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" I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. "
The locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson - Page 340
by Samuel Smiles - 1904
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Annual Register, Volume 90

Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...with Lord Ravensworth's money. That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it My Lard. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. • • • 1 betook myself to mending my...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...to make a locomotive engine That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it ' My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

Meteorology - 1844 - 950 pages
...to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it 'My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such ao engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...to make a locomotive engine That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it ' My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volume 1; Volumes 3-4

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made 32 years ago, and we called it " My Lord." I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand.' A partial failure on the Stockton and Darlington...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1845 - 558 pages
...would entrust me with money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirtytwo years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the ...

1844 - 174 pages
...engine. (Laughter and cheer«.) That engine was made 32 years ago, and we called it My Lord. (Laughter.) I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...would entrust me with money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 372 pages
...would entrust me with money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been...
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The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 42

1845 - 472 pages
...to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it " My Lord." I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made la stand.' A partial failure on the Stockton and Darlington...
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