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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 36 RAILWAY TRAVELLING. Now there is nothing gives a man such spirits, (Leavening his blood as cayenne doth a curry, ) As going at full speed?no matter where its Direction be, so 'tis but in a hurry, And merely for the sake of its own merits; For the less cause there is for all this flurry, The greater is the pleasure of arriving At the great end of travel?which is driving. Byron's Don Juan. Assuredly we cannot now complain of the flight of Time, since we have so many inventions for treading hard upon his heels. The genius of man has, in many instances, gained the mastery over the elements: we no longer hear that The King said sail? and the wind said no; for now thump goes the steam-engine, and away glides the ponderous vessel, with the wind and tide waging war in her teeth. Ariel need no longer sing? Full fathom five thy father lies; for the diving-bell would speedily reach him, and all the sooner if his bones were made of coral. Where only the eagle once soared, Monk Mason now studies, he being one of the few authors who Into the heaven of heavens has presumed, (An earthly guest) and drawn empyreal air. What would our forefathers have thought had they been told, that within a few years we should be dragged at thetail of an engine at the rate of thirty miles an hour ? ? that we should be hurried through the very bowels of the hills up which they have so often panted, and led on only by fire and water, ? clear a deep darkness at which they would have quaked, ?a cavern that extended for a mile or two under the earth, and would be passed in twice the number of minutes. What would the highwayman of the olden time think now, could he arise and view that street of carriages, bearing inhabitants who would out-number the population of many an English ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217986601 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217986609 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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