 ... will be carried up to the very tops of Ben Nevis and Helvellyn, that machines constructed on principles yet undiscovered, will be in every house, that there will be no highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam, that our debt, vast as it seems...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5601830Full view - About this book
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...house, — that there will be no highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam, — that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grandchildren...nothing ; but this we say — If any person had told lhe Parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720, Ibatin 1830 the wealth of... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...vast as it seems lo us, will appear lo our great-prandchildren a trilling encumbrance, which mighl easily be paid off in a year or two, — many people...nothing; but this we say — If any person had told •he Parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720, that in 1830 the wealth... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam, — that our debt, vast as it seems to us, «ill appear to our great-grandchildren a trifling encumbrance,...— many people would think us insane. We prophesy nolhing ; but this we say — If any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity and terror... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...seems to us, will appear to our great grand-children a trifling incumbrance, which might be easily paid off in a year or two— many people would think us insane. Yet, if any person had told the parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...house ; that there will be ho highways but rail-roads, no travelling but by steam ; that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grand-children...year or two, many people would think us insane. We prophecy nothing ; but this we say — If any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...house ; that there will be no highways but rail-roads, no travelling but by steam ; that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grand-children...a trifling encumbrance, which might easily be paid oflf in a year or two, many people would think us insane. We prophecy nothing ; but this we say —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...every house; that there will be no highways but rail-roads, no travelling but by steam; and our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grandchildren...think us insane. We prophesy nothing; but this we say—If any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...every house ; that there will be no highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam : and our debt, -colonel in the British army, and in 1755 he again sailed for Asia. The first service in 172C, that in 1830 the walth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams ; that the annual revenue... | |
 | 1852 - 784 pages
...that our debt, vast as it seems to ua, will appear to our great grand-children a trilling iucumbrance, which might easily be paid off in a year or two. —...think us insane. We prophesy nothing; but this we sny, if any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity and terror after the crash in 1720,... | |
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