Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 399
early opponents of therailway system, some of whose utterances appear very strangewhen read in the light of subsequent events. In 1825 theQuarterly Review wrote: The gross exaggeration of thepowers of the locomotive steam-engine, or, to speak more plain-ly, the steam-carriage, may delude for a… … GEORGE STEPHENSON. Early Notices of Steam as an Agent. 393 engine, to be told that they are in no danger of being sea-sickwhile they are on shore, that they are not to be scalded todeath nor drowned by the bursting of the boiler, and that theyneed not mind being shot by the scattered fragments, or…
