 - 854 páginas
...of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these 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,...
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A Review of Railways and Railway Legislation at Home and Abroad, Volumen1

Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 páginas
...day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine...
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 812 páginas
...steam carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those 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,...
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A history of wonderful inventions

History - 1849 - 270 páginas
...hour, on a railway then in contemplation between London and Woolwich, the 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...
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Notes and Queries

1903 - 666 páginas
...dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon 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,...
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Railways -- Past, Present, & Prospective, Volumen4

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1849 - 152 páginas
...in which a prospect is held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as stage coaches, We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon QUARTERLY REVIEW (No. 167) of 1848. " Waggons of coal and heavy luggage, now-a-days,...
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Eliza Cook's Journal, Volumen1

Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 páginas
...as 1825, the Quarterly Reeiew, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can he more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice a» fatt as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer...
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