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Here's a few quotations of various people with connection to Liverpool.
| DANIEL DEFOE (author) 1680 |
"Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain" |
| DANIEL DEFOE (author) 1724 |
Referring to Liverpool's second Town Hall.... "A very pretty Exchange" |
| JOHN WESLEY (methodist founder) 1775 |
"One of the neatest, best built towns I have seen in England." |
| DIONYSIUS LARDNER (one of Britian's leading authorities on steam engines) 1835 |
When talking about the viability of transatlantic steamships.... "they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon" |
| CYRUS FIELD (pioneer of the first transatlantic cable) 1856 |
When pursuading a potential investor (who liked to breed big dogs) to buy
shares in the venture for a transatlantic cable, they were asked if they could imagine
a dog so big it stretched from England to the United States.... "the project of which I've spoken and tried to interest you in is essentially just such a dog. If you pinch his tail in Liverpool, he'll bark in New York." |
| JULES VERNE (science fiction writer) 1865 |
When talking about space travel.... "In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut-up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York." |
| FELICIEN DE MYRBACH (artist) 1898 |
".... if Liverpool did not exist, it would have to be invented." |
| AUGUSTUS JOHN (artist) 1900 |
"This town is full of Germans, Jews, Welsh, Irish and Dutch; it has its fine sides and the docks are wondrous." |