A Letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. President of the Board of Trade: On Railway LegislationG.W. Nickisson, 1844 - 57 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 28 - The injurious effect of the railway system upon the poorer class of passengers will be more severely felt in proportion as other means of cheap travelling by stage coaches, carriers' carts, and waggons, are gradually superseded.
الصفحة 36 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
الصفحة 55 - I have the honour to be, Sir, with the utmost respect, Your most obedient and most humble servant, GB RODNEY.
الصفحة 31 - It is time, too, that the country should pay such tribute as is due to those skilful and bold railway speculators who, avowing private wealth to be their aim and motive of exertion, seek indeed to reap what they...
الصفحة 15 - ... deposited in the offices of the clerks of the peace for the several counties, seems sufficient evidence to identify the land taken.
الصفحة 30 - ... would be made ; it has already been spoken of, and would be as just and as useful a topic for popular oratory as the present one. Travellers are carried quicker than ever, and the cry is, make the railway companies run their trains faster. Passengers are conveyed more comfortably than ever, •\nd people say, make the cheap carriage as comfortable as the dear one.
الصفحة 1 - The capitalists of Lancashire were not men to stand still when this new world of enterprise was discovered.