 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 718 pages
...general rail road for steam-engines would be), and all this, in order to make way for the introduction of the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance...the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent. AUDI ALTERAM PARTBM. 514 London Pageants during Ihe Commonwealth. [Dec. LONDON PAGEANTS DURING THE... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...would be raised in price one hundred per cent., or, more probably, it would be exhausted altogether. It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete...kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent." Notwithstanding such verbal and vituperative objections, the bill was this time successful, and the... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 430 pages
...hour, would occasion? . . It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance of quiet comfort in- all parts of the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent." A gallant Colonel, too, assured the House of Commons, 4/hat -"railways -were dangerous and delusive... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...dismay. . . . Iron would be raised in price 100 per cent., or, more probably, exhausted altogether! It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete...arguments as these, strongly supported the bill, and it passed the third reading by a majority of eighty-eight to forty-one. The bill passed the House of Lords... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...dismay. . . • Iron would be raised in price 100 per cent., or, more probably, exhausted altogether ! It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance of quiet and comfort in all parta of the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent ! " Mr. Huskisson and other speakers,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...without dismay. Iron would be raised in price 100 per cent., or more probably, exhausted altogether ! It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete...parts of the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invest ! " Mr. Huskisson and other speakers, though unable to reply to such arguments as these, strongly... | |
 | Henry Alexander Glass - Transportation - 1864 - 134 pages
...whirl, which locomotive engines, passing at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour, would occasion ? It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete...kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent!" The third reading passed by a majority of eighty-eight to forty-one, in a thin House ; and to the credit... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Philosophy, English - 1865 - 432 pages
...Iron will be raised in price a hundred per cent. ; or, more probably, exhausted altogether. It will be the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance...the kingdom that the ingenuity of man could invent ! The Act cost the Company £27,000; and in 1826 Stephenson was appointed principal engineer, with... | |
 | 1868 - 592 pages
...which he was sure Parliament would never consent, availed. He concluded with denouncing railways, as " the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance...kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent." And yet, in that very month, it was announced in the same journal that a company was formed for constructing... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - Children - 1868 - 158 pages
...altogether ! The price of coal would be ruinous. Why, a railroad would be the greatest nuisance, the biggest disturbance of quiet and comfort, in all parts of...kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent." Not content with belittling his engine, they could not stop short of abusing Stephenson himself. "... | |
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Iron would be raised in price 100 per cent., or, more probably, exhausted altogether! It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance of quiet and comfort in all parts of the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent ! 
