 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...less than the market 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. Indeed, a road of some kind from here to the heart of that beautiful satellite of our dusky planet... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Moses King - Springfield (Mass.) - 1884 - 464 pages
...little less than the market 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." Capt. Marryatt, the celebrated English novelist, while riding by stage through Western Massachusetts,... | |
 | Joseph Gregory Martin - Banks and banking - 1886 - 184 pages
...; a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impractirable, but at an expense little less than the market value...1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "ID a hilly country, where it wan impossible to build railroads." Now, the cars of the " Air-Line "... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Fitchburg Historical Society - Fitchburg (Mass.) - 1897 - 332 pages
...little less than the market 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." When the idea of constructing the Old Colon}' railroad was first advanced a public meeting was held... | |
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... the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts;... 
