 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...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 neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily... | |
 | 1848 - 640 pages
...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 reached, and in consequence a very high velocity has been... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...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 reached, and in consequence a very high velocity has been... | |
 | 1844 - 174 pages
...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 reached, and in consequence a very high velocity has been... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 378 pages
...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 reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...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 reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...!<ximotive engine. That engine was made 32 years ajfo, 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 f ulure on the Stockton and Darlington line — on which ítíphenson's locomotive was tried,... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...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 reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...«aid to my friends that there was no limit to the »Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, vol. i., p. 265. speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand." A partial failure on the Stockton and Darlington line — on which Stephenson's locomotive was tried,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1845 - 472 pages
...travel on railroads at the rate of twenty miles an hour. That he may have " said to his friends in 1813 that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine," may be true ; we have little doubt that Messrs. Trevithick and Vivian, when they took out their patent... | |
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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. 
