 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.  Notes and Queries - Página 1341903Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1898 - 108 páginas
...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 railway for any sum.1 Objections like these... | |
 | Kate Asaphine Levi - 1898 - 53 páginas
...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 railway for any sum.' Objections like these... | |
 | American Railway Master Mechanics' Association - 1899 - 338 páginas
...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." It was no doubt the sting of this ignorant ridicule which incited Stephenson, in brave defiance of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 452 páginas
...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."1 1 Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXI. pp. 861, 362. Illustrations of this spirit might be indefinitely... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 páginas
...people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's richochet rockets, as to 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,... | |
 | 1902 - 916 páginas
...people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off on one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as to 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.' The poor backer would have... | |
 | 1902 - 784 páginas
...people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as to 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." Let us turn to astronomy.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 páginas
..."We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to be fired off on one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." Once a practical Hying machine existed, the uses to which it might be applied arc varied and important.... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1904 - 1038 páginas
...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 would back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any tmm." Stephenson himself, in evidence... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1908 - 270 páginas
...expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's rockets, as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. We trust that Parliament will, in all the railways it may grant, limit the speed to eight or nine miles... | |
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