 | English literature - 1858 - 788 pages
...obstacles that will have to be encountered. But what I have said will come to pass, as sure as I live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killiugworth.' The anticipations... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to sec the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth." The result,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...fire. I only wish I may Eve to Bee rhe day, thon^h that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how Ğlow all human progress is, and with what difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful erperiment at Killingworth." The result,... | |
 | 1858 - 812 pages
...difficulties that will have to be encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth." —Pp. 196,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Books - 1858 - 590 pages
...will have to be encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish 1 may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth." The result,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Locomotives - 1858 - 604 pages
...will have to be encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish 1 may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how elow all human progress is, and with what difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted,... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 346 pages
...obstacles that will have to be encountered. But what I have said will corne to pass, as sure as I live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth." The anticipations... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...difficulties that will have to be encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how CHAP. VIII. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON LINE OPENED. 135 slow all human progress is, and with what difficulty... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 552 pages
...difficulties that will have to be encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that...difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth." The result,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 792 pages
...difficulties that will have to lie encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that...as I know how slow all human progress is, and with wliat difficulty I have l>een able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten... | |
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... for the king and all his subjects. The time, is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties to be encountered, but what I have said will... 
