 It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles...  Littell's Living Age - Página 3371845Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 416 páginas
...engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles an hour. Nothing can do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense !"* "As to those persons," said the Quarterly Review, " who speculate on making railways generally... | |
 | E. D. Chattaway - 1855 - 154 páginas
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense ! " These strictures may well provoke a smile when read in contrast with the accounts of recent locomotive... | |
 | E. D. Chattaway - 1856 - 184 páginas
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense!" These strictures may well provoke a smile when read in contrast with the accounts of recent locomotive... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 páginas
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement, than the promulgation of such nonsense." • A practical Treatise on Railroads. By Nicholas Wood, Colliery Viewer, CE London : Hunt, Chance,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 páginas
...Wood, Colliery Viewer, CE London : Hurst, Chance, and Co. 220 LIFE OF GEORGE 8TEPHEN8ON. [CHAP. xvur. do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement, than the promulgation of such nonsense." Indeed, when Mr. Stephenson, at the consultations of counsel previous to the Liverpool and Manchester... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 páginas
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." Indeed, when Mr. Stephenson, at the consultations of counsel previous to the Liverpool and Manchester... | |
 | William Henry WILLS (Miscellaneous Writer.) - 1860 - 456 páginas
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...improvement than the promulgation of such NONSENSE!" It would seem, then, that the Longbow «€ the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest in his... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - 464 páginas
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic tpeculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such JTONSEN8E !" It would seem, then, that the Longbow of the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - 492 páginas
...enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we * " Porter's Progress of the Nation," vol. ii. p. 22. shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve,...improvement than the promulgation of such NONSENSE !" It would seem, then, that the Longbow of the aboriginal prospectuses was only too modest in his... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - 558 páginas
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." 2 1 " Many years ago I met in a public library with a bulky volume, consisting of the prospectuses... | |
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