 | 1857 - 780 pages
...stated the conviction to some of his friends that " the time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot," although he feared he might not live to see that day. He was permitted to sec it, aud to mix in THE... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...the Great Highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on...will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to sec the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how slow all human progress... | |
 | 1858 - 812 pages
...the great highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on...will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how slow all human progress... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...the Great Highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on...will come to pass as sure as we live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how CHAP. VIII. STOCKTON... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 350 pages
...the great highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on...foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable obstacles that will have to be encountered. But what I have1 said will come to pass, as sure as I live.... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 346 pages
...travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable obstacles that will have to be encountered. But what I have said will corne to pass, as sure as I live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - Biography - 1861 - 464 pages
...highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a workingman to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable obstacles that will have to be encountered. But what I have said will come to pass, as sure as I live."... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 552 pages
...king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel upon a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great...but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 792 pages
...subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel upon a railway tlian to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties that will have to lie encountered ; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live... | |
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... will go by railway, and railroads will become the Great Highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. 
