 | 1875 - 884 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accurajy be put into money; but it would not be at all over-estimating...money the nation gains at least what is equivalent to ten per cent, on all the capital expended on railways. It follows that, whenever a railway can be made... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1875 - 870 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot wiih any accuracy be put into money ; but it would not be at all over-estimating...proprietors, for they did not embark in these undertakings wilh a view to the national gain, but for the expected proht to themselves. Yet it is as well it should... | |
 | 1875 - 348 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accuracy be put into money ; but it would not be at all overestimating...money the nation gains at least what is equivalent to ю per cent, on all the capital expended on railways. I do not urge this on the part of railway proprietors,... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - 1875 - 360 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accuracy be put into money ; but it would not be at all over-estimating this question to * Bristol Meeting, August 1875. Sir John Hawkshaw's Views. 161 say that in time and money the nation... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 908 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot, with any accuracy, be put into money ; but it would not be at all over-estimating...of railway proprietors, for they did not embark in those undertakings with a view to the national gain, but for the expected profit to themselves. Yet... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1892 - 596 lehte
...the saving in. time. The benefits under this head defy calculation, and cannot, with any accuracy, be put into money. But it would not be at all over-estimating...equivalent to 10 per cent, on all the capital expended." He argued from this that even where a railway would only yield a small dividend to its proprietors,... | |
 | 1876 - 806 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accuracy be put into money; but it would not be at all over-estimating...that in time and money the nation gains at least what u equivalent to ten per cent, on all the capital expended on railways. It follows that, whenever a... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - 1912 - 552 lehte
...from the saving of time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accuracy be put into money ; but it would not be at all over-estimating...money the nation gains at least what is equivalent to 1o per cent on all the capital expended on railways." Sir John Hawkshaw, it will be seen, arrived at... | |
 | 1876 - 1194 lehte
...from the saving in time. The benefits under that head defy calculation, and cannot with any accuracy be put into money ; but it would not be at all over-estimating...undertakings with a view to the national gain, but for the expected profit to themselves. Yet it is as well it should be noted, for railway proprietor« appear... | |
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... Islands now produce, or rather save to the nation, a much larger sum annually than the gross amount of all the dividends payable to the proprietors, without at all taking into account the benefit arising from the saving in time. The benefits under... 