 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 220 lehte
...calculations of losses and expenditure; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton folly ! " Never did an encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. At length the day arrived when the experiment 20 was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | 1899 - 312 lehte
...who set themselves up as critics. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a cheering wish cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness...its reproaches. "At length the day arrived when the new steamboat was to be tried. To me it was a momentous and interesting occasion. I invited my friends... | |
 | 1899 - 312 lehte
...who set themselves up as critics. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a cheering wish cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness...its reproaches. "At length the day arrived when the new steamboat was to be tried. To me it was a momentous and interesting occasion. I invited my friends... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1899 - 402 lehte
...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 but...politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches." 299 ELI WHITNEY 11. Useful Inventions — Perhaps no country in the world has been more distinguished... | |
 | 1900 - 424 lehte
...uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull,...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | James Burnley - 1902 - 452 lehte
...this painful period, Fulton wrote, " The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." And even when, in 1812, his Clermont, the first steamer in the world that came to be engaged in carrying... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1902 - 406 lehte
...that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull,...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." The boat which Fulton was building while the wiseacres wagged their heads and prophesied disaster,... | |
 | Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth - 1902 - 250 lehte
...wise calculation of losses and expenditures. Nothing was heard but the endless repetition of 'Fulton's Folly.' " Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. Robert Pulton. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches. "At length... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - 332 lehte
...committed suicide. Robert Fulton tells us that during the entire time he was building his steamboat: "Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope or a warm wish cross my path." The steam engine cost Watt almost martyrdom. He said: "The struggles I have had with natural difficulties... | |
 | 1904 - 584 lehte
...that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull but...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." It may be that the inventor was pessimistic in regard to the matter, but it is certainly true that... | |
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The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly. 
