 | 1848 - 788 pages
...can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the following paragraph,'—in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches. ' We should as soon,' adds the reviewer, ' expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of... | |
 | 432 pages
...Even as lats as 1825, the Quarterly Review, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Hallway, said, " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice ot fast as stage coaches 1 We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to I -n ili r themselves... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Railroads - 1849 - 152 pages
...instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous in which a prospect is held out of locomotive travelling twice as fast as stage coaches, We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon QUARTERLY REVIEW (No. 167) of 1848. " Waggons of coal and heavy... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...as 1825, the Quarterly Reeiew, in an article on the proposed Woolwich Railway, said, " What can he more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice a» fatt as stage coaches ! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the scheme in which a prospect is held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as...We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...leading Review, referring to a projected railway to Woolwich, said, — " What can be more perfectly absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1876 - 528 pages
...as plain as daylight wherever the spectroscope has penetrated. Said the British Quarterly, in 1825, "What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage-coaches. We would as soon expect people to suffer themselves to be... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...with twice the velocity and with greater safety than ordinary coaches, the reviewer proceeded : — " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than...We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrevc's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1857 - 504 pages
...its day, is quoted in the Life of George Stephenson, by S. Smiles : — " What (said the reviewer) can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the...held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...with twice the velocity and with greater safety than ordinary coaches, the reviewer proceeded : — " What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling tt.'-itv as fast as stage coaches ! We should as soon erpect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves... | |
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We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. 
