 | Samuel Salt - 1848 - 176 էջ
...independent coarse, — he had assented to none. (A laugh.) He hod known such doings, that he declared he would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar...safe, and, of the two classes, he thought the former the more respectable." (Laughter.) Maximum Charges allowed by Railway Acts passed in 1846.— No. 2l.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 էջ
...to which I have been accustomed from my childhood." Colonel Sibthorpe even went so far as to declare that he " would rather meet a highwayman, or see a...two classes he thought the former more respectable ! " Railways had thus, like most other great social improvements, to force their way against the fierce... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 էջ
...to which I have been accustomed from my childhood." Colonel Sibthorpe even went so far as to declare that he " would rather meet a highwayman, or see a...two classes he thought the former more respectable ! " Railways had thus, like most other great social improvements, to force their way against the fierce... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1858 - 604 էջ
...to which I have been accustomed from my childhood." Colonel Sibthorpe even went so far as to declare that he " would rather meet a highwayman, or see a...burglar on his premises, than an engineer ; he should be mneh more safe, and of the two classes, he thought the former more respectable ! " Railways had thus,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 էջ
...while grazing. Colonel Sibthorpe openly declared his hatred of these " infernal railroads," and said that he " would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer ! " Mr. Berkeley, the member for Cheltenham, at a public meeting in that town, re-echoed Colonel Sibthorpe's... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - 792 էջ
...new-fangled roads." Colonel Sibthorpe openly declared his hatred of the " infernal railroads," and said that he " would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar -on his premises, than an engineer ! " Mr. Berkeley, the member for Cheltenham, at a public meeting in that town, re-echoed Colonel Sibthorpe's... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 432 էջ
...Colonel Sibthorp, indeed, to the last, was staunch against ' those infernal railroads ;' declaring that ' he would rather meet a highwayman or see a...should be much more safe ; and of the two classes he regarded the former as the more respectable.' In 1840 Stephenson settled at Tapton Hall, near Chesterfield,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 530 էջ
...new-fangled roads." Colonel Sibthorpe openly declared his hatred of the " infernal railroads," and said that he "would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer !" Mr. Berkeley, the member for Cheltenham, at a public meeting in that town, re-echoed Colonel Sibthorpe's... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1868 - 158 էջ
...headed the hostility, you cannot wonder that their dependants carried it on. One gentleman declared he would rather meet a highwayman or see a burglar on his premises than an engineer ; and of the two classes he thought the former the more respectable ! Widows complained of damaged... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - 520 էջ
...roads." Colonel Sibthorpe openly declared his hatred of the " infernal railroads," and said that be "would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer!" Mr. Berkeley, the member for Cheltenham, at a public meeting in that town, re-echoed Colonel Sibthorpe's... | |
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would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer ; he should be much more safe, and of the two classes he thought the former more respectable... 
