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" 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 - Page 134
1903
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 31

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 - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...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...parallel to the proposed rail-road, we consider the other 30 per cent, which the subscribers are to receive for the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 31

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 pages
...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...parallel to the proposed rail-road, we consider the other 2O per cent, which the subscribers are to receive for the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 13

Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...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." * =* Quarterly Review, Vol. xxxi., p. 361. The illustrations of this spirit might be indefinitely extended....
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...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." In that year, the common belief was that railways were altogether delusions and impositions. The Liverpool...
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A Review of Railways and Railway Legislation at Home and Abroad, Volume 1

Samuel Shaen - Railroad law - 1847 - 122 pages
...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 going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum." Then to shew what might reasonably...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1847 - 854 pages
...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 ri'-.. . . . We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly...
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The Monthly railway record, ed. by J. Robertson and J.W. Brooke

608 pages
...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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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 7-8

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 862 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs 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.' How exceedingly absurd...
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Railway Management, &c

Railroads - 1848 - 382 pages
...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 as 18 or 20 miles an hour. We will back Old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum....
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The Journal of Health and Disease, Volume 3

1848 - 788 pages
...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.'" Would it not be well for those who predict the disappearance of homoeopathy and its infinitesimal doses...
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