 | John Warner Barber - 1860 - 478 lehte
...either with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settledcast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the force of the lamentation of the poet —... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 lehte
...either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the force of the lamentation of the poet, Truths would you teach to save a sinking land, All shun, none... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 lehte
...either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. 1 felt the force of the lamentation of the poet, Truths would you teach to вате a sinking land,... | |
 | A. B. Blackie - 1861 - 376 lehte
...degradation. I then could often unite, in my expressions of sorrow, with the poet in their fullest force — " Truths would you teach to save a sinking land, All shun, none listen, and few understand." The tale which I will now relate is the career of a youth — a surpassing... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 lehte
...anything to do with so ridiculous a scheme, as they thought. " My friends," says Fulton, " were civil, but shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, — 1 Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none iiicl you, and few understand.'... | |
 | 1866 - 68 lehte
...York either with indifference or contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building yard while the boat was in progress, I often... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 lehte
...either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...force of the lamentation of the poet, — " Truths 66 would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none aid you, and few understand." tf. As I had... | |
 | 1867 - 88 lehte
...York either with indifference or contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled MSt of incredulity on their countenances. As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building... | |
 | Charles Clement Cotterill - 1868 - 380 lehte
...— indifference or contempt. They regarded it as the work of a visionary. My friends were civil, but shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...lamentation of the poet, — ' Truths would you teach, to gave a sinking land, All shuu, none aid you, and few understand.' ' As I had occasion to pass daily... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 448 lehte
...either with indifference, or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations,...settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was... | |
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When, said he, I was building my first steam-boat at New York, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my... 
