 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...speculations of the Scotsman as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed, — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiast speculator will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...speculations of the Scotsman as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed, — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculator will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...speculations of the Scotsman as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed : — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculator will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...Committee asked if he were not mad! A Mr. Nicholas Wood delivered himself in a pamphlet as follows: " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...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,... | |
 | William Henry WILLS (Miscellaneous Writer.) - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...Committee asked if he were not mad! A Mr. Nicholas Wood delivered himself in a pamphlet as follows: " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty... | |
 | William Henry Wills - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...Committee asked if he were not mad ! A Mr. Nicholas Wood delivered himself in a pamphlet as follows: " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic tpeculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...speculations of the Ncwte/iion as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed — " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...supporter of the locomotive, in 1825 protested as follows against the extravagant ideas of Stephenson : — It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiast speculator will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve,... | |
 | George Dodd - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...of practical men. Mr Nicholas Wood, in his Treatise on Railroads, says : ' It is far from my purpose to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations,...professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, or that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18, or 20 miles an hour.'... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...speculations of the " Scotsman" as well as of his equally sanguine friend Stephenson, observed : " It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realized, and that we shall see engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,... | |
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It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or treenty miles... 
