| Charles Francis Adams - Railroad accidents - 1879 - 302 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the...skill, and human foresight than the statistics of rairoad accidents. INDEX. Abergele, accident at. 72. Accidents, railroad, about stations, 166. at highway... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 304 pages
...blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at A CREDITABLE MONUMENT. . 2JI once the speed, the certainty, and the safety with...skill, and human foresight than the statistics of rairoad accidents. INDEX. 273 INDEX. Abergele, accident at. 72. Accidents, railroad, about stations,... | |
| Engineering - 1879 - 542 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the...foresight than the statistics of railroad accidents." MISCELLANEOUS. AN extensive district of tin ore is reported to have been found some fifty odd miles... | |
| Clinton Bradford Herrick - 1899 - 298 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the safety, with which the intricate movements of modern life are carried on, there is no more creditable monument to human care, human... | |
| Leonor Fresnel Loree - Railroads - 1922 - 822 pages
...devastations of pestilence, the inevitability of death. Not without reason, then, does Adams assert that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty and the safety...foresight than the statistics of railroad accidents. From 1870 to 1880, Adams estimated that the average travel on the railroads of Massachusetts was 80,000.000... | |
| American essays - 1876 - 794 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the...of railroad accidents. Charles Francis Adams. Jr. THE CURRENCY CONFLICT. IN the autumn of 1862 I spent several weeks with Secretary Chase, and was permitted... | |
| American essays - 1876 - 792 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the...on, there is no more creditable monument to human c»re, human skill, and human foresight, than the statistics of railroad accidents. Charles Francis... | |
| 1895 - 738 pages
...accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty and the safety with which the intricate movements of modern life are carried on, there is no more creditable monument to human care, human... | |
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