 | 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 going at such a rate.... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 862 pages
...sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should ns soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a... | |
 | 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, fly across Leicestershire... | |
 | 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, going... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back Old... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 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 by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at... | |
 | Industries - 1851 - 748 pages
...locomotive engine 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 upon by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 416 pages
...called forth the indignation of the reviewer. "But with all these assurances," he adds, "we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Cougreve's ricocltet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate."f... | |
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What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast 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 rockets',... 
