 | 1850 - 542 pages
...Father Thames against it for any sum," but assured his readers that the people of Woolwich would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's...as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine (a high-pressure engine), and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour!) And the reviewer... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 pages
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their property, perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the world... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate ; their property, perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the world... | |
 | 1844 - 888 pages
...that the railway engine could go eighteen or twenty miles an hour, says ; " These gross exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification...the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." * =* Quarterly Review, Vol. xxxi., p. 361. The illustrations of this spirit might be indefinitely extended.... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to...themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a ri'-.. . . . We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 pages
...400 miles a day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.... | |
 | 1847 - 862 pages
...sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should ns soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 192 pages
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 106 pages
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer... | |
 | 608 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon míe iif Счндгске'я ricochet rochets, as tru.it themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rute; their property , perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the... | |
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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. 
