| 1814 - 678 pages
...and other «hides of various degrees of speed, with tbe best tackle for readily turning out; tnd «e might, ere this, have witnessed our mail coaches running at the rate of tea miles an hour, drawn by a single bone, or impelled fifteen miles by Bieniinsop'fc steam-engine!... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1848 - 726 pages
...A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for over-stepping the... | |
| 1848 - 706 pages
...A reward if a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles au hour by Blenkineop'e steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for over-stepping the... | |
| 1848 - 700 pages
...A reward ufa single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Snch would have been a legitimate motive for over-stepping the... | |
| 1848 - 676 pages
...thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degree« of speed, with the beat tackle for readily turning out ; and we might, ere...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1848 - 674 pages
...A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...at the rate of ten miles an hour, drawn by a single horte, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate... | |
| 1848 - 696 pages
...the best tackle for readily t.iruing out J and we might, ere this, have witnessed our mail conches running at the rate of ten miles an hour, drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimóle motive for over-stepping the... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engines. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...great railroads which pass the place." supplied coaches aiHi other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 pages
...CHAP. xiv.] SPECULATIONS ABOUT RAILWAYS. 157 supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out...drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the... | |
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