 | Alexander Dwight Anderson - 1877 - 236 halaman
...close of the ceremony of breaking ground, Mr. Carroll said, " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the...Declaration of Independence, if even second to that." * This was the beginning of the present Baltimore and Ohio road. Ever since then railways have been... | |
 | Alexander Dwight Anderson - 1877 - 234 halaman
...close of the ceremony of breaking ground, Mr. Carroll said, " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the...Declaration of Independence, if even second to that." * This was the beginning of the present Baltimore and Ohio road. Ever since then railways have been... | |
 | Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works - 1886 - 242 halaman
...the ceremony of breaking ground, Mr. Carroll said : — " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the...Declaration of Independence, if even second to that." * It has recently been slated that as early as 1809 an experimental railroad track, 180 fcet in length,... | |
 | Central Pacific Railroad Company - 1887 - 478 halaman
...surviving signer of the Declaration ot Independence, he said : " I consider this among the most important acts' of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, even if second to that." The boldest thinker living at the turning of the first shovelful of earth... | |
 | John Moses - 1892 - 880 halaman
...spadeful of dirt upon its track, with prophetic vision remarked: "I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the...Declaration of Independence, if even second to that." upon the 23 miles of this road completed by 1830, horses at first used as the motive power, because... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 516 halaman
...struck the spade into the ground with a firm hand, he said, " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if second even to that." 254. The First American Locomotive ; the Road opened ; the Race. — The first... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 528 halaman
...struck the spade into the ground with a firm hand, he said, " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if second even to that." 254. The First American Locomotive; the Road opened; the Race. —The first locomotive... | |
 | Alexander Hogg - 1897 - 126 halaman
...July 4, 1828, the day on which the first stone was laid, saying: "I consider this among the important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if second even to that." The first : To utilize locomotive power, Peter Cooper having placed the first... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 364 halaman
...of Carrollton took up the first sod, he solemnly said : " I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence." Among the bystanders were educated men, who foresaw what an advantage railroads would be to our country.... | |
 | Charles Morris, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Isaac Thorne Johnson - 1900 - 538 halaman
...Independence, who remarked, in so doing, that he considered this among the most important acts of his life, "second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if second to that." It is also to be noted that this era marks the beginning of that social movement which... | |
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I consider this among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if even second to that. 
