| 1850 - 542 Seiten
...but assured his readers that the people of Woolwich would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine (a high-pressure engine), and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour!) And the reviewer... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 Seiten
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, 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,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 Seiten
...fragments, or dashed in pieces by the flying off, or the breaking of a wheel. But with all these assurances, 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,... | |
| 1844 - 888 Seiten
...These gross exaggerations may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. 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,... | |
| Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 Seiten
...400 miles a day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine... | |
| 1847 - 854 Seiten
...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, 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,... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 812 Seiten
...English, the steam carriage, may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned 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,... | |
| Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 192 Seiten
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer... | |
| Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 106 Seiten
...readers that the people of Woolwich " would as soon suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of the Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, (a high pressure engine) and going at such a rate (eighteen or twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer... | |
| 608 Seiten
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon míe iif Счндгске'я ricochet rochets, as tru.it themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rute; their property , perhaps, they may trust; but while one of the finest navigable rivers in the... | |
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