 | 1848 - 382 pages
...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...nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Silvestre is as great as can be ventured upon with safety." The check which Railway speculation lately... | |
 | 432 pages
...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...nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Silvestre is as great as can be ventured on with safety." The short commentary on this is, that the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1849 - 152 pages
...wonderful discovery which 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...nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Silvestre is as great as can be ventured upon with safety." it has pleased the Almighty to impart to... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will hack old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for...nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Silvestre is as great as can he ventured on with safety." The short commentary on this is, that the... | |
 | 1903 - 666 pages
...the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical as that to be derived from the passengers ; we will back old father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum."—tfnarlerly /,'< cii a-. March, 182.">, xxxi. 361, 362. unworthy of notice In a similar strain... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...themselves to be fired off upon 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 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1850 - 526 pages
...twenty miles an hour!) And the reviewer expressed his trust that " Parliament will, in all railroads it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured upon with safety." ! ! While contemplating the progress that has ensued,... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 pages
...twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer expresses his trust that " Parliament will, in all Railroads it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured upon with safety ! ! " The experiment has, however, been tried, and... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1851 - 332 pages
...themselves to he fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. * * * We will back...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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... What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet... 
