 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. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich...  The Quarterly review - Pàgina 3621825Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 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 pàgines
...finest navigable rivers in the world runs parallel to the proposed rail-road, we consider the other 2O per cent, which the subscribers are to receive for...merits of the two. No accurate estimate can be made of their comparative expense, because both must depend on circumstances constantly varying, and which... | |
 | 608 pàgines
...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...Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum." So, too, Mr. SYLVESTER, as quoted by the reviewer: — "'Although it would be practicable to go at... | |
 | 1847 - 862 pàgines
...ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. . . . We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly absurd this now appears to us, and »hat a lesson does it convey to those whose doubts... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 pàgines
...Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum." Then to shew what might reasonably be expected he gives an account of some recent experiments made... | |
 | 1848 - 382 pàgines
...as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate as 18 or 20 miles an hour. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all Railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles... | |
 | 432 pàgines
...Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1849 - 152 pàgines
...Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all Railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pàgines
...one of Congreve's rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' After thus backing — after the fashion of Tom Spring or Jem Ward — Old Father Thames against the... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 pàgines
...off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum." Then there was another opposition. Engineers, lawyers members of Parliament, and a host beside, said... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1851 - 332 pàgines
...Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. * * * We will back old father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum." Such were the opinions of the disbelievers ; nor were some who were favourable much more pro* v" 104... | |
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