 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...new vehicle. The 'language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses...of the Fulton folly. Never did a single encouraging remark,.a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its... | |
 | 1834 - 116 pages
...FnltonFolly!" " Never," says that martyr of ingratitude, " 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." Even when the day of trial came — that day so brilliant in the scientific records of the West, when... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...Rare a pinking land, "All shun, none aid you, and few understand." "The loud laugh often rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses...dull, but endless repetition of the "Fulton Folly:" »nd e»en when the boat moved and the experiment succeeded—"All (says he) were still incredulous:... | |
 | Commerce - 1837 - 202 pages
...The language was uniformly that of scorn, or snrier» or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses...expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton FoUy. 13. "Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...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." In spite of this painful discouragement, the boat was completed in August 1807. To continue his own... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - Steam-navigation - 1840 - 210 pages
...scheme. 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...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most trying... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Middle Atlantic States - 1840 - 302 pages
...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." Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright iiope, or a warm wish, cross my path. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made.... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1841 - 412 pages
...expense, the dry jest, the wise calculations of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetitions of the Fulton Folly. Never did a single encouraging...path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its remarks or hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be brought into... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense ; with 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. 4. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetitions of the Fulton Folly. Never did asingle encouraging remark, a bright hope or a warm wish cross...path. Silence itself was but politeness veiling its remarks or hiding its reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be brought into... | |
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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." Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. 
