 | 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 sivua
...many of those which are already announced, will not, when weighed in the balance, ' be found wanting.' The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive...must end in the mortification of those concerned. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, than the following paragraph in one... | |
 | 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 sivua
...those which are already announced, will not> when weighed in the balance, ' be found wanting.' TTie gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive...must end in the mortification of those concerned. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous; than the following paragraph in one... | |
 | 1825 - 560 sivua
...many of those which are already announced, will not, when weighed in the balance, ' be found wanting.' The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive...must end in the mortification of those concerned. What, for instance, can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, than the following paragraph in one... | |
 | 1844 - 888 sivua
...that the railway engine could go eighteen or twenty miles an hour, says ; " 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... | |
 | 1847 - 862 sivua
...stuge-coaches, postchaises, and, in short, every other mode of conveyance by land and by water, »e deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of...must end in the mortification of those concerned.'* The writer then quotes a paragraph from the report on the proposed Woolwich railway, containing a fair... | |
 | 1847 - 854 sivua
...visionary schemes unworthy of notice. The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive (team-engine, or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage,...must end in the mortification of those concerned.'* The writer then quotes a paragraph from the report on the proposed Woolwich railway, containing a fair... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 sivua
...exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam engine, or, to speak plain 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... | |
 | 1848 - 424 sivua
...miles an hour : " The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine, or, to speak English, the steam-carriage, may delude for a time,...must end in the mortification of those concerned. . . . We connection, that while here, in our country, cvery man has i voice in the Government, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 sivua
...that the railway engine could go eighteen or twenty miles an hour, says : " 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... | |
 | 1850 - 682 sivua
...the Quarterly Review for that year, thu« writing regarding it :— " The gross exaggeration of U» powers of the locomotive steam-engine, or to speak in plain English, the steam carriage, nur delude for a time, but must end in the niortirication of those concerned." The... | |
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The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned. 
