 | 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 - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...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... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...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,... | |
 | History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...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,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Railroads - 1849 - 152 pages
...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,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...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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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... 
