 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 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... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1906 - 362 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...politeness veiling its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 8. "At length, the day arrived when the experiment was to be put in operation. To me it was a most... | |
 | George Iles - 1912 - 538 lehte
...but endless repetition of ' Fulton's Folly.' 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." Chancellor Livingston's estate on the Hudson was called Clermont, and its name was bestowed on Fulton's... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1919 - 424 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1923 - 360 lehte
...of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense; the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses and expenditures; 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... | |
 | 1937 - 410 lehte
...dull but endless repetition of "Fulton's folly." 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."1 Those who loaned him money to continue his plans on the steamboat stipulated that their... | |
 | United States. National Resources Committee. Science Committee - 1937 - 414 lehte
...dull but endless repetition of "Fulton's folly." 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.0 Those who loaned him money to continue his plans on the steamboat stipulated that their... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 lehte
...ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense; the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure; the dull but endless repetition of "the Fulton folly."...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. "At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | Reuven Brenner - 1990 - 260 lehte
...full but endless repetition of "Fulton's folly." 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, [as quoted in Stern (1937, p. 46)] Recently, Franklin (1986) has pointed out that although the submarine... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 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." Possibly Fulton and Fitch, like other inventors, may have exaggerated the public apathy and contempt;... | |
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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. 
