 | English literature - 1858 - 788 pages
...coalmarkets, Mr Stephenson early detected. 'The strength of Britain,' he would say, 'lies in her coal-beds; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...country, to the doors of all England. " The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her coal-beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Books - 1858 - 590 pages
...country, to the doors of all England. " The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her coal-beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 346 pages
...coal-markets, Mr. Stephenson early detected. "The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her coal-beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...country, to the doors of all England. " The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her coal-beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 552 pages
...products of the country, to the doors of all England. " The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her iron and coal beds ; and the locomotive is destined,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Business & Economics - 1865 - 388 pages
...George Stephenson : — " The strength of Britain," he used to say, " lies in her iron and coal-beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies,...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool, but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought to sit upon a bag of coals."... | |
 | Joseph Holdsworth - 1866 - 122 pages
...STEPHENSON, " lies in her Iron and Coalbeds, and, above all other agencies, the Locomotive is destined to bring it forth. The Lord Chancellor now sits upon a bag of Wool, but Wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought to sit upon a bag of Coals."... | |
 | Richard Pike - 1884 - 304 pages
...when London would be supplied with coal by railway. ' The strength of Britain,' he said, 'is in her coal beds; and the locomotive is destined, above all...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
 | Richard Pike - Railroads - 1884 - 318 pages
...when London would be supplied with coal by railway. ' The strength of Britain,' he said, 'is in her coal beds; and the locomotive is destined, above all...Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of... | |
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The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her iron and coal beds ; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies, to bring it forth. The Lord Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the... 
