| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, • — who knows the simplest...could be persuaded to pay a visit to their proper country. There would be no fear of their ever returning to such a dull spot as this peninsula of Boston,... | |
| Joseph Gregory Martin - Banks and banking - 1871 - 116 pages
...little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "in a hilly country, where it was impossible... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 532 pages
...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet the work went on, the road was completed to Worcester in 1835, to Springfield in 1839, and to Albany... | |
| Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1881 - 808 pages
...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done ; but... | |
| Moses King - Springfield (Mass.) - 1884 - 464 pages
...a railroad from Boston to Albany was "a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable but at an expense...as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Capt. Marryatt, the celebrated English novelist, while riding by stage through Western Massachusetts,... | |
| William Sloane Kennedy - Railroads - 1884 - 298 pages
...weeks." Hence wet and muddy roads, and the inability of the farmers to draw their produce to the market. every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Similar incredulity was encountered by Grldley Bryant, when he was seeking aid to establish his Granite... | |
| Joseph Gregory Martin - Banks and banking - 1886 - 184 pages
...little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "ID a hilly country, where it wan impossible... | |
| Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1883 - 754 pages
...value of the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done; but they... | |
| Joel Cook - New England - 1889 - 302 pages
...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet it was built and prospered, and the great Commonwealth, to break its profitable monopoly, had afterward... | |
| Joel Cook - New England - 1889 - 302 pages
...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and, if practicable, every person of common sense knows it would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet it was built and prospered, and the great Commonwealth, to break its profitable monopoly, had afterward... | |
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