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" It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. "
Our home islands [by T. Milner - Page 64
by Thomas Milner - 1857
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Annual Register, Volume 90

Edmund Burke - 1849 - 1012 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour ; but it must be done, and 1 did my best. I had to place myself in the most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I should pin a cross on the concern. It was not an easy lask for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour,...— the witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I was not long in it, I assure you, before I began to wish for a hole to creep out at. I could not find...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

1844 - 950 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour,...myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness box of a parliamentary committee. I was not long in it, I assure you, before I began to wish...
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The West of Scotland Magazine and Review, Volume 1, Issue 1

1844 - 742 pages
...greater rate than ten wiles an hour, 1 should put a cross upon the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and 1 did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions— the witness-box of...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 634 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I should put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must he done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1845 - 376 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour,...to satisfy either the committee or myself. Some one enquired if I were a foreigner, and another hinted that I was mad. But I put up with every rebuff,...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1845 - 372 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour,...to satisfy either the committee or myself. Some one enquired if I were a foreigner, and another hinted that I was mad. But I put up with every rebuff,...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1845 - 854 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour...— the witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I was not long in it, I assure you, before I began to wish for a hole to creep out at. I could not find...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1845 - 558 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour...done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in the most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I could not...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volume 1; Volumes 3-4

1845 - 862 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour...be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself iu that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I was not...
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